Can you name the artist from a close-up of their famous painting?

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Artist by Painting Quiz

by The23

Created Jan 25, 2010 in Miscellaneous
Featured Jun 1, 2010
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	johnnyenchilada:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 04:49 GMT	58 points
	There's some foliage for our little friends the squirrels to hide in.

	jonesjeffum:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 04:54 GMT	0 points
	Damn... couldnt spell botticelli anyway also I made a quiz Artist by Self Portait- you might like it ;) http://www.sporcle.com/games/jonesjeffum/artistportrait

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	Riko:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 04:58 GMT	1 point
	ok, i know this is nitpicking but I'd be a bad art historian if I didn't. Leonardo da Vinci should be known as 'Leonardo' not 'da Vinci' kind of like how Rembrandt van Rijn is known as 'Rembrandt' and not 'van Rijn'

	Tahnan:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 05:01 GMT	21 points
	BOB freakin' ROSS!?

	CAV:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 05:12 GMT	20 points
	yay Bob Ross

	TheLuggage:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 05:25 GMT	26 points
	Five Stars for Bob Ross.

	springmom:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 05:25 GMT	19 points
	A happy little tree over here next to a happy little stream...

	InkyBloc:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 05:29 GMT	5 points
	Well hey, I may have only gotten seven right, but at least one of them was the least-guessed (Church). Hudson River School forever!

	goofymuffin:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 05:45 GMT	8 points
	How about let's add some fluffy, cotton candy clouds up in the sky? Nice.

	dr_stalker:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 06:03 GMT	3 points
	I was going to nitpick on the Escher inclusion because that is actually a woodcut print and not a painting, but then I saw that a Bob Ross painting was included and my objection on the Escher point seems rather silly in proportion. I'm not sure how to respond to that: ask why there is no Thomas Kinkade painting or ask if Monet, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Degas, Gainsborough, Delacroix, Renoir, Goya, Pissaro, Rubens, et al. would have been included instead if only they had more happy little bushes and shy, half-hidden trees.

	Stillwater100:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 06:18 GMT	3 points
	I love the inclusion of Church--I've got a print of that painting hanging over my bed.

	whitemale_98:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 06:29 GMT	10 points
	Anyone freaking out about the inclusion of Bob Ross needs to chill out. At the very least when someone is flipping through the channels he'll catch your attention for 2 seconds and may have gotten more of this generation of kids interested in painting than all of these other artists combined. Glad to see my favorite artist up there, Norman Rockwell....Now I'm just waiting for the art snobs to comment that he was actually "just" an illustrator.

	zigfreid:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 06:34 GMT	5 points
	Trying Rossetti gets me Ross... interesting...

	Grabmill:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 06:48 GMT	10 points
	Mondriaan is in Dutch (so his original name) with double A. That should be accepted.

	dr_stalker:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 06:56 GMT	16 points
	@whitemale_98: I love Bob Ross. I watched his show, and I think he was a wonderful example of the joy art can bring. And of course he himself is more well-known and has likely brought painting to more people than, say, Manet. But the quiz title here is "famous paintings." I can't name you a single Bob Ross painting, and I don't know anyone who can. I don't know of any Ross painting where if you showed them to an Art History major they would readily identify it as belonging to that specific artist. Whatever beautiful Bob Ross work is pictured here, it's in a different category than the other works around it, which are well-known and identifiable as belonging to a specific artist. In contrast, the whole point of Bob Ross' painting was so that anyone could paint mountains and trees exactly like him. That's an admirable thing, and there's value in it, but it's completely different than what Rembrandt and even Norman Rockwell (who's included in most art history texts, by the way) were doing. That's why many of us laugh at the idea of including Ross, not because we dislike him or are "art snobs."

	bookbomb:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 07:02 GMT	3 points
	Love this quiz. Ha ha ha for including Bob Ross. We need more quizzes like these...maybe famous artist not so famous paintings. Picasso's three musicians is a good example.

	redsxfenway:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 07:06 GMT	6 points
	Man I love Dutch Masters.

	Triffid:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 09:55 GMT	5 points
	Never heard of Bob Ross. We have Rolf Harris, though. He's a legend.

	exackerly:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 10:08 GMT	-3 points
	picasso, da vinci, and... Bob Ross? WTF?

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	koozbane:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 11:33 GMT	11 points
	Got 'em all except Ross. Funny thing is, I used to watch him as a kid. He never even crossed my mind. Complaining about painters that weren't included is pretty silly. There's hundreds of well known painters. A quiz has to stop somewhere. I LOVED the inclusion of Church! He's my favorite artist and this "Twilight in the Wilderness" my favorite painting. It's his only known work of an unknown geographical location.

	Brabant:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 11:36 GMT	6 points
	Haha, I guessed Bob Ross te second I saw his painting. But I was still surprised to see it was right. But why isn't "Mondriaan" accepted for Mondrian?

	jefe_:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 11:54 GMT	1 point
	I saw the Kahlo, started to type O'Keeffe, realized I'd confused the names, then missed O'Keeffe. I think I would've spelled it wrong anyway.

	janiac:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 12:57 GMT	1 point
	that bob ross picture hangs in my house!!!

	BattleHardened:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 13:14 GMT	1 point
	Anyone elso only know Whistler's Mother because of Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie

	BonnieH:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 13:19 GMT	0 points
	Gosh dang it, I couldn't spell Kahlo right!! For some reason, I thought it was a "C". I did all right. Most of the ones I missed were artists I never really heard of. And my two favorite paintings in the world are represented so this quiz is a-ok in my book. :)

	Kinitawowi:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 13:34 GMT	7 points
	And if you tell ANYONE that that bush is there, I will come to your house and I will cut you.

	queeniefrancie:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 14:00 GMT	-1 points
	good thing it took Frida... could never spell her name correctly :)

	soshoreman:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 14:06 GMT	-3 points
	If Bob Ross was meant as a joke...it's funny. If it was meant to imply he's an actual artist...it's sad.

	trivial:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 14:51 GMT	7 points
	I typed in O'Keefe multiple times. At least now I know how her name is spelled. The inclusion of Bob Ross made me laugh. Love it!

	Penny:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 14:54 GMT	1 point
	I was glad to know the reason I'd never heard of Bob Ross is that I don't watch TV, not because of a glaring gap in my art education.