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World Day of Amateur Painting
This day was dedicated to honor amateur painting as a way of exploration of human creativity.
 * March 25

March 25 as a World Day of Amateur Painting was first mentioned in a blog in Slovak daily newspaper SME by amateur painter Peter Stach. The day marks the first review of a painting by Henri Rousseau, Tiger in a Tropical Storm,written anonymously by Félix Vallotton in Gazette de Lausanne. Vallotton mentions Rousseau in an article reporting about the exposition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants.