For many, it seems like an impossible task to remember artists and their paintings. Over hundreds of years, history has written down the names of many artists whose names are well-known, unlike their paintings. How to remember the artist's personality and style? We have prepared a brief description for those who want to understand fine arts:

If the paintings show people with big butts, you can be sure it's Rubbens

If people in beautiful clothes relax in nature - Watteau

If men look like curly-haired women with hairy eyes - This is Caravaggio

If a painting with a dark background shows a person with a beatific expression or a martyr - Titian

If the painting contains multi-figure compositions, many people, objects, Christian and surreal motifs - this is Bosch

If the painting contains multi-figure compositions and complex plots, but they look more realistic than Bosch’s paintings, rest assured that this is Bruegel.

If you see a portrait of a person against a dark background in dim, yellow light - Rembrandt

Biblical and mythological scenes depicting several plump cupids - Francois Boucher

Naked, pumped up bodies, perfect shapes - Michelangelo

Ballerinas are drawn, this is Degas

Contrasting, sharp image with gaunt and bearded faces - El Greco

If the painting shows a girl with a unibrow, this is Frida

Quick and light strokes, bright colors and depictions of nature – Monet

Light colors and rejoicing people – Renoir

Bright, colorful and rich - Van Gogh

Dark colors, black outlines and sad people - Manet

The background is like from the movie “The Lord of the Rings”, with a light blue fog. Madonna's wavy hair and aristocratic nose - Da Vinci

If the body depicted in the painting has an unusual shape - Picasso

Colored squares like an Excel document – ​​Mondrian

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, in order 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

Over hundreds of years, world culture has given us a countless number of brilliant painters. One problem is that it is very difficult to remember everyone, as well as many of their works. These simple instructions will help you have at least some knowledge on this topic and navigate the world of art more freely. It will allow you not to get into trouble when conducting small talk.

1. If you see a dark background in the picture and all sorts of suffering on the faces, this is Titian.

2. If in the picture there are such butts and cellulite even on men, have no doubt - this is Rubens.

3. If the men in the painting resemble and may turn out to be women, this is Caravaggio.

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

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

6. If you can easily add a couple of cupids to the picture without disturbing the composition, or they are already there in various configurations, this is Boucher.

7. Beautiful, everyone is naked and figures like bodybuilders - 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 Jan van Eyck.

11. Bright-bright, colorful-colorful - Van Gogh.

P.S.: Monet – spots, Manet – people! ©

"- A long time ago, in the first year, we had the history of art. Lectures were held on Saturday at 8 am and at five to five the “teacher” stood at the door, and then closed it with a lock. And that’s it. If you didn’t have time, you got a pass. All for a year he showed us slides of paintings, ranging from cave paintings to Russian artists of the 90s. And he had all these slides in the form of postcards. And at the end of the year, as usual, there were two questions, and then an execution. individually. According to the number of your passes in a year (!), he took out postcards from the pack. And they had to say the author or the name of the Mona Lisa and a couple more, and they quickly remembered. To guess the author, we in the group came up with a classification. And you know, in 97 cases out of a hundred, it still works!

If you see a dark background in a painting and all sorts of suffering on their faces, this is Titian.

The exception is this bare-bottomed person with no signs of thought on her face. You can remember one. Venus, not Venus, but there is something venereal in her:

If the picture shows buttocks and cellulite even on men, don’t hesitate - it’s Rubens.

If the men in the painting look like hairy-eyed, curly-haired women, 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 a johnide is a mystery purer than the smile of the Mona Lisa.

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

A lot of little people, and a lot of other things - Bosch.

If all people look like homeless people, at night in the light of a dim lantern, this is Rembrandt.

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

Beautiful, everyone is naked and their figures are like those of bodybuilders after drying - Michelangelo.

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

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

And finally, if everyone, even the aunts, looks like Putin, it’s Jan van Eyck

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 forms 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.