Mine is Gustav Klimt!
The description fits me and while I do not like paintings with women , I do like his landscape ones.
Another Rockwell here.
I’m a Van Gogh, which of the 5 listed is perhaps my favorite. Still, it says I’m passionate, which is wrong. I’m dispassionate. Bit of a cold fish, really.
What’s with the question, “Your medium of choice is: Paint, stone, wood, film, psychic friends.” Ignoring the psychic friends, I can’t work with stone, wood, or film, so I had to choose paint…but I hate paint! Paint drives me insane!
I was disappointed to see that there were only 5 artists. Seems terribly limited.
I can think of various axes to judge on: veristic - surrealistic, representational -nonrepresentational, realistic - abstract, organic - hard edged, landscape - portrait, vibrant - muted…I’m sure there are lots more. Using just these you’d get a nice 6-dimensional system to classify folks on, with 64 different artist “types” at the extremes.
Ansel Adams would be veristic, representational, realistic, organic, landscape, muted.
Van Gogh would be veristic, representational, mostly realistic, organic, midrange of landscape-portrait, vibrant.
Piet Mondrian would be nonrepresentational, abstract, hard edged, vibrant.
Picasso would be veristic, representational, abstract, vibrant.
Of course, you might have to start getting into lesser known artists, and getting someone you’ve never heard of as a result would be sort of boring.
Still, I think we Dopers could write a better “Inner artist” quiz. But then, Dopers can do pretty much anything.
Well, yeah, of course the test is completely bogus. It did occur to me, though, that as a poster-selling tool, it might have behooved them to have a few more artists, if only to increase the likelihood of selling posters. If they had told me my inner artist was David Hockney or Henri Matisse (to mention only two artists whose art – in poster form, of course – I’ve got hanging on the walls of my home), I’d have clicked to see what posters they have. Color, people! I love rich, saturated color! Ansel Adams, though brilliant, ain’t exactly known for his color photography, and I didn’t bother to click through to see what they had available.
(You think I got Ansel Adams because I picked “stone” as my medium?)
I’m Salvador Dali.
Sorry about your luck Norman Rockwells.
According to art.com, my inner artist is Keith Haring. By no stretch of the imagination am I a Keith Haring fan.
I had trouble getting through many of the questions. Some I would have answered with more than one of the choices and others I’d have answered “none of the above”. Given the half-dozen possible results, I’d have expected to be likened to van Gogh, but not so. After muddling through, I was informed that my inner artist is in fact Gustav Klimt! I suppose I can live with that, despite my outer artist’s insistence on turning out stuff that is nothing like his (although women are my favorite subjects).
Even if the main point of the quiz wasn’t to sell posters, I agree with those who’ve said there should have been more possible results. (For instance, the inclusion of one or two women would have been nice.) It’s like having a quiz called “What food are you?” and then only offering one result from each food group. If I were an artichoke, I certainly would not want to be lumped in with a bunch of carrots. Nope.
Another Van Gogh. I personally prefer Gustav Klimt, but Vincent would have been my second choice from their list, so I can live with it.
I got Keith Haring. I had no idea who he was/is. I did recognize the art though, at least I think it was the same. It was pretty common in Sam Francisco some years back, because there was some group complaining about something, and the shirts and/or posters had that types of artwork. Anybody remember what I’m talking about ? Anyway it’s okay.
Your inner artist is Salvador Dali!
Okay, so maybe you don’t dream about melted clocks, but you do share a hint of Dali’s passion for the surreal. Let’s face it – you’ve got a different way of looking at the world and that means that things aren’t always as they may seem… It’s not necessarily that you have a rich fantasy life – it’s just that you can appreciate different perspectives and points of view. I mean who are you to say something can’t exist? But even when you do come out of your dreamscapes, it’s clear, like Dali, your feet are planted on terra firma. And your unique combination of inspiration and creativity are sure to spell success.
Dali is probably my favorite artist, so I’m okay with this.