Name a painter you know

Start anywhere in the canon. We hold 15 male reference points and match each one to women painters on style, subject matter, movement, technique, mood, symbolism, era and canon role.

Pablo Picasso

1881–1973 · Cubism

Fractured form, restless reinvention, the twentieth century's default.

Caravaggio

1571–1610 · Baroque

Raking light, street-cast saints, violence at close range.

Claude Monet

1840–1926 · Impressionism

Light as the actual subject; the series as method.

Edgar Degas

1834–1917 · Impressionism

Cropped modern life, dancers, the tilted vantage.

Édouard Manet

1832–1883 · Realism / Impressionism

Flat blacks, cool address, the shock of the contemporary.

Vincent van Gogh

1853–1890 · Post-Impressionism

Impasted feeling, saturated landscape, the myth of the tortured artist.

Wassily Kandinsky

1866–1944 · Abstraction

Spiritual abstraction and the theory that came with it.

Salvador Dalí

1904–1989 · Surrealism

Hallucination rendered with academic finish.

Jackson Pollock

1912–1956 · Abstract Expressionism

The drip, the floor, the American gesture.

Mark Rothko

1903–1970 · Colour Field

Soft-edged rectangles as a place to stand.

Rembrandt van Rijn

1606–1669 · Dutch Golden Age

Shadowed interiority and the lifelong self-portrait.

Henri Matisse

1869–1954 · Fauvism

Colour freed from description; pattern as structure.

Gustave Courbet

1819–1877 · Realism

Ordinary labour painted at history-painting scale.

Andy Warhol

1928–1987 · Pop Art

Repetition, celebrity, the surface as the point.

Gustav Klimt

1862–1918 · Vienna Secession

Ornament, gold ground, decorative eroticism.