Cocktails, cheese, books, footwear -- who knew the faintest detail of a personal preference could reveal so much about our personalities? So, we thought: If our favorite milk products and children's literature can be so illuminating, what about our favorite pieces of art...?
Thus began our investigation into the character-revealing aspects of everyone's most loved masterpieces. Because a picture's worth at least a few revelatory sentences, right?
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Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss"
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Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night"
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Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
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4
Frida Kahlo's Portraits (Any of Them)
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Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Dustheads"
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7
Georgia O'Keeffe's "Pink Tulip"
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Jackson Pollock's "Number 19"
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Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"
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10
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Screenprints
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Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
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Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain"
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13
Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
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Cindy Sherman's Self Portraits
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Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"
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16
Barbara Kruger's "We Don't Need Another Hero"
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Kara Walker's "A Subtlety"
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Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms
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19
Banksy's "Riot Green"
(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A version of this post was originally published in January of 2014.