How to recognize the artists of paintings…

[kentuck]

http://themetapicture.com/how-to-recognize-the-artists-of-paintings/

From a Facebook page.

[pinboy3niner]

1. What is this, the Thursday Afternoon Challenge?

[LibertyLover]

2. I've got a Master's in Art History

and that was funny as hell - true, but funny. Thank you for posting.

[brer cat]

3. Funniest thing I've seen all day

...maybe all week. I love it!

[CTyankee]

4. stop. you're giving away my secrets!

not fair...

[kentuck]

6. I thought of you!

[CTyankee]

7. Oh, I'm glad. And I'm particularly glad you assist me in my evil plan to turn GD

into a BIG art appreciation forum!

[Mnemosyne]

5. "If everyone - including the women - looks like Putin, then it's van Eyck."

They really do!

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

8. Very funny.

I am left wondering how the author would help me identify works by Botticelli, Modigliani, or Egon Schiele, say. I mean, I could do it already, but I don't have a suitably amusing way to characterize these artists' styles. Dang, I wish I could be one of the Funny People.

It's interesting that so many acclaimed painters produced work which was almost as stylized as that of cartoonists.

[CTyankee]

10. well, why not do what this author did: pick out a distinctive feature of each artist you

mentioned and brainstorm funny ways to describe them, using hyperbole and with tongue firmly in cheek. Modigliani has a particularly singular style. Botticelli COULD be used, but would be a little more difficult (I would prefer using Fra Angelico, with his gold and pink...you see an angel wearing those colors and you know you what you got!). I'll get back to you on Schiele...maybe try Klimt instead...

Sounds like a fun project, actually...hmm...

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

12. Hmm.

"If it looks sort of like Klimt but maybe also like a concept design for a zombie movie, you're looking at a Schiele." Umm. "If it looks like Klimt but lacks gold paint and looks kinda scary, that's Schiele."

"Painting (sculpture) of a woman who has a giraffe's neck, a long box for a nose, maybe one eye blunged out? That's Modigliani!"

After trying this sort of thing for a short while, I generally transform into that Muppet pianist who bangs his head on the keyboard. "No, no, no! I'll never get it!"

See, I am just distinctly un-funny. I used to think I was pretty funny. Had loads of sketchbooks, full of cartoon work. I was hilarious. When I showed the work to other people, no one "got" it. Sad, sad. I am jealous of funny people.

[CTyankee]

14. I once did a Challenge here where I had a "message" about the painting or

as if the person depicted was speaking and it was kinda fun. The bust of Costanza by Bernini's "clue" was "Che cosa una raggazza di fare?" (what's a girl to do?). And so on. I'll find the title of the thread when I return home (I'm in L.A. now) and PM you, so you can see the whole OP). It was a lot of fun...some work, of course, but a really great little project! I'm thinking of doing another one in a few weeks like that one.

I will be doing another Challenge next Friday (not this Friday). It's on around 5 pm EST Friday afternoon in GD...

good luck!

[seabeyond]

9. If everyone including women look like Putin.... Then

That was fun. Thanks

[MerryBlooms]

11. Brlliant! hahahahaha!! *snorq'n'share n/t

[kwassa]

13. some more things to look for

If everyone looks skinny and stretched out, it is El Greco.

If the women look like muscular men, it is Michelangelo.

If it is women doing nothing in a room with soft light coming from the left side, it is Vermeer.

If the entire scene is lit by only one candle, it is Caravaggio.

If it is person staring directly at the viewer with a serious look, and sharp clear realism, it is Velasquez.

If it is small round people being tortured and shot and cut up by French troops, it is Goya.