Althouse: "Which Famous Artist Drew These Floating Hands?"

February 18, 2016

"Which Famous Artist Drew These Floating Hands?"

A test.

21 comments:

rwnutjob said...: You'd think I'd do better than 6 out of 9 with an art history minor. Been a long time; 2/18/16, 6:59 AM
Jeff Gee said...: 6 out of 9 for me, but da Vinci and the cave paintings were gimmies. I can't believe they didn't include some Steve Ditko hands.; 2/18/16, 7:30 AM
Anonymous said...: Only got 7. I'm a bit butthurt about this. Not because I have any training in art history, but because I had a wildly inflated, now punctured, notion of my ability to recognize the draughtsmanship of dead name-brand artists.; 2/18/16, 8:18 AM
A to the C said...: 6 of 9 as well. I have always enjoyed looking at Diego Rivera hands.; 2/18/16, 8:19 AM
dustbunny said...: I got all nine, a couple were guesses but if you look at a lot of art it's not difficult.; 2/18/16, 8:31 AM
Big Mike said...: I got 8 out of 9, missing only Egon Schiele (whose work I wasn't familiar with, and after looking him up on Wiki I'm not interested in becoming familiar with his work). I never studied art history (my bachelor's degree is in mathematics and my advanced degrees in computer science) but, really, it came down to a guess only on Van Gogh, and since they eliminate artists after each example by the end they were mostly pretty obvious. Especially the last one!; 2/18/16, 8:34 AM
Jeff Gee said...: Yow. My link for the Steve Ditko hands is busted! But this should work.; 2/18/16, 8:39 AM
traditionalguy said...: It was doable. But all those Asian and black hands look alike.; 2/18/16, 8:49 AM
Mrs Whatsit said...: Got all nine! My art major was a long time ago and I'm surprised it still works. I wasn't familiar with Egon Schiele, but figured him out by process of elimination.; 2/18/16, 8:51 AM
Laslo Spatula said...: Egon Schiele led inevitably to Steve Ditko.

I am a big fan of both, by the way.

Elbows are the window to the Hands.

I am Laslo.; 2/18/16, 9:08 AM
Fernandinande said...: My score went up to 11. (Well, 7); 2/18/16, 9:23 AM
Robert Cook said...: I got 8 out of 9 correct.; 2/18/16, 9:41 AM
Fernandinande said...: Mrs Whatsit said...
I wasn't familiar with Egon Schiele,

I know a guy with the same last name who has the same squiggly drawing style when he's drunk, so I felt dumb for missing that one.; 2/18/16, 10:11 AM
Saint Croix said...: I'm going with Leonardo.; 2/18/16, 10:29 AM
Unknown said...: Wow, that was fun, thank you for posting the link. 9/9, of course, but I majored in art history because I have a photographic memory for images. Lord it was easy. (Princeton, that is, but for me, this quiz, too, although it's unfair because I am "differently abled" in a good way!)
I was waiting to see hands by that previously unrecognized Italian artist, Mario Cavepeople (pronounced Kah-veh-pe-oh-play).; 2/18/16, 10:33 AM
Becker Bershad said...: 8 out of 9. I missed Holbein, thinking it might have been Rosetti. That's not too bad considering Rosetti was aiming at medieval revival.; 2/18/16, 11:33 AM
Dagwood said...: Well, I got cave people, anyway (lucked out, got five total).; 2/18/16, 11:57 AM
Robert Cook said...: "8 out of 9. I missed Holbein, thinking it might have been Rosetti. That's not too bad considering Rosetti was aiming at medieval revival."

That's exactly the one I missed. I also assumed that it was Rosetti.

If they'd shown faces, I'd have recognized Holbein immediately.; 2/18/16, 12:18 PM
JackOfClubs said...: 7 of 9. I missed Holbein and Van Gogh.; 2/18/16, 6:40 PM
Etienne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/18/16, 10:38 PM
James K said...: 8 out of 9. Missed Van Gogh. Not bad for an econ major.; 2/19/16, 3:46 PM