How to distinguish between different artists. Funny but true!

To be honest, I don't know the author. If someone tells
his name - I will be very grateful! So, the story itself.
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A long time ago, in my freshman year, we had art history. The subject itself is terribly interesting, but the teacher is shit, which you won’t find in the afternoon with a lantern. As far as I know, there is not a single student who likes him. He gave lectures on Saturday, at 8 in the morning, and from five to five stood at the door, and then closed it with a lock. And everyone who did not make it to eight - a pass. And a lot of passes - a big grief. Now I'll tell you why: all year long he showed us slides of paintings, sculptures, mosaics and other things, from rock art to Russian artists of the 80s. And all these slides were in the form of postcards. Here is the taco pack. And at the end of the year, as usual, the exam. First, two questions, and then an additional execution on an individual basis, according to the number of your passes for the year (!) He took out postcards from 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. Everyone remembered the Mona Lisa and a couple more quickly, but something needs to be done with the rest of the mule, especially because everyone went to retake it once. And so, in order to guess the author, we in the group deduced 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 arts, you can pass for 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 bare-assed person with no signs of thought on her face. One can be remembered. Venus, not Venus, but there is something venereal in it.

2. If in the picture there are assholes and cellulite even in men - do not hesitate - this is Rubens.

3. If in the picture the men look like hairy curly-haired women or just like Italian faggots, this is Caravaggio.

Baba he generally drew one and a half times. The next picture is of a woman. Gorgonyan Meduza Arutyunovna. Why she looks like Johnny Depa is a mystery worse than Mona Lisa's smile

4. If there are a lot of little people in the picture - Brueghel

5. Lots of little people + little obscure stuff - Bosch

6. If you can easily add a couple of fat-assed cupids and lambs to the picture (or they are already there in various configurations), without violating the composition, these can be
a) Bush

B) Watteau

7. Beautiful, all naked and figures like 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

I keep running into problems photo search or paintings. For example, such a situation, clients want to order a portrait based on a historical painting or painting reproduction. They have a file they found on the internet. They don't know the title or the author, but they want to know. And they want to know what kind of picture hangs at their house. It always happens that this file found by customers is of very poor quality - small in size or the file itself is simply bad. It is necessary to quickly establish the name and author in order, firstly, to enlighten the customer and yourself, and secondly, to try to find a picture of at least average quality.

Real case. The customer wants to order the installation in this picture. Replace the face of this lady with the face of your friend. Then print on canvas measuring 40 cm by 50 cm, frame and present. She must like it.

montage on the picture

The file he brought in weighs 120 kV. In principle, not the worst case. Pictures were also printed from worse pictures. At prints on canvas all the pictures themselves are blurred and Jeep artifacts are not very noticeable. And if you clean it up, it will be great. But the client really wanted to know the author of the picture and the title. I want everything. To my shame, I had no idea who the artist was and who was depicted.

I had to use different services to search by photo.

1. http://www.tineye.com/ Excellent service. Convenient site. I've used it before but this time it's disappointing.

Here is the search result by photo: Or like this:

He found only 2 images. One is quite bad, and even framed. The second is just the same file that the customer brought. All sizes and parameters matched. But clicking on the links-sources found nothing. These are some blogs and forums.

2. http://www.google.ru/imghp?hl=ru&tab=wi A new, already relatively, service from Google. Never used it - never had to.

To enable search by photo, you need to click on the camera, a window for adding a file and a link will open and click “Search”. Everything is elementary.

The pattern search result was great!

Also stumbled upon a great site on search for similar photos. It is very convenient when you can replace the picture with another, but very similar. Before that, I only knew http://alipr.com, but he constantly gave out such utter bullshit with similar pictures that I gave up such searches. But I came across an excellent site for searching for similar photos - http://gallerix.ru/roster/. The result is not very impressive, but much better than the first site. You can check yourself.

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The 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 become specialists and connoisseurs.

We learn the name of the artist by the style of his painting:

Rock painting is the first recorded in history manifestation of the creativity of our distant ancestors, who over thousands of years have gone from naive cave drawings to contemporary art of the twenty-first century. During this time, civilization has been enriched by hundreds of great artists who have created tens of thousands of imperishable masterpieces of fine art - graphics, sculpture, painting, and, since the end of the nineteenth century, photographs.

Secrets of famous artists

Even professionals have to study for years in order to navigate the huge number of museum exhibits and masterpieces of private collections without mistakes, and such knowledge is simply inaccessible to mere mortals. Or rather, it used to be like that. And now, thanks to the simple instructions below, every amateur will be able to feel like a connoisseur of painting from the beginning of the centuries to the present and learn to recognize the artist by painting, style, characteristics and creative secrets. Of course, the method is not ideal, exaggerated and allowing 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, who had girlish features. The effeminate men of Caravaggio is the name of the characteristic style of the artist, in whose eyes male and female beauty are interchangeable and sometimes indistinguishable.

Claude Monet

Pictures of the nature of rural and urban France, painted with quick, sharp strokes of 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 bare their muscular torso.

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Hieronymus Bosch (Jheronimus Bosch)

Little people in the face of a total apocalypse. Religious texts, apocrypha, myths and legends were extremely interesting for Bosch, who transferred his thoughts to an artistic canvas, where infernal torments, hellish executions, the biblical Old Testament nightmare and universal catastrophe awaited humanity.

Piet Mondriaan

The Dutch abstract artist died long before the advent of Excel spreadsheets, but his works look like an accountant's desktop.

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 in history forever remained ballerinas.

Pieter Bruegel

The most complex plots, compositions consisting of multiple small figures - this is Brueghel'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 spent most of her life suffering from back pain after a horrific car accident in her youth. She was admired by the great artist and part-time husband Diego Rivera, admired by her eccentric person and Frida herself, who left behind dozens of self-portraits, where the fused eyebrows of models immediately catch the eye of the viewer. This is not hyperbolization - Frida Kahlo really was the owner of luxurious vegetation above her eyes, she was proud of her and always tried to emphasize 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 fierce heat, so his paintings are full of bright spots, which can be called a riot of colors and colors. Vincent van Gogh was especially fond of filling the canvas with yellow flowers, as in the famous Sunflowers.

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Antoine Watteau

The creative peak of Jean Antoine Watteau came in the first decades of the eighteenth century at the court of the French king, where the aristocrats loved to dress up in colorful puffy clothes - these are the people you can find in almost all of Watteau's works.

Pablo Picasso 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 deformed bizarre forms and models.

Titian Vecellio (Tiziano Vecellio)

The background 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, dreary, tired look is a painting by Rembrandt.

Francois Boucher

The artist Francois Boucher lived and worked in the middle of the eighteenth century, but he dealt mainly with biblical and ancient subjects, chubby cupids in a variety of plot intricacies - Boucher's style.

El Greco

El Greco - these are harsh paintings, emaciated faces and religious themes.

Peter Rubens

The great Flemish artist Peter Rubens was a slender, thin man who, in his artistic search, found the opposite motif - obese men, fat ladies with kilograms of cellulite and chubby babies. The women of Rubens - this is the name of the style of the Fleming, whose paintings cannot be confused with others at all.

Jan van Eyck

Half a millennium of history separates the Early Netherlandish artist and the contemporary Russian politician and unite canvases where Jan van Eyck stubbornly painted people who look strangely like Vladimir Putin.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The impressionist looked at the world positively, so Renoir's paintings are light colors and happy happy faces.

Edouard Manet

Another founder of impressionism, Edouard Manet, perceived the universe much less positively, so 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 who are far from art know the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. But if you describe the work of da Vinci 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 picture. Therefore, having studied the entire gallery of the selected painter, we can isolate his characteristic style-forming features, thanks to which the Historian deduced a form - how to recognize the artist by the style of his paintings.

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A short guide to the fine arts

A long time ago, in my freshman year, we had art history. The subject itself is terribly interesting, but the teacher is shit, which you will not find during the day with a lantern. As far as I know, there is not a single student who likes him. He gave lectures on Saturday, from 8 in the morning and from five to five he stood at the door, and then closed it with a lock. And that's it. I didn’t have time until eight - a pass, and a lot of passes - a big grief. Now I'll tell you why. Throughout the year, he showed us slides of paintings, sculptures, mosaics and other things, ranging from rock art to Russian artists of the 80s. And all these slides were in the form of postcards. Here's a pouch.

And at the end of the year, as usual, the exam. First, two questions, and then an additional execution on an individual basis. According to the number of your passes for the year (!) He took out postcards from a pack. Randomly, and it was necessary to name the author and the title. Or at least the author, or at least the title. Everyone remembered the Mona Lisa and a couple more quickly, but something had to be done with the rest of the mule. Especially because everyone went to retake already on a razik. And so, in order to guess the authors, we in the group deduced 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 the art, you can pass for a connoisseur, 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. One can be remembered. Venus, not Venus, but there is something venereal in it.

2. If in the picture there are asses and cellulite even in men - do not hesitate - this is Rubens.

3. If in the picture the men look like hairy curly-haired bap or just like Italian faggots - this is Caravaggio.

He generally painted women one and a half times. In the next picture - a woman: Gorgonyan Meduza Arutyunovna. Why she looks like jonidepa is a mystery worse than Monalisa's smile.

4. If there are a lot of little people in the picture, this is Brueghel.

5. A lot of little people little incomprehensible garbage - Bosch

6. If you can easily add a couple of fat-assed cupids and lambs to the picture (or they are already there in various configurations), without violating the composition, these can be:

b) Watteau

7. Beautiful, all naked, and figures, like bodybuilders after drying - Michelangelo.

8. You see a ballerina - you say Degas. You say Degas - you see a ballerina.

9. Contrasting, harsh, and everyone has such skinny bearded faces - El Greco.

10. If everyone, even aunts, looks like Putin, this is van Eyck

11. Monet - spots, Manet - people

If the picture shows a ballerina, you see the work of Edgar Degas. No matter how ridiculous it may sound, in a nutshell you can describe the work of almost every artist. Yes, it will turn out to be a kind of manual for dummies, but art is a complicated thing, so we will start small. How to learn to understand painting - heading "Cultural investigation".

Everything is not as difficult as it seems. For example, the Flemish painter Rubens was very fond of painting puffy women. But in fact, he is not the only one - his contemporaries also liked the ladies in the body. At the beginning of the 17th century, it was believed that volumetric forms were an indicator of physical health and inner greatness. Today, such "beauties" with appetizing forms would be sent to the gym.

And here is another example. If you see bizarre images, as if from a dream, do not hesitate - this is Salvador Dali. Some art critics call him a genius, others call him a hack. Caricaturist Vladimir Melnikov explains: there are no difficulties in Dali's technique, so his style can be easily copied.

“What is surrealism? Arbitrarily reward 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 a blurry watch on the washing machine,” Vladimir Melnikov shared.

It turned out to be more difficult to copy the artist Marc Chagall. But drawing a cartoon in his style is easy. If you see figures hovering over some city, this is definitely Chagall.

So that you don't get stuck in a world-class museum, here's another tip. If on the canvas you see muscular handsome men with perfect shapes, then you should know that this is Michelangelo. The artist sang the beauty of the body both on canvas and in marble. His famous David, created at the beginning of the 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 the appropriate poses for his characters.

The famous Dutchman Rembrandt did not think about the beauty of his characters. The artist painted realistic paintings - the faces of the characters can be compared with flashes of light against the background of the surrounding darkness. Therefore, if the hero looks like a tramp, lit by a dim street lamp, then be sure - this is Rembrandt.

To the eternal question, how does the impressionist Claude Monet differ from the impressionist Edward, there is also a simple answer. If you see the blurry outlines of nature - this is Claude Monet, if you see people against the backdrop of nature - Edouard Manet.

“Claude Monet is an Impressionist artist, he painted mostly landscapes, 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 Eduard Manet, ”explained art historian, 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 is still one of the most enigmatic painters. If everything is mixed up in the picture: people, animals, monsters, then Bosch is in front of you.

Of course, any art historian will tell you that advice on how to distinguish artists at a glance is like a joke. To really understand the work of famous masters, you need to often go to museums and read more than one book.