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23 September 2005

 * …that was the first professional African-American and Native American sculptor was Edmonia Lewis?
 * …that the sōsaku hanga (creative prints) art movement in early 20th century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, was helped to revitalize ukiyo-e by applying Western concepts of art to the traditional Japanese style?
 * …that Thomas Gainsborough painted The Blue Boy mainly to prove to his chief rival Joshua Reynolds that it was possible to use the color blue as the central color of a portrait?
 * …that many culturally significant sites of Australian Aboriginal art have been gradually desecrated and destroyed by encroachment of early settlers and modern-day visitors?
 * …that the original historical meaning of the word cartoon is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further artwork?