Quizzes

Impressionism is associated with an instant impression, light, colored shadows, separate brushstrokes, and France. Expressionism implies the artist's experiences, broken gestures, defiantly bright or dirty-dark colors, and the associations take us to Germany and Austria. But is it really simple to identify a particular painting? Are you sure that you will not confuse Monet and Schiele?

“Му five-year-old nephew/grandchild/neighbor`s son could do that,” a comment like that would have been a chart topper of reaction to art works that do not fit in with the conservative art views. Well, can you unmistakably identify which picture had already taken its rightful place at a museum and which one still is kept in a home folder among other treasures? Child’s drawings for the experiment were provided by the Arthive team members.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the most recognizable and original masters in the history of art. From two similar paintings (or their details) choose the one executed by Bruegel.

Among the two proposed paintings or their fragments there is one by Hieronymus Bosch and another one is by entirely different artist. Bosch or not Bosch - that is the question... Feel like an expert: attentively compare the paintings and try to detect Bosch!

“...Something pointless and out of fashion”, you've probably heard in a well-known song. But then everything spun into quite a dashing plot. We also created a test for you here. Try to guess the artist who depicted this or that hat. And maybe you’ll look out a suitable design for your summer hat.

They were the first admired spectators, the first hard critics and favourite models of the artists. They did not understand them and supported them, they calmed them down and were angry with them, they reconciled with their poverty and enjoyed their glory with their husbands. They all have one similar feature: they have always been painted for love. Can you guess where is the wife of Rubens, Cezanne or Monet?

A real painter is always looking for a suitable sitter. It is much easier if an artist is a parent, as the suitable models run nearby. Moreover, they are constantly running... But if only they ran! They strive to unscrew something or to break it off! Therefore, the artist says to his child who acts as a model: "Sit quietly for at least half an hour!" And he clutches at paints, pencils, pastels, and starts drawing... Let`s see if you can identify the right pair: portraitist - his child?

For a long time, women were only painted by male painters. Ladies could not study at an art academy or paint nudity. "Women's" genres were just still life and landscape. The situation persisted until the middle of the XIX century, when painters and paintresses equaled at least in the choice of their subjects. A seductive, playful, but now also strong, confident woman has become different on both sides of the canvas. Turn on your intuition and guess who painted these female images - a painter or a paintress.

There were nobody in the twentieth century who captured the spirit of the New World in such a full, varied and fun way as the cult artist Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), a long-time illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Dickens of the Pencil and Brushes, the greatest expert on the American mentality. Decide what happens on Rockwell illustrations - and find out what percentage of you are American.

If people traditionally try to smile in photographs, still in paintings you will not often see a cheerful facial expression, not to mention a laughing subject. Although, the exceptions do exist! You will hardly find a person who can not recognize the smile of Gioconda. Can you identify the author of the painting by its detail with a smiling subject?

Children are the subjects of all the paintings in this quiz. Take it to check out if you can say that the questions were childish!

“The more I live, the more I regret how little I know,” Claude Monet once said tying to measure the immeasurable. In this quiz you have a chance to see how well you know Monet by answering twelve 'how many' questions about the life of a great Impressionist. Good luck!

East is such a delicate matter. Especially when it comes to Japan: there were legends composed about the eccentricities and strange passions of its residents. Traditional Japanese woodblock print is not exception. Sometimes you could understand what the artist had in mind only after reading its title. Test yourself and find out if you could think like the Japanese?