Remember Who Painted or Wrote It: 99 Flashcards on Famous Artists and Writers
Memorize 99 famous artists and writers with dates: who painted Guernica, The Night Watch or The Kiss, who wrote Don Quixote, 1984 or Beloved, who sculpted The Thinker.
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Quiz night, art-history exams and literature surveys all ask the same question in different clothes: who made this? The Famous Artists & Writers deck (code SM6511) answers it 99 times: 30 paintings, 66 books and plays, 3 sculptures, each card giving the creator and the date. This guide shows how to memorize the whole set without it turning into a list of random names.
Study this deck: Famous Artists & Writers
1 / 10Who painted the Mona Lisa?
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Sample cards
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Who painted Guernica? | Pablo Picasso (1937) |
| Who painted The Night Watch? | Rembrandt van Rijn (1642) |
| Who painted The Great Wave off Kanagawa? | Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1830-1832) |
| Who painted Impression, Sunrise (which named Impressionism)? | Claude Monet (1872) |
| Who wrote Don Quixote? | Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615) |
| Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude? | Gabriel García Márquez (1967) |
| Who wrote The Metamorphosis? | Franz Kafka (1915) |
| Who wrote The Epic of Gilgamesh? | Anonymous Sumerian/Akkadian authors (c. 2100 BC) |
| Who sculpted The Thinker? | Auguste Rodin (1880-1904) |
| Who sculpted the Statue of Liberty? | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1886) |
Everyone in the deck
Painters: Leonardo da Vinci (Mona Lisa, The Last Supper), Michelangelo (Sistine ceiling, The Creation of Adam, David), Raphael, Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Bosch, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Goya, Delacroix, Manet, Monet, Seurat, Van Gogh, Munch, Klimt, Whistler, Grant Wood, Hopper, Picasso, Dalí, Magritte, Pollock, Warhol, Hokusai.
Writers: Homer, the Gilgamesh and Beowulf poets, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontë sisters, Hugo, Dumas, Flaubert, Melville, Twain, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stoker, Wilde, Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Huxley, Steinbeck, Orwell, Camus, Sartre, Tolkien, Lewis, Carroll, Bradbury, Salinger, Golding, Beckett, Ibsen, Miller, Tennessee Williams, Harper Lee, Kesey, Heller, Vonnegut, García Márquez, Atwood, Walker, Morrison, Rowling.
Sculptors: Michelangelo, Rodin (The Thinker, The Kiss), Bartholdi.
Learn creators, not cards
Many creators appear twice or three times, which is your shortcut. Merge those cards into one mental fact: Michelangelo = ceiling + Creation of Adam + David; Orwell = 1984 + Animal Farm; Hemingway = Old Man and the Sea + For Whom the Bell Tolls + The Sun Also Rises; Hugo = Les Misérables + Hunchback; Kafka = Metamorphosis + The Trial; Camus = The Stranger + The Plague; Tolstoy = War and Peace + Anna Karenina. Fourteen such clusters cover roughly 40 of the 99 cards.
Then sort the singletons by century, because the dates on the back are half the answer:
- Antiquity to 1500: Gilgamesh, Homer, Beowulf, Dante, Chaucer, Van Eyck (1434), Botticelli (c. 1485), Bosch.
- 1500-1700: Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Milton.
- 1800s: Goya, Austen, Shelley, Delacroix, Hugo, Dumas, Brontës, Melville, Flaubert, Manet, Monet, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Seurat, Van Gogh, Wilde, Munch, Stoker.
- 1900-1950: Klimt, Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Huxley, Dalí, Wood, Picasso, Steinbeck, Tolkien, Hopper, Camus, Sartre, Orwell, Miller, Williams.
- After 1950: Pollock, Salinger, Bradbury, Golding, Beckett, Lewis, Warhol, Kesey, Heller, Magritte, García Márquez, Vonnegut, Walker, Atwood, Morrison, Rowling.
Two traps in this deck
- Two Kisses: Klimt painted The Kiss (1907-1908); Rodin sculpted The Kiss (1882). The front tells you which by the verb.
- Twin dates: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are both 1847 (Charlotte vs Emily Brontë); The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers are both 1844 (Dumas). Learn the pair together and the date will never be the confusing part.
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