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ART, FUNNY SEP 23, 2019

A Silly But Accurate


Guide On How To
Recognize Famous
Painters By Their Art (19
Pics)

Jonas Grinevičius and


Mindaugas Balčiauskas 84

Art history can be an incredibly complicated


topic and a really tough nut to crack for
anyone who hasn’t spent years upon years
learning the various intricacies and
subtleties needed to master the subject.

Luckily for all art lovers who just haven’t got


the time to understand all the ins and outs
of art history, the internet has provided
some hilarious and easy-to-grasp tips on
how to recognize the work of famous
painters. Here is a list of the funniest and
most accurate advice, so that you can
impress your friends and family the next
time you go to a museum or want to talk
about something impressive at the dinner
table. Scroll down, upvote your favorites,
and leave us a comment with your views
about art, classical paintings and what you
thought of these tips.

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#1 If Everyone – Including The


Women – Looks Like Putin, Then
It’s Van Eyck

Jan van Eyck


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Danish Dynomummy 4 years ago


Bwahaha, never even noticed before
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#2 If It’s Something You Saw On


Your Acid Trip Last Night, It’s Dali

Salvador Dalí
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glowworm2 4 years ago


Summed up perfectly.
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#3 If Everyone Looks Like Hobos


Illuminated Only By A Dim
Streetlamp, It’s Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn


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Chancey 4 years ago


This description is priceless!!!! LMAO
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The person behind most of the art tips is


Redditor DontTacoBoutIt. Unfortunately,
their account now appears to be dead, but
Bored Panda tried reaching out to them for
an interview nonetheless. The tips have
seen widespread success online, with over
8,800 upvotes and more than 1.17 million
views on Imgur.

The Redditor’s explanations about how well-


known artists can be recognized at a single
glance are as informative as they are blunt
and funny. For example, you can know
almost for sure that a painting was done by
Peter Paul Rubens if everyone’s naked and
they all have very large derrières (‘butts’, the
word means ‘butts’). And if everyone in a
painting looks a bit like Russia’s leader
Vladimir Putin, then you can bet your hat
that it’s probably Jan van Eyck’s work.

#4 If The Paintings Have Lots Of


Little People In Them But Also Have
A Ton Of Crazy Bulls#%t, It’s
Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch
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Natalia Sanchez 4 years ago


Or the artist who draws Where's Waldo?
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#5 If Everybody Has Some Sort Of


Body Malfunction, Then It’s
Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso


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Gabi X. 4 years ago


The _rst one is literally a dickface
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#6 Lord Of The Rings Landscapes


With Weird Blue Mist And The Same
Wavy-Haired Aristocratic-Nose
Madonna, It’s Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
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My O My 4 years ago
The little boy on her lap looks so bored
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So you can show off to your pals even more


at your next soirée, here are some more
facts to drop about Rubens and van Eyck
(besides talking about butts and Putin of
course).

A Flemish painter born sometime around


1380-1390, van Eyck is known as one of the
early innovators of Early Netherlandish
painting and one of the most important
representatives of what’s known as Early
Northern Renaissance art. As a master
painter, he was employed by John III the
Pitiless, the ruler of Holland and Hainaut, as
well as Philip the Good, the Duke of
Burgundy. Van Eyck wasn’t just a painter, he
also acted as a diplomat for Philip.

#7 If You See A Ballerina, It’s


Degas

Edgar Degas
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My O My 4 years ago
The upper one is lovely
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#8 Dappled Light And Unhappy


Party-Time People, Then It’s
Manet

Édouard Manet
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Kaisu 4 years ago


I would be unhappy too if I was trying to sit on the
bench and enjoy my alone time and some random
guy started hitting on me
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#9 If Everyone Is Beautiful, Naked,


And Stacked, It’s Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti


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Kaisu 4 years ago


I don't know why my comment was down voted?
I'm a queer woman myself, queer is a perfectly
normal academic word to use (there's queer
studies, queer literature studies, queer _lm
studies). Queer is simply an umbrella term like the
LGBT, only queer encompasses only sexualities
while LGBT encompasses gender identities as well.
I'm a queer woman and I'm attracted to women.
Michelangelo was a queer man and he was
attracted to men. The reason I don't use the word
homosexual is because he never speci_ed his
sexuality and I don't feel comfortable assigning a
speci_c sexuality for someone unless they have
speci_ed it themselves. Hopefully this clears it up
for some of you
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Meanwhile, Rubens (who was also a


Flemish painter) was born in 1577 and is
thought to be the most inLuential artist of
the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens was
a specialist in making portraits, landscapes,
altarpieces, and history paintings of
mythological and allegorical subjects.
Rubens was also a scholar and a diplomat
who was knighted by Philip IV of Spain and

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