LosT贼 Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 Your parents might have told you that your Art History degree would never help you in the real world, and I’ll bet you are very excited to tell them about the marginal advantage you have now gained in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For many island denizens, today is the first day with a full visit from Redd, a shifty fox with a trawler full of counterfeit art and, sometimes, real art. If you’re a well-versed expert in all manner of painting and statuary from various cultures, you should have no problem telling real from fake. Everyone else will need help. I’m working on a full list as well as some callouts for individual pieces—its sort of fun to take the opportunity to look at a single painting—but it’s taking a second given lockdown-related time constraints. For now, we’re just going to go with a set of guidelines.To start with, only one of the works of art on display will be real, so you’ve got a 1 in 4 chance of picking right if you pick randomly. If you can eliminate one or two, you’re on your way. The problem is that you won’t know what the real names of these works of art without bringing them to Blathers: on the ship they’re all reduced to weird little descriptors. Van Gogh’s Starry Night becomes “Twinkling Painting”, The Mona Lisa becomes “Famous Painting”, and so on. For the more famous ones, you can probably figure it out. But you won’t know the precise names of many of the works of art you’re looking at.The first thing you can do is use common sense: should that Olmec Head be smiling? Probably not. That will really only take you so far, however, because many of the differences are very subtle: I wouldn’t necessarily expect you to know the accurate color of an ermine in Renaissance Portraiture.
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