A new game, Artle, has been launched by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC. Artle invites art lovers to guess the artist in four attempts using visual prompts from their oeuvre. You are given fewer attempts to guess the correct artist than Wordle give you. But with every attempt you are shown a different work by the same artist. So that actually makes it easier. The Artle game I tried started with an early work by the artist and wasn't so obvious. But the later works were more well known and I got it in 3 so not bad.
At the end of the Artle game, links are included that take you to the digital images of the 4 works on the National Gallery of Art website. This page gives you details about the work, such as dimensions, materials, age, provenance and so on.
As this Hyperallergic article states, "Visual learners and those hoping to put their art history degree to some kind of use" will rejoice at finding this online game. Fine art students might enjoy it as a fun quiz to see how much art history they have learned so far.
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