Abstract
This article demonstrates that art may inspire statistical thinking in many ways, providing aesthetic pleasure, scientific enlightenment, and humorous excitement. Art can serve as a fine tool for educational purposes in statistics, presenting explicit illustrations of statistical concepts. The role of statisticians here is to find a hidden meaning of a masterpiece and to interpret it for students. This work gives some examples of such an interpretation of painting from a statistical perspective.
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