It will be difficult for you to point out what artist painted a certain painting if you’re not a big fan of classical art. Now you don’t want to spend time guessing. Someone created a handy, albeit pretty hilarious, a guide on how to recognize famous painters by their paintings. It’s surprisingly accurate and wonderful.
Reddit user DontTacoBoutIt created a helpful guide. This will help you recognize famous painters by pointing out the distinctive style elements in their paintings. See this funny art guide in the gallery below from the Putin-like characters of Van Eyck to the chubby cupids of Boucher.
01 If Everyone – Including The Women – Looks Like Putin, Then It’s Van Eyck
Jan van Eyck
02 If Everyone Looks Like Hobos Illuminated Only By A Dim Streetlamp, It’s Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
03 If It’s Something You Saw On Your Acid Trip Last Night, It’s Dali
Salvador Dalí
04 If The Paintings Have Lots Of Little People In Them But Also Have A Ton Of Crazy Bulls#%t, It’s Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch
05 If Everybody Has Some Sort Of Body Malfunction, Then It’s Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
06 Lord Of The Rings Landscapes With Weird Blue Mist And The Same Wavy-Haired Aristocratic-Nose Madonna, It’s Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
07 Dappled Light And Unhappy Party-Time People, Then It’s Manet
Édouard Manet
08 If You See A Ballerina, It’s Degas
Edgar Degas
09 Dappled Light But No Figures, It’s Monet
Claude Monet
10 If Everyone Is Beautiful, Naked, And Stacked, It’s Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
11 Dappled Light And Happy Party-Time People, It’s Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
12 If The Images Have A Dark Background And Everyone Has Tortured Expressions On Their Faces, It’s Titian
Tiziano Vecelli
13 Excel Sheet With Coloured Squares, It’s Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
14 If All The Men Look Like Cow-Eyed Curly-Haired Women, It’s Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
15 If The Paintings Have Tons Of Little People In Them But Otherwise Seem Normal, It’s Bruegel
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
16 If Everyone In The Paintings Has Enormous Asses, Then It’s Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
17 If Every Painting Is The Face Of A Uni-Browed Woman, It’s Frida
Frida Kahlo
18 If Everything Is Highly-Contrasted And Sharp, Sort Of Bluish, And Everyone Has Gaunt Bearded Faces, It’s El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos – El Greco (“The Greek”)
19 If The Painting Could Easily Have A Few Chubby Cupids Or Sheep Added (Or Already Has Them), It’s Boucher
all images credit – flickerdart / François Boucher