Artist Guides

Get to know the painters you meet most often in ArtGuess.io.

Each guide covers the artist's life, the cities and landscapes where they worked, the visual clues that give their paintings away, and every one of their works currently in the game. Learn an artist here, then put your knowledge to the test on the map.

Spain • 1746–1828

Francisco Goya

The Spanish painter who moved from sunny royal tapestry designs to the haunting Black Paintings, and recorded Madrid through war, revolution and illness.

21 paintings • Read Guide →

Hungary • 1844–1900

Mihály Munkácsy

The Hungarian realist who rose from carpenter’s apprentice to celebrity of the Paris art world, famous for dark, theatrical canvases.

21 paintings • Read Guide →

Brazil • 1866–1944

Eliseu Visconti

The Italian-born Brazilian painter who brought Impressionist light and Art Nouveau design to Rio de Janeiro.

20 paintings • Read Guide →

Japan • 1760–1849

Katsushika Hokusai

The restless Edo-period master behind The Great Wave, who drew gods, merchants, birds and Mount Fuji for seventy years.

19 paintings • Read Guide →

China • 1632–1717

Wang Hui

The leading landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty, who reinterpreted a thousand years of Chinese painting and led the Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour scrolls.

16 paintings • Read Guide →

Mexico • 1907–1954

Frida Kahlo

The Mexican painter whose intensely personal self-portraits mapped her pain, her politics and her identity, from Coyoacán to Detroit.

14 paintings • Read Guide →

China • 1633–1690

Yun Shouping

The early Qing master of flower painting whose delicate “boneless” technique founded the Changzhou school.

10 paintings • Read Guide →

Spain • 1881–1973

Pablo Picasso

The Spanish artist who co-founded Cubism and reinvented his style again and again over a career of more than seventy-five years.

7 paintings • Read Guide →