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danny_galaga:

http://reverent.org/great_art_or_not.html

this is tough. you know straight up they are using atypical examples of the famous artists works so you really have to think 'is this an amateur emulating a great artist or is it a lesser known famous artists work'?

i got 67% so not great but firmly in the more often than not camp...

edit: they have more art related quizes here:

http://reverent.org/quizzes.html

'Try to tell if an image is of Pollock's masterpiece or of bird droppings.' sounds fun (",)

danny_galaga:


hehe. 100% on the pollock one. too easy...

bfauska:
92% on the famous or unknown quiz... I only missed Winston Churchill's piece, I guessed famous.  Kind of a fun quiz.  The funny part to me is that I didn't recognize many of the artists names, I just had a feeling that it was painted by an accomplished artist instead of an unknown.

The sad part is that I spent four years at an arts college (doing theatre, not visual art) and I didn't recognize many of the names.

shorthair:
Paintings: yeah, I got 67%. Also thought maybe the eisenhower was famous cos of the theme. Missed the Renior.  Mostly went with my instinct on them, though the extent of my experience with painting is the art portion of my humanities classes back more than ten years ago. He was the only one who taught the art, and I only had two classes - classics to before the enlightenment, and the modern through contemporary eras (with a recap of the enlightenment).

Pollock: well, the lack of streaks in the bird shots is a give-away.

Chris G:
I know absolutely nothing about art.  I got a 75% by guessing.   8)

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