OK, I admit it: I was bored, surfing the internet, and came across this modern art quiz on boredpanda.com. Since it has to do with art and involves determining whether you’re looking at a famous piece of modern art or art created by a toddler, I thought I’d share it with you here:
via boredpanda.com: Art, and what we do and do not consider to be art, has changed a lot over the last century. It has become an increasingly difficult thing to define for the average person, and sometimes even art historians and experts can’t seem to keep up.
This was illustrated in a 2005 survey done by ABC News in which modern masters’ works were mixed into a series with paintings done by children and toddlers.
Regular people and art critics alike were asked to choose from the series – which of these works belong in a museum and which ones don’t?
Buzzfeed released a similar survey as well, which boredpanda.com has expanded on a bit.
The results of that survey indicate that either we have a long way to go before we can define what is and isn’t modern art, or that there’s no need to define it so strictly in the first place.
Whatever the case may be, let’s see if you’re any better at telling modern art from children’s drawings than the experts are!
Enjoy the game!
For a longer quiz go to boredpanda.com.
1. This piece was created by a toddler 2. Modern art: Willem De Kooning’s A Tree in Naples 3. This piece was created by a toddler 4. This piece was created by a toddler 5. Modern art: Hans Hoffman’s Laburnum 6. Modern art: Gerhard Richter’s Woods 7. This piece was created by a toddler 8. This piece was created by a toddler 9. This piece was created by a toddler 10. Modern art: Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XX 11. Modern art: Cy Twombly’s Untitled 12. Modern art: Olivier Debre’s Composition Bleue, Taches Rouge et Jaune
I was really lucky and got these correctly labeled as to modern art or a toddler’s art, but what made it hard is that these are not images of the whole paintings…just a small portion of the artwork image. Thus, it was hard to gauge the artwork for composition. The children’s work have the beautiful freedom from the inner critic and for me, are lush, rich and wonderful.