"Excel sheet with coloured squares, it’s Mondrian"

A lot of those are pretty close to the ways I learned to identify them.

'Enormous' is on the streets of U.S. cities and towns!

Thank you.

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)...

Very cool painting.

The angles and the energy of the composition.

Interesting to see harbingers of future styles in the distant past.

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.