Similar artists. A simple way to distinguish the works of great artists. If people in beautiful clothes relax in nature - Watteau
A fun cheat sheet for artists(style cheat sheet here)
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A Brief Guide to Fine Arts
A long time ago, in my first year, we studied art history. The subject itself is terribly interesting, but the teacher is crap that you wouldn’t find with a flashlight during the day. As far as I know, there is not a single student who likes him. He gave lectures on Saturdays, from 8 in the morning until five minutes to five he stood at the door, and then locked it. That's all. If you didn’t make it before eight o’clock, you missed it, but too many passes mean great grief. Now I'll tell you why. All year he showed us slides of paintings, sculptures, mosaics and other things, ranging from cave paintings to Russian artists of the 80s. And he had all these slides in the form of postcards. Here's a pack.And at the end of the year, as usual, there is an exam. First two questions, and then additional execution on an individual basis. Based on the number of your absences per year (!), he took postcards out of the stack. At random, it was necessary to name the author and the title. Or at least the author, or at least the title. They quickly remembered the Mona Lisa and a couple of others, but something had to be done with the rest of the mulyon. Especially because everyone went to the retake already in a hurry. And so, in order to guess the authors, we in the group came up with a classification. And you know, in 97 cases out of a hundred it works! Still!
By remembering a few simple points, in a company that is not too close to ISO, you can be considered an expert, and in general.
1. If you see a dark background in the picture and all sorts of suffering on the faces, this is Titian.
The exception is this naked person with no signs of thought on her face. You can remember one. Venus, not Venus, but there is something venereal in her. 
2. If in the picture there are buttocks and cellulite even on men, don’t hesitate - it’s Rubens.
3. If the men in the picture look like hairy-eyed, curly-haired women or just Italian fagots, this is Caravaggio.
He generally painted women one and a half times. In the next picture there is a woman: Gorgonyan Medusa Arutyunovna. Why she looks like Jonidep is a mystery worse than Monalisa’s smile. 
4. If there are a lot of little people in the picture, this is Bruegel.
5. Many little people, little incomprehensible garbage - Bosch 
6. If you can easily add a couple of fat-assed cupids and sheep to the picture (or they are already there in various configurations), without disturbing the composition - these could be:
b) Watteau 
7. Beautiful, everyone is naked, and the figures are like those of bodybuilders after drying - Michelangelo.
8. You see a ballerina - you say Degas. If you say Degas, you see a ballerina.
9. Contrasting, harsh, and everyone has such skinny, bearded faces - El Greco.
10. If everyone, even the aunts, looks like Putin, it’s Van Eyck
11. Monet - spots, Manet - people
If the painting shows a ballerina, you are looking at a work by Edgar Degas. No matter how funny it may sound, in a nutshell you can describe the work of almost every artist. Yes, it will be a kind of manual for dummies, but art is a complex thing, so we’ll start small. How to learn to understand painting - in the “Cultural Investigation” section.
Everything is not as difficult as it seems. For example, the Flemish painter Rubens was very fond of painting plump women. But in fact, he is not the only one - his contemporaries also liked ladies with bodies. At the beginning of the 17th century, it was believed that volumetric shapes were an indicator of physical health and inner greatness. Today, such “beauties” with appetizing curves would be sent to the gym.
Here's another example. If you see bizarre images that look like something out of a dream, rest assured that this is Salvador Dali. Some art critics call him a genius, others - a hack. Caricature artist Vladimir Melnikov explains: there are no difficulties in Dali’s technique, so his style can be easily copied.
“What is surrealism? Label whatever you want. Not a tiger, but another character flies, and not from a rifle, but from a cannon, and a small striped fly leads this procession. And there’s a blurry clock on the washing machine,” shared Vladimir Melnikov.
It turned out to be more difficult to copy the artist Marc Chagall. But it’s easy to draw a cartoon in his style. If you see figures hovering over a city, it’s definitely Chagall.
To ensure you don't get stuck in a world-class museum, here's another tip. If on the canvas you see muscular, handsome men with ideal forms, then you know - this is Michelangelo. The artist glorified the beauty of the body both on canvas and in marble. His famous David, created in the early 16th century, became the ideal of male beauty for many years.
But another Italian, Caravaggio, saw the ideal of male beauty in a completely different way. His representatives of the stronger sex are very similar to women. He chose appropriate poses for his heroes.
The famous Dutchman Rembrandt did not think about the beauty of his heroes. The artist painted realistic paintings - the faces of the characters can be compared to flashes of light against the background of the surrounding darkness. Therefore, if the hero looks like a tramp, illuminated by a dim street lamp, then rest assured - this is Rembrandt.
There is also a simple answer to the eternal question of how the impressionist Claude Monet differs from the impressionist Edouard. If you see blurry outlines of nature, this is Claude Monet, if you see people against the backdrop of nature, this is Edouard Manet.
“Claude Monet is an artist classified as impressionist; he painted mostly landscapes and water lilies. If you see realistic images painted with broad strokes, and at the same time it seems to you that the image is flat, this is Edouard Manet,” explained art critic, senior researcher at MMOMA Olga Turchina.
The style of the artist Hieronymus Bosch cannot be confused with anything. He lived in the 15th century in the Netherlands and remains one of the most mysterious painters. If everything is mixed up in the picture: people, animals, monsters, then this is Bosch.
Of course, any art critic will say that advice on how to distinguish artists at first glance is like a joke. To really understand the works of famous masters, you need to often go to museums and read more than one book.
How to distinguish different artists. Funny, but true!I’ll be honest: I don’t know the author. If anyone can tell me
his name - I will be very grateful! So, the story itself.
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A long time ago, in my first year, we studied art history. The subject itself is terribly interesting, but the teacher is crap that you couldn’t find with a flashlight during the day. As far as I know, there is not a single student who likes him. He gave lectures on Saturday at 8 a.m., and stood at the door at five to five, and then locked it. And everyone who didn’t make it before eight is given a pass. And many absences are a big grief. Now I’ll tell you why: all year he showed us slides of paintings, sculptures, mosaics and other things, ranging from cave paintings to Russian artists of the 80s. And he had all these slides in the form of postcards. Here is such a pack. And at the end of the year, as usual, there is an exam. First, two questions, and then an additional execution on an individual basis, according to the number of your passes in a year (!) He took postcards out of a pack. Out of order. And it was necessary to name the author and the title, or at least the author, or at least the title. They all memorized Mona Lisa and a couple of others quickly, but something needs to be done with the rest of the mullion, especially since everyone went to the retake for the first time. And so, to guess the author, we in the group came up with a classification. And you know, in 97 cases out of a hundred, it works! Still!
By remembering a few simple points, in a company not too close to fine art, you can be considered an expert in general.
So:
1. If you see a dark background in the picture and all sorts of suffering on the faces, this is Titian.
The exception is this naked-assed person with no signs of thought on her face. You can remember one. Venus, not Venus, but there is something venereal in her.
2. If the picture shows buttocks and cellulite even on men, don’t hesitate - it’s Rubens.
3. If the men in the picture look like hairy-eyed, curly-haired women or just Italian fagots, this is Caravaggio.
He generally drew the woman one and a half times. The next picture is of a woman. Gorgonyan Medusa Arutyunovna. Why she looks like Johnny Depas is a mystery purer than the smile of Mona Lisa
4. If there are a lot of little people in the painting - Bruegel
5. A lot of little people + little incomprehensible garbage - Bosch
6. If you can easily add a couple of fat-assed cupids and sheep to the picture (or they are already there in various configurations), without disturbing the composition - these can be
a) Bush
B) Watteau
7. Beautiful, everyone is naked and the figures are like those of bodybuilders after drying - Michelangelo
8. You see a ballerina - you say Degas. You say Degas - you see a ballerina
9. Contrasting, harsh, bluish and everyone has such skinny bearded faces - El Greco
A course of lectures on the history of art has never been so simple and understandable - our short tips on how to recognize an artist by the style of a painting quickly and easily will help even the most distant people from painting to become specialists and connoisseurs.
We recognize the name of the artist by the style of his painting:
Cave painting is the first manifestation of the creativity of our distant ancestors recorded in history, who over thousands of years have gone from naive cave paintings to contemporary art of the twenty-first century. During this time, civilization was enriched with hundreds of great artists who created tens of thousands of imperishable masterpieces of fine art - graphics, sculpture, painting, and since the end of the nineteenth century, also photographs.Secrets of famous artists
Even professionals have to study for years in order to navigate without errors in the huge number of museum exhibits and masterpieces of private collections, but such knowledge is simply not available to mere mortals. Or rather, it was like that before. And now, thanks to the simple instructions presented below, every amateur will be able to feel like a connoisseur of painting from the beginning of centuries to the present and will learn to recognize the artist by the picture, style, characteristic features and creative secrets. Of course, the method is not ideal, it is exaggerated and allows for exceptions, but for all its humorous and entertaining nature, it is quite accurate and witty.Salvador Dali
The eccentric, madman and genius Salvador Dali went so far in his creative search that his works cannot be confused with other representatives of surrealism. The Spanish artist is not the founder of the genre, but truly became its ideal illustration both in art and in life.
Caravaggio (Michelangelo da Caravaggio)
The Italian erotomaniac loved women and men, girls and boys with girlish features. Caravaggio's effeminate men are the name given to the artist's characteristic style, in whose eyes male and female beauty are interchangeable and sometimes indistinguishable.
Claude Monet
Paintings of nature in rural and urban France, painted with quick, sharp strokes and bright, brilliant colors - this is the brilliant impressionist Monet.
Michelangelo
The ideal embodiment of a Renaissance man - Buonarroti glorified his name in sculpture, architecture, philosophy and, of course, painting, where Michelangelo's style is physically attractive, beautiful, pumped-up people who do not hesitate to expose their muscular torso.
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Hieronymus Bosch
Little people in the face of a total apocalypse. Religious texts, apocrypha, myths and legends fascinated Bosch, who transferred his thoughts to the artistic canvas, where infernal torment, hellish executions, a biblical Old Testament nightmare and a universal catastrophe awaited humanity.
Piet Mondrian
The Dutch abstract artist died long before the advent of Excel spreadsheets, but his works look exactly like an accountant's desk.
Edgar Degas
The French impressionist adored not only painting, but also ballet, which Degas regularly attended and transferred to his canvases. Edgar Degas was interested in various themes and motifs, but his main artistic imprint on history forever remained ballerinas.
Pieter Bruegel
The most complex plots, compositions consisting of multiple small figures - this is Bruegel’s style, which is structurally similar to Bosch, but much more optimistic, cheerful, cheerful and does not promise the apocalypse with every work of art.
Frida Kahlo
The famous Mexican woman spent most of her life suffering from back pain after a terrible car accident in her youth. She was admired by the great artist and part-time husband Diego Rivera, and Frida herself admired her eccentric person, who left behind dozens of self-portraits, where the viewer’s eyes are immediately caught by the models’ fused eyebrows. This is not an exaggeration - Frida Kahlo really was the owner of luxurious hair above her eyes, she was proud of it and always tried to emphasize it not only in herself, but also in other models.
Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh spent the key years of his short but extremely stormy work in the midst of rural nature and severe heat, so his paintings are full of bright spots, which can be called a riot of flowers and colors. Vincent Van Gogh especially loved to fill the canvas with yellow flowers, as in the famous Sunflowers.
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Antoine Watteau
Jean Antoine Watteau's creative peak occurred in the first decades of the eighteenth century at the court of the French king, where aristocrats loved to dress up in colorful, lush clothes - these are the people you can find in almost all of Watteau's works.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso lived a very long life, during which his artistic style underwent dramatic changes. But still, his main achievement in painting is cubism, so Picasso is all about deformed, bizarre shapes and models.
Titian Vecellio
The background is in dark colors, the blessed man or the holy martyr in the foreground are paintings by Titian.
Rembrandt
Dull, yellow, gloomy tones and a man with a painful, sad, tired look - a painting by Rembrandt.
Francois Boucher
The artist François Boucher lived and worked in the mid-eighteenth century, but dealt primarily with biblical and ancient subjects, plump cupids in a variety of plot intricacies - Boucher's style.
El Greco
El Greco is all about harsh paintings, gaunt faces and religious themes.
Peter Rubens
The great Flemish artist Peter Rubens was a slender, lean man who, in his artistic quest, found the opposite of his own motifs - obese men, fat ladies with kilograms of cellulite and chubby babies. Women of Rubens is the name given to the style of the Fleming, whose paintings cannot be confused with others.
Jan van Eyck
The early Dutch artist and the modern Russian politician are separated by half a millennium of history and are united by canvases where Jan van Eyck persistently painted people strangely similar to Vladimir Putin.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The impressionist looked at the world positively, so Renoir’s paintings are light colors and contented, happy faces.
Edouard Manet
Another founder of impressionism, Edouard Manet, perceived the universe much less positively, which is why his paintings are full of gloomy colors, dull contours and sad people.
Leonardo da Vinci
The great Florentine is perhaps the most famous artist in the history of mankind, so even people far from art know the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. But if we describe da Vinci's work in one sentence, we can say - epic landscapes in the background and beautiful men and women in the foreground.
There is an opinion that not only writers rewrite the same book, directors rewrite a film, and artists rewrite a painting. Therefore, having studied the entire gallery of the selected painter, we can isolate his characteristic style-forming features, thanks to which the Historian derived the form - how to recognize an artist by the style of his paintings.
And all because this issue has not lost its relevance to this day. The essence of this method was to remember several starting points. It was actually invented in order to pass an exam, but it worked so well that by using this trick one could be considered an intellectual connoisseur of painting.
And here is the story itself.
“A long time ago, in my first year, we studied art history. The subject itself is terribly interesting, but the teacher is crap that you wouldn’t find with a flashlight during the day. As far as I know, there is not a single student who likes him.
He gave lectures on Saturdays, from 8 in the morning until five minutes to five he stood at the door, and then locked it. That's all. Didn't make it before eight - a pass, and many passes - a great grief.
Now I'll tell you why. All year he showed us slides of paintings, sculptures, mosaics and other things, ranging from cave paintings to Russian artists of the 80s. And he had all these slides in the form of postcards. Here's a pack.
And at the end of the year, as usual, there is an exam. First two questions, and then additional execution on an individual basis. Based on the number of your absences per year (!), he took postcards out of the stack.
Especially because everyone went to the retake already in a hurry. And so, in order to guess the authors, we in the group came up with a classification. And you know, in 97 cases out of a hundred it works! Still!"
Here's part of that classification:
