20 Hints How to Recognize the Works of Famous Painters and Painting Styles

#1 If there are some rich people playing outsider, this must be rococo

#2 If everything looks chaotic and everyone stumbles in the darkness with just one emergency light on, this is Caravaggio

#3 If at least one person looks at you as if they were some important civil servants, this is Diego Velázquez

#4 If you are getting an impression that you need a new pair of glasses to see everything clearly, this must be impressionism

#5 If everything looks like a random pile of loose drawers, this is cubism

#6 If the picture reminds you of a nightmare you once had, this is surrealism

#7 If everyone in the picture, including women, looks like they spent way too much time working out, this is Michelangelo

#8 If it looks like a Rembrandt’s portrait, this is Rembrandt

#9 If the women look furious, this is Gentileschi

#10 If it all looks like a combination of idealized country life and a pin-up styled girl, this is secession

#11 If the character is a blonde girl and her face is perfectly the same, it is Botticelli

#12 If it is not finished, it is probably DaVinci

#13 If it looks like a school nativity play where everyone wears colorful togas, this is Giotto

#14 If it looks like an amateur theater performance, this is neoclassicism

#15 If it looks like a successful game of Tetris, it is a Mondrian

#16 If there are more naked people than you will see on a nude beach, this is a Rubens

#17 If it looks like a scene from Madaline adventures (a character from children’s books) it is a Dufy

#18 If it shows ugly children, it was painted in middle ages

#19 If it looks like a very intimate part of female body, this is certainly an O’Keeffe

#20 If you can feel an overwhelmingly furious male ego, this is German romanticism