Art

For the collection of art-related items in Wild World, City Folk, and New Leaf, see Art (category).

Various works of art on display in the museum in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Art in the Animal Crossing series refers to furniture such as paintings and sculptures that are based on real-life works of art. Paintings appear in every game and can be placed in a house as decoration, or, beginning in Animal Crossing, donated to the art wing of the museum. Sculptures are introduced in New Leaf, and serve a similar function. In Wild World and subsequent games, there is a chance for a painting or sculpture to be a forgery. Forged artwork are less valuable than genuine pieces, and forgeries cannot be donated to the museum.

In most games, art can be bought in one of two locations: either at Tom Nook's store or from Redd. Prior to New Leaf, they appear infrequently at Tom Nook's store as spotlight items and are guaranteed to be authentic. Paintings are stocked more frequently at Crazy Redd's; there is always one painting in his original stock of three items. However, Redd's paintings are more expensive (costing 3,920 Bells) and there is a chance for it to be counterfeit. Villagers frequently speak of Redd's illicit dealings, some having even bought a painting and having it identified as a fake later, much to their dismay. If a villager mentions having bought a fake painting, it means that the painting at the moment in stock at Crazy Redd's is fake.

All artwork items in the Animal Crossing series are based on artwork in the real world, such as paintings resembling Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, or Klimt's The Kiss, and sculptures resembling Michelangelo's David. No items use real-world names, instead being named with an adjective followed by Painting or Statue. Such examples are the worthy painting, flowery painting, and the mystic statue.

After being bought, artwork may be donated to the museum by speaking to the curator, Blathers. Donations can be made unless the same work of art is already on display or is forged. Accepted art will be added to the gallery in the museum with a corresponding title and name of the player who donated it. If the artwork is forged, Blathers will identify it as such and reject the donation, in keeping with the museum's wish for high quality exhibits. Artwork may also be placed in a house, with paintings placed on an easel.

Appearances

In Doubutsu no Mori

Fifteen paintings appear in Doubutsu no Mori, including two that are not normally obtainable in Animal Crossing and do not appear in subsequent games: the dreadful painting and novel painting, based on Edvard Munch's The Scream and Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, respectively. Since the museum does not appear in Doubutsu no Mori, paintings cannot be donated and can only be used as furniture.

In Doubutsu no Mori+

In Doubutsu no Mori+, paintings can now be donated to the museum, where they are added to an art exhibit. They can be obtained from either Tom Nook's store or Crazy Redd's Furniture Emporium. There are four paintings that do not appear in Animal Crossing: the lovely painting, healing painting, nice painting, and pleasant feeling painting. Additionally, the dreadful painting and novel painting from Doubutsu no Mori can be obtained exclusively via the Data Moving Service, though they cannot be donated to the museum.

In Animal Crossing and Doubutsu no Mori e+

In Animal Crossing and Doubutsu no Mori e+, new paintings include the basic painting, scary painting, quaint painting, and classic painting, which replaces the lovely painting, healing painting, nice painting, and pleasant feeling painting from Doubutsu no Mori+. Additionally, the two paintings from Doubutsu no Mori were removed altogether.

In Wild World

In Animal Crossing: Wild World, all paintings now have a chance of being forgeries, which cannot be donated to the museum and sell for 10 Bells. They can be obtained from Crazy Redd's or Tom Nook's store. Five new paintings have been added: the amazing painting, nice painting, opulent painting, solemn painting, and warm painting. Additionally, the lovely painting returns from Doubutsu no Mori+ after being absent in Animal Crossing and Doubutsu no Mori e+, while the classic painting does not return, making for a total of twenty paintings. The amazing painting from Animal Crossing is now known as the calm painting. Forged paintings can be exchanged for 100 Bells if the player has signed up for Lyle's insurance.

In City Folk

A player viewing various paintings in the museum in Animal Crossing: City Folk

Six new paintings are introduced in Animal Crossing: City Folk: the dynamic painting, jolly painting, moody painting, scenic painting, serene painting, and wistful painting. Additionally, the dainty painting, lovely painting, opulent painting, and rare painting do not return from Wild World, making for a total of twenty-three paintings. Like in Wild World, paintings can be forgeries and are obtained from either Redd or Tom Nook's store.

In New Leaf

Redd's Gallery in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, selling four works of art.

A new type of artwork, statues, is introduced in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Eight statues appear, as well as twenty-four paintings. There are three new paintings: the graceful painting, neutral painting, and wild painting; additionally, the strange painting does not return from City Folk. Artwork is obtained from Redd's Gallery, which occasionally appears in the plaza, and each player may purchase a single item which will be subsequently mailed to their house. As in other games, not all items offered by Redd are genuine, although forged paintings and sculptures appear differently than genuine pieces. Additionally, villagers may tell the player that they have met a 'red figure' in the train station, referring to Redd, then tell the player they bought a painting from him. The villagers will ask the player to buy it from them and will say that they have no idea if it is a forgery or not. Unlike in previous games, Timmy and Tommy's store does not offer artwork for ordering from the catalog. Forgeries cannot be sold to Re-Tail, although Reese will dispose of them for a fee.

In New Horizons

While initially absent from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, art was added in the 1.2.0 April Free Update. Six new paintings and five new statues have been added, and two paintings, the fine painting and neutral painting, do not return from New Leaf, making for a total of 42 works of art. New works include the academic painting, detailed painting, glowing painting, mysterious painting, sinking painting, twinkling painting, familiar statue, informative statue, rock-head statue, tremendous statue, and warrior statue. The process of obtaining art is mostly the same as in New Leaf, though with Redd's tent replaced with Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler, a boat which periodically appears on the beach at the back of the player's island. Jock, lazy, smug, and cranky villagers in this game can also occasionally mail the player artwork, which can be either real or fake: jock and lazy villagers can send any piece of art, real or fake, smug villagers can only send forgeries, and cranky villagers can specifically send any sculpture, real or fake, but not paintings (incidentally, both halves of the wild painting are treated as sculptures in the game's code, resulting in cranky villagers being able to mail copies of them to the player). A new feature of that art is that fake art is "haunted" and will change at night time. For example, in the wistful painting, the girl will close her eyes.

List of art

Paintings

Paintings in the Animal Crossing series
Art		Real-world counterpart	Game
			Doubutsu no Mori	Doubutsu no Mori+	Animal Crossing	Wild World	City Folk	New Leaf	New Horizons
Academic painting		Vitruvian Man	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Amazing painting		The Night Watch	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Basic painting		The Blue Boy	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Calm painting		A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Classic painting		Washington Crossing the Delaware	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Common painting		The Gleaners	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Dainty painting		The Star (Dancer on Stage)	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Detailed painting		Rooster and Hen with Hydrangeas	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Dreadful painting		The Scream	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Dynamic painting		The Great Wave off Kanagawa	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Famous painting		Mona Lisa	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Fine painting		Arearea	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Flowery painting		Sunflowers	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Glowing painting		The Fighting Temeraire	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Graceful painting		Beauty Looking Back	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Healing painting		Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Jolly painting		Summer	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Lovely painting		Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Moody painting		The Sower	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Moving painting		The Birth of Venus	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Mysterious painting		Isle of the Dead	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Neutral painting		Basket of Fruit	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Nice painting		Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow Sweater	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Nice painting		The Fifer	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Novel painting		Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Opulent painting		Zodiac	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Perfect painting		Apples and Oranges	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Pleasant feeling painting		Olympia	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Proper painting		A Bar at the Folies-Bergère	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Quaint painting		The Milkmaid	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Rare painting		The Kiss	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Scary painting		Otani Oniji the 3rd as Yakko Edobei	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Scenic painting		The Hunters in the Snow	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Serene painting		Lady with an Ermine	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Sinking painting		Ophelia	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Solemn painting		Las Meninas	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Strange painting		Ambassadeurs – Aristide Bruant	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Twinkling painting		The Starry Night	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Warm painting		La maja vestida	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Wild painting		Folding Screen of Fujin and Raijin	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Wistful painting		Girl with a Pearl Earring	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH
Worthy painting		Liberty Leading the People	DnM	DnM+	AC	ACWW	ACCF	ACNL	ACNH

Statues

Statues in the Animal Crossing series
Art		Real-world counterpart	Game
			New Leaf	New Horizons
Ancient statue		Jōmon-period Shakōkidogū figurine	ACNL	ACNH
Beautiful statue		Venus de Milo	ACNL	ACNH
Familiar statue		The Thinker	ACNL	ACNH
Gallant statue		David	ACNL	ACNH
Great statue		Kamehameha I	ACNL	ACNH
Informative statue		Rosetta Stone	ACNL	ACNH
Motherly statue		Capitoline Wolf	ACNL	ACNH
Mystic statue		Bust of Nefertiti	ACNL	ACNH
Robust statue		Discobolus	ACNL	ACNH
Rock-head statue		Olmec colossal head	ACNL	ACNH
Tremendous statue		Houmuwu ding	ACNL	ACNH
Valiant statue		Nike of Samothrace	ACNL	ACNH
Warrior statue		Figure from the Terracotta Army	ACNL	ACNH

See also

• Art (category), a category of furniture for works of art
• Forgery

References

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