Famous Artists: Top 30 Artist Searches (August 1-31, 2008)       Great Art: Top 50 Posters (Based on cumulative sales on Artcyclopedia.com)   The most popular artist searches last month: a lighthearted 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 74 3 Leonardo da Vinci 65 4 Claude Monet 55 5 Salvador Dali 47 6 Henri Matisse 46 7 Andy Warhol 40 8 Georgia O'Keeffe 33 9 Wassily Kandinsky 33 10 Peter Paul Rubens 32 11 Rembrandt 30 12 Michelangelo 29 13 Edouard Manet 28 14 Paul Cezanne 28 15 Joan Miro 28 16 Titian 27 17 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 25 18 Marc Chagall 23 19 Gustav Klimt 23 20 Raphael 23 21 Paul Gauguin 23 22 Goya 23 23 Paul Klee 22 24 Edgar Degas 22 25 Albrecht Durer 22 26 Jackson Pollock 21 27 Diego Rivera 21 28 Pieter Bruegel 20 29 Piet Mondrian 20 30 J.M.W. Turner 20   Moving up: Andy Warhol (#9 to #7), Georgia O'Keeffe (#16 to #8), and Michelangelo (#21 to #12).   Moving down: Rembrandt (#7 to #11), Raphael (#11 to #20), and Degas (#10 way down to #24).     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     Dancing Bears 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

 

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