Is This The Best Way to Recognize the Artists of Famous Paintings?


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If you haven’t studied art history, it can sometimes be a bit confronting walking around a museum or art gallery and trying to get your head around who painted what.

So with this in mind, here’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide as to how YOU can easily work out which artist painted what. Though some may fault them for being gross over-generalizations, these descriptions take the recognizable essence of each painter’s work and put it in very easy words that anyone can understand and, more importantly, remember.

Enjoy!

If everyone in the paintings has enormous asses, then it’s Rubens.

If all the men look like cow-eyed curly-haired women, it’s Caravaggio.

If everybody has some sort of body malfunction, then it’s Picasso.



If it’s something you saw on your acid trip last night, it’s Dali.

If the images have a dark background and everyone has tortured expressions on their faces, it’s Titian.

If the paintings have tons of little people in them but otherwise seem normal, it’s Bruegel.

If everyone – including the women – looks like Putin, then it’s van Eyck.

If the paintings have lots of little people in them but also have a ton of crazy bullshit, it’s Bosch.

If everyone looks like hobos illuminated only by a dim streetlamp, it’s Rembrandt.

If the painting could easily have a few chubby Cupids or sheep added (or already has them), it’s Boucher.



If everyone is beautiful, naked, and stacked, it’s Michelangelo.

If you see a ballerina, it’s Degas.

If everything is highly-contrasted and sharp, sort of bluish, and everyone has gaunt bearded faces, it’s El Greco.

If every painting is the face of a uni-browed woman, it’s Frida.

Dappled light but no figures, it’s Monet.

Dappled light and happy party-time people, it’s Renoir.

Dappled light and unhappy party-time people, then it’s Manet.

Lord of the Rings landscapes with weird blue mist and the same wavy-haired aristocratic-nose Madonna, it’s Da Vinci.

Excel sheet with coloured squares, it’s Mondrian.

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  1. Lets be true many gifts as a child and lucky to be a moon child too at birth not long ago I did meet up with a strange object called the eye ball of life I cant say loyal to every thing that comes to me since then grew to more about how we came here from the Oceans of life. Jessua was made to carry a pole not a cross. he reached to his destiny where he was taunted by the Romans who said to Jessua you want to preach with your hands we will help you, laughing then made the cross which they laid him and from the rose thorn bush placed on his head and raised him saying if you think you work with god then let him release you Laughing. I can tell you how the popes became what they are and how Rome was flooded leaving Noha to save the Animals of God.we were called femantals living on plants and fruits of life some were good some were poison but learned the ways of life what to eat and what not too.sex too was taken to fill the mans lust who ever she belonged too. and I don’t think it has changed only by law to this day.that’s why the interests lead to these paintings from their past life then.

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