Name 100 Artists — Every Brushstroke Counts
Van Gogh, Picasso, Da Vinci, Monet — the museum gift shop answers come first. The name 100 artists challenge then walks you through six centuries of painting: Renaissance masters, Dutch Golden Age, Impressionists, modern art, pop art, and the street artists your city can't stop photographing.
This is a validated quiz against 200 famous painters, ranked by fame. Surnames alone count — Kahlo, Magritte, and Hokusai all score — and the list keeps its category clean: architects and photographers are out, and the only sculptors in are the ones everyone calls 'artist' anyway, like Michelangelo and Rodin.
The strategy is to think in museum wings: Italian Renaissance, Northern masters, Spanish and French golden ages, Impressionism, then the modern wing, then Asia's print masters, then pop and street. The name 100 artists quiz rewards the museum-card holders.
Rules in 10 seconds
- 10 minutes on the clock — it starts when you type your first answer.
- Every entry is validated against the bundled list. Only real answers count.
- Spelling is forgiving: case, hyphens, and plural forms are all matched.
- Reach 100 before 0:00 — or share your score and make your friends try.
FAQ
Do surnames alone count?
Yes — Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt, and Vermeer all score on their own. So does 'Van Gogh' in full.
Are sculptors and architects included?
Only the household-name artists: Michelangelo, Donatello, and Rodin stay because everyone knows them as 'artists'. Architects and photographers are deliberately excluded.
What's the best strategy?
Go century by century: the 1500s (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian), the 1600s (Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velázquez, Rubens, Caravaggio), the 1800s (Goya, Turner, the Impressionists), then the moderns and the street artists.
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Ten minutes. One hundred names. Your move.
