The Ultimate Art Challenge: Identify These Famous Paintings From A Tiny Fragment

This American painting defies interpretation, but what is it?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although it’s rarely easy to tell what’s going on in a Jackson Pollock painting, works like Mural demonstrate how expressive his revolutionary “drip painting” style could be. It was commissioned by renowned art collector Peggie Guggenheim, who wanted a mural in her townhouse.

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This American painting defies interpretation, but what is it?

• Helen Frankenthaler – Mountains and Sea
• Jackson Pollock – Mural
• Wassily Kandinsky – Composition VII
• Gerhard Richter – Abstraktes Bild [599]