It’s not always easy to recognize painters just by looking at their artworks. That’s where this illustrated guide comes in handy: with this simple cheat-sheet you will be able to impress your friends with your advanced knowledge about world’s best painters.
if it is a fabulous horse portrait, it is a Stubbs.
If everyone is baby-faced and obese, it’s a Botero
If all the faces look like a skinny mirror, it’s Modigliani.
If you think a painter has accidentally framed a drop cloth, it’s Jackson Pollack.
If it’s lots of skinny people coming out of factories it’s Lowry
If everyone is angel faced and bountiful then it’s Botticelli
If everything seems like beautiful square bath tiles, its Klimt
Stained glass, violence, and small goats with accusatory eyes, it’s Chagall.
:)))) I love the comments!!
If it looks like your baby child just spilled the contents of several cans of paint on the canvas, it’s Pollock.
If you find yourself aroused looking at a flower, it’s Georgia O’Keeffe.
Hilarious!
If it looks like an interesting modern carpet design, it’s Klee.
If it’s squared it’s Malevich.
If it seems like you’re looking through steamed up glasses, then it’s a Turner
Bosch….Now I know why my dishwasher doesn’t work.
So funny! However, it is a pity that Frida Kahlo is the only one referenced to not by her last name but~~~ Frida… just say Kahlo… people would never say- ahh then it’s Jan.
I love these! I would like to add to the Botero that their heads are too small.
If there’s an open boat, it’s Winslow Homer.
If it’s blocks of colour, and you’re thinking, ‘I could do that’, it’s Rothko
If it’s a dark and stormy night, it’s El Greco.
If there are fluffy clouds, a church spire, a horse and cart, a river/lake and lots of trees it’s Constable.
If there are blocks of color, it’s Partridge.
If there’s a jungle and a camoflagued tiger, it’s Rousseau.
if it’s lonely people in diners, cafes, and rooms and it feels like a film noir but is coloured, it’s a Hopper
if you feel like you need 3D-glasses to get things into focus it is a lionel feininger.
Whole thing is delightful and wonderfully accurate – the original piece AND all the additional comments!
Where was this info during my college art history survey classes?!
If it’s a naked woman in profile, aglow from the setting sun, in front of a grand and vast landscape, it’s Maxfirld Parrish
If it’s a monastic mandala with gold in it, it’s a Hildegard von Bingen
If it’s a face collage of someone you would not want to meet, it’s Hannah Hoch
If it’s got a man with a derby hat. it’s Magritte
If it looks like you need to put your glasses on, its’ Monet.
If it really looks like you, then put your glasses back on and get away from the mirror.
If it has burn holes in it, it’s Miro.
If it’s made up of dots it’s Serat (Serat dot), Mother and Child is Mary Cassat (MCs),
Cassatt* (spelling)
If the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie it’s Damien Hirst
If it’s totally weird as if resulting from designer drugs gone bad, then it is Trenton Doyle Hancock.
If it’s a pope whose face is melting like the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark, it’s Francis Bacon
Very funny very truthful.
It’s funny, but it actually helps match the painting with the painter. (Putin is so eerily accurate – wonder if he’s seen it?)
This is an necessary category.
This is an non-necessary category.