And all because this issue has not lost its relevance to this day. The essence of this method was to remember a few starting points. It was actually invented in order to pass the exam, but it worked so well, using this trick you could be considered an intellectual connoisseur of painting.

And here is the story itself.

“A long time ago, in my first 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 all. I didn’t have time until eight - a pass, and many 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.

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!"

Here is part of that classification:

Funny artist cheat sheet
(Styles cheat sheet here)

Original taken from vasily_sergeev V

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 all. 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

"- A long time ago, in my first year, we had the history of art. Lectures were held on Saturday at 8 am and with five minutes to five "teacher" stood at the door, and then closed it with a lock. And that's all. for a year he showed us slides of paintings, ranging from rock art to Russian artists of the 90s. And he had all these slides in the form of postcards. Here's a pack. And at the end of the year, as usual, an exam. First, two questions, and then individually. By the number of your passes for the year (!) He took out postcards from a pack. Randomly. And it was necessary to say the author or the name. Mona Lisa and a couple of others were remembered quickly. And something needs to be done with the rest of the mule. And so, to guess the author, we in the group developed a classification. And you know, in 97 cases out of a hundred - it works! So far!"

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-ass person with no signs of thought on her face. One can be remembered. Venus, not Venus, but there is something venereal in her:

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

If in the picture the men look like hairy curly-haired women - this is Caravaggio.

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

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

A lot of little people, as well as a bunch of everything - Bosch.

If all people look like bums, at night by the light of a dim lantern - this is Rembrandt.

If you can easily add a couple of fat-ass cupids and lambs to the picture (or they are already there) - this is Boucher.

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

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

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

And finally, if everyone, even aunts, looks like Putin, this is Jan van Eyck

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 in 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 say 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.

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 really 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.

There are no similar posts.