• when British mosaicist Elaine M Goodwin and three fellow artists founded an exhibiting group in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word "mosaic" due to its negative perception in the art world?
• Raquel Forner was one of the earliest fine artists to portray scenes of outer space?
• Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel won a medal as a fine artist in Paris before becoming a children's book illustrator (example pictured)?

Facts on topics related to Fine art

Performing arts

• Ash Lawn-Highland, the former home of U.S. President James Monroe, has been transformed into a 535-acre working farm, museum, and site for the performing arts?
• library@esplanade is Singapore's first public library for the performing arts?
• Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts?

Sculpture

• 2009 National Indigenous Art Award winner Danie Mellor once created a sculpture using ceramics, kangaroo skin, synthetic eyeballs, and stuffed birds?
• English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
• painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
• Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por created her 2006 work Seeds (pictured), situated at the National Museum of Singapore, from sandstone excavated during the Museum's redevelopment?
• British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
• Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points?
• Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia?
• Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare, Zimbabwe, before turning to sculpture full-time?
• Tori Busshi, a Japanese artist, most likely learned to sculpt while working as a saddle maker?
• Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor hired by the Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts?

Dance

• Leonide Massine wrote the choreography and the libretto for the ballet La Boutique fantasque and also danced in the lead role?
• according to Hindu mythology, the Tandava, a vigorous dance by Hindu god Shiva (pictured), is the source of the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution of the universe?
• the 1994 Guinness television advertisement Anticipation used jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible dance?
• the Swedish art collector Rolf de Maré (pictured) created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
• the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S.?
• the unconventionally named Boots Mallory was a teenage dancer and model who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1930s, largely as a result of her good looks?

Comics

• Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too?
• Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger's depiction of Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?

Drawing

• Jane Meutas (pictured) was drawn by Holbein and engraved by Bartolozzi?
• Minnie Evans received inspiration for her colored pencil drawings from her dreams?
• when asked if she wanted to focus on drawing, painting, or sculpting in art school, Ruth Duckworth said she wanted to study all of them just as Michaelangelo had?

Painting

• German painter Ludwig Thiersch influenced the debate over Byzantine and Western influences in modern Greek art, and painted church frescoes in Greece, Austria, Germany, England, and Russia?
• landscape and portrait painter Herbert A. Collins (pictured) made several portraits of naturalist John Muir as well as paintings of the evolution of Yosemite Valley?
• Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?
• New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?
• painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
• Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?
• Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works?
• Togolese painter and sculptor Paul Ahyi, who designed the flag of Togo, was inducted as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2009?
• British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
• American illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale?

Film

• 1940's The Mark of Zorro is often considered the best of the Zorro movies?
• actor Buck Taylor, though he still appears in mostly Western films, is also a prolific artist of the American West?
• Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later?
• character actor I. Stanford Jolley performed some 500 times on film or television but reportedly never received more than $100 for each screen appearance?
• film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames, she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture?
• film and television producer Alan Mruvka, founder of E! Entertainment, is now a real estate developer in Southern California?
• Jack Womack's novel Let's Put the Future Behind Us emerged from a failed Soviet-American film project of William Gibson that was to star the late rockstar Victor Tsoi?
• Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom tells the story of a British volunteer who joins the POUM militia and fights for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?
• make-up artist Howard Smit led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup and require film studios to credit make-up artists in a film's screen credits?
• American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead, into a movie before he finished reading it?

Printmaking

• printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
• in 1975, Tivi Etok, a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
• the printmaking technique of mezzotint was invented in 1642 by professional soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig von Siegen? (example mezzotint pictured)
• the Master of the Playing Cards (3 of Birds pictured) was a 15th century German engraver and the first major master in the history of printmaking?