| Some online Art Games... |
A genuine drip by Jackson Pollock can cost you as much as $140 million, but thanks to jacksonpollock.org you can cyberdripping a nice composition as the one you can see at the left, which I have proudly entitled "PC-rhythm", simply with your mouse and your "over-all" talent. Click to change colour and spacebar to delete. Really, really nice.
With My Picasso Head you can easily create your self-portrait (or just an anonymous portrait) with the so-imitated Picasso's style. You can choose multiple ears, eyes, hairstyles, and even add your own signature to complete your personalized masterpiece, just as the simple example that you can see at the right
Marilyn Monroe, Mao, Audrey Hepburn... Now you can add your name to the list of celebrities portrayed by pop-Art icon Andy Warhol with The Warholizer.- Just choose a good-looking photo of yourself, upload it to your computer and wait a few seconds to see your new pop Art masterpiece. Simple, but really interesting.
Dotheresearch.com has created a very nice series of memory games -in which you have to solve puzzles by pairing all cards- featuring several works by some of the most appreciated and popular impressionist and modern artists. Choose your favourite artists and then prove your good memory and formidable Art knowledge: Vincent van Gogh , Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse o Pierre Auguste Renoir
I really love Pac-man. And I really love Mondrian. So Pac Mondrian is obviously a "must" for me. Choose your favourite work by Piet Mondrian (one of them the famous "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" chosen by theArtWolf as one of the 50 masterworks of Painting) and kill those annoying ghosts!
Are you the Sherlock Holmes of the Art world? Then this is a good game for you: A. Pintura: Art Detective is quite an old game (i think it have been online for almost 10 years), but also very interesting: you have to solve a strange case involving a mysterious painting thanks to your Art knowledge.
JUST FOR KIDS! The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has developed a nice webpage devoted to Art games, intended to be
"enjoyed by children playing on their own or with an adult companion". Well... i have to confess that I spent a good time playing the Juan Gris quiz... sweet 25 year old child o'mine... Cute and very educative
The Getty Museum in Malibu has created an excellent webpage devoted to many Arte games, just as "switch", "detail detective", "match madness" or my favourite: the classic, lovely "jigsaw puzzles", including one featuring one of my favourite artworks: Vincent van Gogh's "Irises". The greeaaaat thing is that you can choose the number of pieces of your puzzle, and even get a unvaluable hint while playing!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has developed a small, simple, but very nice game entitled What is It? where you have to guess... what is it. Simple, but, as the website says, "The fun of this game is guessing the details". Come on, let's say what is it. It can be not so easy as you guess...
JUST FOR KIDS! Or not so kids... The National Gallery of Washington has created a rich interactive zone with tons of games, adventures and more. Let your kid create his/her own Rousseau jungle, play with a stunning 17th century Dutch dollhouse, or play hide-and-seek with a painting by famous artist James-Jacques Tissot.
You surely know the world's most famous painting, Leonardo's Gioconda. Then you can play Mona Lisa online jigsaw by thinks.com... And yes, you can make it much more difficult than the example you can see at left... In fact, you can select a 90-pieces jigsaw.
Just drag-and-drop the pieces onto the rectangular "board".