Thursday, November 1, 2007

Art History, Simplified

OK, all you art history geniuses. Let’s test your Art IQ. I ran across this chart, where each famous artist from history is distilled to his or her essence. See if you can come up with the missing names to go with the numbers. I’ll send a Dinotopia map and bookplate to the person who gets the most correct names before the answers are posted on Sunday.
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28 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 1, 2007 at 7:18 AM

    Yay, a game...

    1 da Vinci
    4 Rembrandt (?)
    5 van Gogh (LOL, btw)
    6 Seurat
    7 Munch
    9 Picasso
    14 Miro (?) (another LOL if yes)
    16 Warhol
    20 Dali


    Hmmm... I seem to need an update on my art history knowledge, I am afraid...:D

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  2. UnknownNovember 1, 2007 at 8:56 AM

    1. Leonardo diVinci
    2.
    3. Goya?
    4. Rembrant
    5. Van Gogh
    6. Seuret
    7. Munch
    8. Miro
    9. Picasso
    10. Mondrian
    11.
    12. Magrette
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Paul Klee
    15. Freda Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Rothko
    18. Frank Stella?
    19.
    20. Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22.
    23. Keith Haring
    24.
    25.

    I'm sure I could get the rest if I didn't have to go to class.

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  3. Tracy Flynn ArtNovember 1, 2007 at 9:59 AM

    1 davinci
    2 modigliani
    3 hall
    4 rembrandt
    5 van gogh
    6 seraut
    7 munch
    8 kandinsky
    9 picasso
    10 mondrian
    11
    12 monet
    13 whistler
    14 klee
    15 cezanne
    16 warhol
    17 rothko
    18 pollock
    19 latrec
    20 dali
    21 j johns
    22
    23 barney rubble
    24 tomas kinkade
    25

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  4. AnonymousNovember 1, 2007 at 10:02 AM

    I would have guessed Winslow homer for 12.
    24 must be Thomas Kinkade

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  5. AnonymousNovember 1, 2007 at 10:40 AM

    1. Da Vinci
    2. El Greco
    3. Van Eyck
    4. Ruebens
    5. Van Gough
    6. Seurat
    7. Munch
    8. Braque
    9. Picasso
    10. Mondrian
    11.
    12.
    13. Wood
    14. Miro
    15. Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Rothko
    18.
    19.
    20. Wood
    21.
    22.
    23.
    24.
    25. Harvey Kurtzman

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  6. AnkneyNovember 1, 2007 at 10:59 AM

    1. Leonardo da Vinci
    2. El Greco
    3. Franz Hals
    4. Rembrandt
    5. Van Gogh
    6. Seurat
    7. Munch
    8. Hans Hofmann
    9. Picasso
    10. Piet Mondrian
    11. Malevich
    12. J. M. W. Turner
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Paul Klee
    15. Frida Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Rothko
    18. Pollock
    19. LeRoy Neiman???
    20. Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22. Chuck Close
    23. Keith Haring
    24. Banksy
    25. Damien Hirst???

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  7. Marc HudginsNovember 1, 2007 at 12:11 PM

    1. Da Vinci
    2. El Greco
    3. Hals
    4. Rembrandt
    5. Van Gogh
    6. Seurat
    7. Munch
    8. Braque
    9. Picasso
    10. Mondrian
    11. Klee?
    12. Magritte
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Miro
    15. Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Mark Rothko
    18. Pollack
    19. Hopper
    20. Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22. ?
    23. Harring
    24. Kinkade
    25. Kelly Freas

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  8. JRtistNovember 1, 2007 at 6:36 PM

    1 Di Vinci
    2 modigliani
    3 Hall
    4 Rembrandt
    5 Van Gogh
    6 Seurat
    7 Edvard Munsch
    8 Miro
    9 Picasso
    10 Mondrian
    11 Malevich
    12 Monet
    13 Whistler
    14 Klee
    15 Kahlo
    16Andy Warhol
    17
    18
    19
    20 Salvador Dali
    21 Jasper Johns
    22
    23 Haring
    24
    25 Kurtzman

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  9. @@#November 1, 2007 at 6:41 PM

    Hey one of my friends showed me this cool chart, and its really cool so i am going to link this in my blog.

    http://hazem-b.blogspot.com/

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  10. Erik BongersNovember 1, 2007 at 7:49 PM

    Couldn't 12 be David Hockney ?
    A person in a pool ?

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  11. Michael LukyniukNovember 1, 2007 at 8:35 PM

    It gets a little easier the more guesses that came before you ... kinda like eBay! Great idea, I cant wait until Sunday.
    1. Leonardo daVinci
    2. Modigliani
    3. Rembrant
    4. Ruebens
    5. Vincent Van Gough
    6. Seurat
    7. Edvard Munch
    8. ?
    9. Picasso
    10. Mondrian
    11. ?
    12. Claude Monet
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Réne Magritte
    15. Frida Kahlo
    16. Andy Warhol
    17. Piet Mondrian
    18. Jackson Pollack
    19. Howard Pyle
    20. Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22. ?
    23. Roy Lichtenstein
    24. ?
    25. Takashi Murakami

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  12. UnknownNovember 1, 2007 at 9:12 PM

    Ankhey currently has my vote for correct. Franz Hals is a smart answer, 12 could be Turner, 22 is most certainly Chuck Close, except that I'm almost certain the last two are NOT Banksy and Hirst, since I think I've seen this floating around art history classrooms before Banksy became big.

    Do people get knocked out for having /bad/ guesses? *g*

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  13. UnknownNovember 1, 2007 at 10:02 PM

    My guesses are:

    1 da Vinci
    2 El Greco
    3 Frans Hals
    4 Rembrandt
    5 Van Gogh
    6 Seurat
    7 Munch
    8 Mondrian
    9 Picasso
    10 Klee
    13 Grant Wood
    14 Miro
    15 Kahlo
    20 Dali
    24 Johns

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  14. UnknownNovember 2, 2007 at 1:48 AM

    1. Leonardo da Vinci
    2. El Greco
    3. Franz Hals
    4. Rembrandt
    5. Van Gogh
    6. Seurat
    7. Munch
    8. Hans Hofmann
    9. Picasso
    10. Piet Mondrian
    11. Kasimir Malevich
    12. Turner
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Paul Klee
    15. Frida Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Rothko
    18. Matisse
    19. LeRoy Neiman
    20. Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22. Chuck Close
    23. Walter Keane! (haha, hilarious)
    24. Banksy
    25. Takashi Murakami

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  15. UnknownNovember 2, 2007 at 1:02 PM

    1. DaVinci
    2. Holbein ?
    3. Hals or Vermeer
    4. Rembrandt
    5. van Gogh
    6. Seurat
    7. Munch
    8. Hoffmann
    9. Picasso
    10. Mondrian
    11. Albers
    12. Monet
    13. Wood
    14. Miro
    15. Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Rothko
    18. Frankenthaler
    19. Kline
    20. Dali
    21. Johns
    22. Vasarely or Close
    23. Keane
    24. Kinkade
    25. Murakami

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  16. larinNovember 2, 2007 at 1:03 PM

    1 Leonardo
    2 El Greco
    3 Rembrandt
    4 Veazquez
    5 Van Gogh
    6 Seurat
    7 Munch
    8 Braque
    9 Picasso
    10 Mondrian
    11 Klee
    12 Magritte
    13 Wood
    14 Miro
    15 Kahlo
    16 Warhol
    17 Rothko
    18 Matisse
    19 Pollock
    20 Dali
    21 Johns
    22
    23 Haring
    24 Kinkade
    25

    What a fun little quiz! ;-)

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  17. larinNovember 2, 2007 at 1:09 PM

    Wait, maybe 4 is Rubens, because the Spanish wore smaller collars because of the desire to conserve fabric... van Dyke could also be an option, but the collars seemed to not be so starched in many of his portraits...

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  18. Amy StegnerNovember 2, 2007 at 1:20 PM

    1. da Vinci
    2. Modigliani
    3. Hals
    4. Rembrandt
    5. van Gogh
    6. Seurat
    7. Munch
    8. Braque
    9. Picasso
    10. Mondrian
    11. Klee
    12. Magritte
    13. Wood
    14. Miro
    15. Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Rothko
    18. Pollock
    19. Neiman
    20. Dali
    21. Johns
    22. Close
    23. Keane
    24. Kinkade
    25. Kelly Freas

    very fun quiz!

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  19. Juan Diego CaballeroNovember 3, 2007 at 4:40 AM

    Hello, James:
    I,m Juan Diego, a teacher of Art, in Spain. Can I use you game for my students in my blog ENSEÑ-ARTE?

    http://aprendersociales.blogspot.com/

    Have a night day.
    JDC

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  20. AnonymousNovember 3, 2007 at 5:55 PM

    Mmmmmm....challenge.

    1. Leonardo Da Vinci
    2. El Greco
    3. Rembrandt Van Rijn
    4. Peter Paul Reubens
    5. Van Gogh
    6. Georges Seurat
    7. Edvard Munch
    8. Pablo Picasso
    9. Henri Matisse
    10. Piet Mondrian
    11. Kazimir Malevich
    12. Henri Magritte (I'm really shaky on this one)
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Joan Miro (Julio Gonzalez was c sloes second)
    15. Freida Kahlo
    16. Andy Warhol
    17. Mark Rothko
    18. Jackson Pollock
    19. Vassily Kandinsky
    20. Salvador Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22. Victor Vasarely
    23. Harold Gray
    24. Thomas Kinkaid
    25. Will Elder...or possibly Norman Mingo, depending on if you attribute it to who done it first or who made it well known.

    Dang that was fun! I forget how impossible it is to just 'look something up' in an art history book. I always get distracted for at least the better part of an hour.

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  21. RocaNovember 3, 2007 at 7:05 PM

    1. Da Vinci
    2. Modigliani
    3. Rembrandt
    4. Rubens
    5. Van Gogh
    6. Monet
    7. Munch
    8. Malevich
    9. Picasso
    10. Mondrian
    11. Albers
    12. Magritte
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Miro
    15. Kahlo
    16. Warhol
    17. Rothko
    18. Pollock
    19. Kline
    20. Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22. Chuck Close
    23. Keith haring
    24. Kinkade
    25. Alfred E. Neuman

    Still not sure about a lot of these, but I had to take a stab or I'd have stayed up all night!

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  22. froggie is...November 3, 2007 at 7:31 PM

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  23. froggie is...November 3, 2007 at 7:36 PM

    yikes...here goes! (wish i wasn't sooo sleepy that frosh year of gen art history...)

    1. leo...davinci. that hair...that face. that smile...
    2.el greco????? (long face...um, a wild guess here.)
    3. van dyk?
    4. rembrandt
    5.van gogh
    6.seurat
    7.munch (i can't do the umla...)
    8. miro or klee?
    9. chagall
    10. mondrian
    11. kandinsky? hmmm...
    12. monet? is he a lilypad here? magritte? (i think? err...)
    13. oh oh!!! that farm couple! ack!!! i can NEVER remember his name...gurrggg!!!! um, WOOOD!!!! GRANT WOOD! pssheeww!!
    14. miro or klee?
    15.FRIDA! (oh a BRILLIANT ONE!)
    16. warhol (i think...wouldn't be more like a quad?)
    17.
    18.pollack?
    19. schnabel (always kind of disturbed me, that one.)
    21. betsy ross? jasper johns?
    20. dali
    22. atari?
    23. ack...no idea.
    24.money and fish, money and fish...what does that MEAN??? hmmm...matisse???
    25. renoir?

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  24. NicolasNovember 3, 2007 at 10:47 PM

    My list :

    1. Leonardo
    2. Modigliani
    3. Rembrandt
    4. Hals
    5. Van Gogh
    6. Seurat
    7. Munch
    8. Paul Klee
    9. Pablo Picasso
    10. Pietr Mondrian
    11. Kazimir Malevitch
    12. Claude Gelée a.k.a Le Lorrain
    13. Grant Wood
    14. Wassili Kandinsky
    15. Frida Kahlo
    16. Andy Warhol
    17. Mark Rothko
    18. Jackson Pollock
    19.
    20. Salvador Dali
    21. Jasper Johns
    22. Chuck Close
    23. Keith Harings
    24. Damian Hirst
    25.

    Thanks a lot for this very funny quizz !


    Nicolas

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  25. AnonymousJune 30, 2010 at 9:05 PM

    1 DaVinci
    2 Modigliani
    3 Rembrandt
    4 Frans Hals
    5 Van Gogh
    6 Seurat
    7 Edvard Munch
    8 Matisse
    9 Picasso
    10 Mondrian
    11 Sean Scully (or possibly, Ellsworth Kelly?)
    12 JMW Turner
    13 Grant Wood
    14 Miro
    15 Frida Kalho
    16 Warhol
    17 Rothko
    18 Kandinski
    19 Pollack or Lucio Fontana?
    20 Dali
    21 Jasper Johns
    22 Etch-a-sketch
    23 Charles Schulz
    24 Thomas Kinkaid
    25 Matt Stone/Trey Parker? Or Mike Judge?

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  26. AnonymousJune 30, 2010 at 9:06 PM

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  27. TtayanFebruary 10, 2012 at 4:58 PM

    Where can I find the correct answers?

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  28. James GurneyFebruary 10, 2012 at 5:07 PM

    Ttayan, Here are the answers:
    http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2007/11/answers-to-art-history-simplified.html

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