A Funny Guide Has Been Created By Someone On How To Recognize Famous Painters And It’s Surprisingly Accurate

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

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