Famous Artists: Top 30 Artist Searches (May 1-31, 2009)       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 75 3 Leonardo da Vinci 60 4 Claude Monet 58 5 Salvador Dali 50 6 Rembrandt 34 7 Henri Matisse 42 8 Andy Warhol 41 9 Peter Paul Rubens 33 10 Edgar Degas 32 11 Wassily Kandinsky 31 12 Raphael 31 13 Paul Cezanne 30 14 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 30 15 Titian 27 16 Joan Miro 26 17 Marc Chagall 27 18 Jackson Pollock 26 19 Goya 26 20 Michelangelo 26 21 Rene Magritte 24 22 Diego Rivera 25 23 Botticelli 23 24 Edouard Manet 23 25 Georgia O'Keeffe 23 26 Albrecht Durer 23 27 Caravaggio 22 28 Edward Hopper 23 29 Paul Klee 22 30 Frida Kahlo 22   Moving up: Rembrandt (#11 to #6), possibly related to the ongoing release of Peter Greenaway's documentary, Rembrandt's J'Accuse. Also Degas (#24 to #10), and Raphael (#20 to #12).   Moving down: Michelangelo (#12 to #20) and Georgia O'Keeffe (#8 way down to #25).     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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