Famous Artists: Top 30 Artist Searches

 

Famous Artists: Top 30 Artist Searches

(data for October 1-31, 2010)

Great Art: Top 50 Posters

(Based on cumulative sales from Artcyclopedia.com)

The most popular artist searches last month: a not-to-be-taken-too-seriously measurement of which famous artists have the greatest "mindshare" in our collective culture.

    

Rank    
Artist
Mindshare Index
(Picasso = 100)

1
Pablo Picasso
100

2
Vincent van Gogh
77

3
Leonardo da Vinci
65

4
Claude Monet
56

5
Salvador Dali
47

6
Henri Matisse
43

7
Rembrandt
41

8
Andy Warhol
34

9
Georgia O’Keeffe
33

10
Michelangelo
32

11
Peter Paul Rubens
14

12
Edgar Degas
12

13
Caravaggio
12

14
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
12

15
Raphael
12

16
Paul Cezanne
12

17
Marc Chagall
11

18
Titian
11

19
Joan Miro
11

20
Jackson Pollock
11

21
Gustav Klimt
10

22
Albrecht Durer
10

23
Edward Hopper
10

24
Wassily Kandinsky
10

25
Jan Vermeer
10

26
Paul Klee
10

27
Edvard Munch
9

28
Goya
9

29
Janet Fish
9

30
Edouard Manet
9

How we measure popularity: In order to eliminate any kind of selection bias due to search engine ranking, external links, etc., we only count internal links from our own search box and our artist listings.

#1

#2

The Kiss
Gustav Klimt

The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh

#3

#4

La Mariée
Marc Chagall

Sunday Afternoon on
the Island of
la Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat

#5

#6

Midsummer Eve
E.R. Hughes

The Garden of
Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch

#7

#8

Dancing Bears
W.H. Beard

Girl with a
Pearl Earring
Jan Vermeer

#9

#10

The Great Wave
at Kanagawa
Hokusai

The Old Guitarist
Pablo Picasso

#11

#12

#13

#14

#15

The Young Martyr
Paul Delaroche

Master Bedroom
Andrew Wyeth

Cafe Terrace at Night
Vincent van Gogh

Bear Dance
W.H. Beard

Nighthawks
Edward Hopper

#16

#17

#18

#19

#20

Blue Nude
Pablo Picasso

View of Toledo
El Greco

Starry Night
over the Rhone
Vincent van Gogh

Three Flags
Jasper Johns

The Lady of Shalott
Waterhouse

#21

#22

#23

#24

#25

Don Quixote
Pablo Picasso

Three Musicians
Pablo Picasso

Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh

The Persistence
of Memory
Salvador Dali

Soft Watch at the
Moment of Explosion
Salvador Dali

#26

#27

#28

#29

#30

Human Proportions
(Vitruvian Man)
Leonardo da Vinci

Ophelia
John Everett
Millais

Carnation, Lily,
Lily, Rose
John Singer
Sargent

Bedroom at Arles
Vincent van Gogh

Neptune’s Horses
Walter Crane

#31

#32

#33

#34

#35

Squares with
Concentric Circles
Wassily Kandinsky

Femme
Pablo Picasso

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur

The Peaceable Kingdom
Edward Hicks

Irises
Vincent van Gogh

#36

#37

#38

#39

#40

The Creation of Adam
Michelangelo

Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth

The School of Athens
Raphael

Orange and Yellow
Mark Rothko

Washington Crossing
the Delaware
Leutze

#41

#42

#43

#44

#45

The Angelus
Jean-Francois Millet

Nude Descending
a Staircase
Marcel Duchamp

Tournee du Chat Noir
Steinlen

Meditative Rose
Salvador Dali

Guernica
Pablo Picasso

#46

#47

#48

#49

#50

Figure Five in Gold
Charles Demuth

Dempsey and Firpo
George Bellows

The Brooklyn Bridge
Joseph Stella

Three Black Cats
Maud Lewis

Number 8, 1949
Jackson Pollock