How To Find Out Which Artist A Painting Belongs To

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

From Dali to Picasso: 10 quick methods to figure out artists without leaving your home

You don't have to go to an art academy to understand painting. You can distinguish the works of one artist from another by the characteristic author's style. Moreover, you can recognize the hand of a genius even after seeing his work for the first time.

Jan van Eyck

Dutch innovator, representative of the Renaissance, master of portrait. The uniqueness of his works is that the people depicted in the paintings terribly resemble the President of the Russian Federation.

It is completely incomprehensible how Mr. van Eyck managed to portray completely different persons, even his own wife, so that they all resembled our Vladimir Vladimirovich with some facial features.

Titian

It is difficult to confuse this painter with anyone. As soon as you see in the picture a depressing dark background and subtle states of mind of the characters, which look more like torment, torment, anxiety, longing, you can be sure that this is Titian Vecellio.

He painted both portraits and paintings on religious themes. We all know his works such as The Assumption of the Virgin, Venus of Urbino, Bacchus and Ariadne.

Bruegel

And again guests from the Netherlands. This time we will focus on a whole family of artists: Peter the Elder and his sons Peter the Younger and Yana.

All of them painted very peculiar pictures: many human figures dancing, playing, talking and doing a wide variety of things. It is a pleasure to look at this mixed hodgepodge. Another distinguishing feature of the Bruegels is the love of detail, which is always a huge number in the paintings.

Distinguishing the work of family members is a very difficult task, not even all experts can cope with it, but it is worth noting that the theme of peasant and city life is peculiar to Peter's father, Peter Jr. gravitated towards depicting scenes of the doomsday, and Jan skillfully depicted mountain and forest landscapes …

Rembrandt

The next great artist is famous for painting portraits, in which he very vividly conveyed the whole gamut of human feelings. You can recognize Rembrandt's handwriting by several characteristic features.

The first thing that catches your eye is the background of his work, as if in the room where the painting was painted, only a dim light above the head of the person depicted on the canvas was burning. On his face, most often, unspeakable sadness.

Michelangelo

Where are we without an Italian master of the Renaissance. Everyone has seen the famous fresco "The Creation of Adam" at least once in his life.

The works of this artist are strikingly different from the styles of their Dutch colleagues. You won't see any black background or strange creatures here.

The background is often light, people in the paintings are depicted quite large and look like the best representatives of physical and spiritual beauty: bodies are toned, muscular, and all are at least partially naked. All this is done in muted noble colors. Very inspiring.

El Greco

Let's go back to the dark background. But this time we will do without a dim light bulb, because El Greco is different.

His works are painted in high contrast: they are bright, sharp, but still gloomy and, perhaps, slightly intimidating. People on them are terribly thin, unnaturally pale, with very expressive eyes, looking with some reproach. This is notable for the paintings of the Spanish painter.

Leonardo da Vinci

Blissful, serene faces, curly-haired women or even men, large babies, incredibly beautiful landscapes as a background - so you know how to distinguish the great Italian master Leonardo da Vinci.

Claude Monet

The works of the founder of Impressionism are full of tenderness and charm. He portrayed mainly nature: gardens, alleys, parks, reservoirs.

People can be found only occasionally, they are there and to nothing. The main subjects of the paintings are light and air.

Pablo Picasso

Everything is extremely simple here. Only people and nothing more.

Just something is wrong with these characters. Either the nose is not where it should be, or half of the face is blurred …

Salvador Dali

But Dali's face was not floating, but the clock. And most of his works are written in the same style, out of the blue. No reality, only mesmerizing fantasy and sur.

We hope that you have figured out everything and now you can easily recognize any artist by the characteristics characteristic of his works.