What is Art DNA?
Art DNA is a three-minute quiz that matches your visual instincts against ten historical schools of Indian painting — from Mughal courts to Kalighat street satire to the living tradition of Madhubani. There are no right answers, only the paintings you're drawn to.
How it works
Each of the ten questions is a pair (or small set) of real paintings, chosen to sit at opposite ends of one visual dimension: order, emotion, density, figuration and tradition. Your picks are averaged into a single five-dimension vector, which is then matched against each school's own vector — the closest school wins, and every school maps to one of eight result identities.
Who makes it
Art DNA is an Art School Stories experience by Project Bhaskar, a small studio in Ajmer writing about Indian art history for people who never studied it.
The paintings
Every artwork in the quiz is sourced from Wikimedia Commons under a public-domain or open licence. Full attribution — artist, licence and a link back to the original file — is on the image credits page.
Say hello
Questions, corrections or just want to talk about a painting? Write to hello@adaptiv.me.