Famous Artists: Top 30 Artist Searches (data for September 1-30, 2009)       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 81 3 Leonardo da Vinci 80 4 Henri Matisse 63 5 Claude Monet 59 6 Salvador Dali 54 7 Georgia O'Keeffe 53 8 Andy Warhol 44 9 Michelangelo 39 10 Rembrandt 35 11 Alfred Stieglitz 33 12 Peter Paul Rubens 32 13 Wassily Kandinsky 30 14 Paul Cezanne 26 15 Jackson Pollock 22 16 Joan Miro 22 17 Piet Mondrian 21 18 Rene Magritte 20 19 Raphael 20 20 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 20 21 Goya 19 22 Edgar Degas 18 23 Albrecht Durer 18 24 Paul Klee 18 25 Marc Chagall 17 26 Titian 17 27 M.C. Escher 16 28 Edward Hopper 16 29 Frida Kahlo 15 30 Caravaggio 15   Moving up: Most notably, Georgia O'Keeffe (#10 to #7) and Alfred Stieglitz (#81 way up to #11) -- presumably due to the Lifetime Channel's TV movie Georgia O'Keeffe, starring Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons. I didn't get to watch the movie, but it has a superb cast.   Moving down: Rubens (#6 to #12), Titian (#16 to #26) and Pieter Brueghel (#18 down to #38).     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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