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If everyone including the women looks like Putin, then its van Eyck.
More from Picasso to Rembrandt at:
http://leenks.com/link511019.html
antiquie
(4,299 posts)"Excel sheet with coloured squares, its Mondrian"
hvn_nbr_2
(6,492 posts)A lot of those are pretty close to the ways I learned to identify them.
elleng
(131,413 posts)'Enormous' is on the streets of U.S. cities and towns!
calimary
(81,608 posts)elleng
(131,413 posts)abakan
(1,819 posts)Political_Junkie
(1,998 posts)Thank you.
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)I think the Putin/van Eyck rule is my favorite. Some of them are actually spot on, and fairly reliable (like the Caravaggio one).
I have to take exception to the Bruegel/Bosch rule though. Plenty of crazy bullshit going on in many of Bruegel's paintings too. This, for example, is The Fall of the Rebel Angels (really fucking cool painting I might add)...
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Very cool painting.
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)The angles and the energy of the composition.
Interesting to see harbingers of future styles in the distant past.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Ok, gotta check the link!
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)I'm an artist myself and I usually list Bosch/Bruegel as influences when pressed to do so. In fact, I said it once to a reporter for a local paper when being interviewed in connection with an art show I was part of, and she asked me if they were local artists. Heh. I've always regretted not answering in the affirmative because I would have had a hilarious clipping.
I think it's so interesting that whenever an artist in any pre-modern era delves into demonic themes and hellscapes, it usually winds up being their best work. Like being able to explore that subject gave them the freedom to unleash their own demons.