Which Artwork is Which? The game is aimed at developing communication, language, and puzzle solving skills. It is designed to also help players, especially younger ones, to develop the skills required to understand and discuss artwork when they see it in a gallery. It could either be played at home in the format seen here, or in a gallery. In lieu of the artwork being on the gallery walls, please use the exhibition sheets provided.
Instructions for 2+ players • Cut out the cards, shuffle them, and divide them between each player. • Each player takes it in turn to read out the clues on the card. The other player/s look at the ‘Exhibition Sheets’ and try to figure out which artwork is being described.
E C Barnes (1830-1882) The Flower Girl, mid - late19th Century
For a more challenging game: • As above but read out one clue at a time. • If the player guess on the first clue, award them 10 points, 2nd clue 8 points and so on… • Person with the most points wins.
It’s a warm, sunny day. There’s a woman stood in a garden. The air around her smells of beautiful roses.
Which artwork am I describing?
John Leech (1817-1864) Shopping, mid 19th century
JH Mols, after Peter Paul Rubens (active late 19th Century) The Descent from the Cross, late 19th Century It’s dark and the light is shining on the main figures.
There’s many people and it looks busy.
There’s many people in the picture.
The women are wearing bonnets.
They are all wearing fabric of different colours and textures.
A woman is trying to choose what to buy. A man is explaining what fabric feels like.
Everyone in the picture is holding onto a piece of cloth. Which artwork am I describing?
Which artwork am I describing?
Robert Fournier (1915-2008) Vase, mid 20th century
An object that is round and rough.
Martin Brothers Ribbed Vase, 1900
The object is rough with marks on it.
An object with vertical stripes.
It has a small opening on the top.
The stripes are two different colours.
It is mostly one colour with darker and lighter marks on it.
The lighter coloured stripes stick out from the object.
Which artwork am I describing?
The object resembles a seed pod. Which artwork am I describing?
Keith Murray (1892-1981) for Wedgwood Vase, 1930s
A round ceramic object with an opening at the top. The object has circular horizontal stripes. The horizontal stripes and the colour of the object make you think of the waves of the ocean. Which artwork am I describing?
I Sabatini (19th Century) A Lady Holding a Book, late 19th Century A woman is sat in luxurious clothes beside a table covered in a velvet table cloth. Her dress looks like it is made from silk or satin and would be smooth and shiny. She is holding a book. Which artwork am I describing?
Louis Devedeux (1820-1874) A Figure Subject, The Drawing Lesson, mid 19 Century
Alexandre-Marie Guillemin (1817-1880) In the Pyrenees, mid 19th Century
A woman is drawing from a statue.
A boy is playing a recorder.
A man is showing her how to do this.
A girl is playing a string instrument.
The woman is looking at the statue that she is copying.
A woman is listening to the music that they are playing.
Which artwork am I describing?
Which artwork am I describing?
Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) View of Wednesbury, 1919 Gertrude Spencer Stanhope (1857-1944) Pan, late 19th century – early 20th century
A boy is sat on a rock.
The background shows factories and chimneys. The smoke coming out of the chimneys goes into the sky with the clouds.
The boy has horns like a mythical creature. In the foreground, there’s piles of rubbish. He is playing an instrument. Which artwork am I describing?
Which artwork am I describing?
Malcolm Whittaker, (b.1937) Figure Drawing: Pencil Study for ‘The Industry’, 1956 A man is sat staring into the distance. He is wearing an overcoat ad a flat cap. He’s sat at a small table with a bottle on it. Which artwork am I describing?
Antoine Emile Plassan (1817-1903) Child with Fruit, late 19th century A little girl is stood by a table and a maid can be seen coming through a door. The table is set with tea and fruit. The little girl must really like oranges! Which artwork am I describing?
Maker unknown Venetian glass fruit, 17th century Each object has different textures and colours.
Some of the objects look so juicy you can imagine eating the real versions.
Abraham Mignon (1640-1679) Fruit and Insects, late 17th century There is a table piled with fruit and leaves.
Which artwork am I describing? It is a display of beautiful, autumnal fruit. There are other things on the fruit that would put you off eating it! Which artwork am I describing?
Exhibition Sheet
Pan
Ceramic
Gertrude Spencer Stanhope
Keith Murray for Wedgewood
View of Wednesbury Edward Alexander Wadsworth
A Figure Subject, The Drawing Lesson
Fruit and Insects
Louis Devedeux
Abraham Mignon Shopping Vase
D Wren & S Fournier
John Leech
Exhibition Sheet
Figure Drawing: Pencil Study for ‘The Industry’
Descent from the Cross
The Flower Girl
Malcom Whittaker
JH Mols after Peter Paul Rubens
Edward Charles Barnes
Lady Holding a Book In the Pyrenees Alexandre –Marie Guillemin
Venetian Glass Fruit
Girl with Fruit
Ribbed Vase
Antoine Emile Plassan
Martin Bros
I Sabatini