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Feb 29, 2020

TIL In 1964, a Swedish art gallery displayed 4 paintings by unknown artist Pierre Brassau. Every single art critic praised the ‘avant-garde’ work- except one, who said, ‘only an ape could have done this’. In fact it was all a hoax by a journalist and 'Brassau’ was actually a 4-year-old chimpanzee.

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May 27, 2019

TIL in 1993, the experts of Manchester academy of fine arts liked a painting and included it in the exhibition.Later, they found out that its creator,Carly Johnson, was four years old.

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