Artistic Rebels
Artists who broke the rules of their age, from Caravaggio's brawls to Dalí's dreams, Frida's defiance and Warhol's soup cans.
- Surrealism
- Modern Art
- Creativity
- Rebellion
- Psychology
Some of the stories included
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Andy WarholAndy Warhol, the Pittsburgh-born illustrator who made Pop Art famous with 32 Campbell's Soup cans and turned fame itself into his subject.
The History of StuckismThe Stuckist art movement was born from an insult when Tracey Emin told co-founder Billy Childish his paintings were "stuck!"
The Mona Lisa HeistIn 1911 a handyman in a white smock took the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, and it stayed missing for 28 months.
J.M.W. Turner, the Painter of LightThe life of J.M.W. Turner, the Covent Garden barber's son who became Britain's great painter of light, storms and steam, and left his work to the nation.
The Story of CaravaggioThe life of the painter Caravaggio, whose violent life ended in 1610 after he killed a man and became a fugitive from Rome.
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Trial Behind the PaintingIn 1612 Artemisia Gentileschi endured torture to testify against her rapist, then painted Judith beheading a general.
Frida Kahlo: Paint, Pain, and PowerThe life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, from the 1925 bus crash that left her bedridden to the self-portraits that made her world-famous.
The Monuments MenIn 1943, the Allies formed a unit of 345 experts to protect Europe's cultural treasures from the Nazis.
The Boys Who Found LascauxOn September 8, 1940, 17-year-old Marcel Ravidat and his dog Robot found a cave of paintings hidden for millennia.
Kafka Asks His Friend to Burn EverythingKafka told Max Brod to burn his papers unread, and Brod instead published The Trial in 1925.
The Gardner Museum HeistTwo men dressed as police stole 13 works worth over $500 million from a Boston museum in 81 minutes, and none has come back.
Salvador Dalí — Madness, Ego, and SurrealismThe life of Salvador Dalí, the Spanish Surrealist painter: his family, his muse Gala, The Persistence of Memory, his break with the Surrealists and his museum in Figueres.
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