Famous Artists: Top 30 Artist Searches (data for June 1-30, 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 79 3 Leonardo da Vinci 69 4 Claude Monet 62 5 Henri Matisse 59 6 Salvador Dali 50 7 Rembrandt 42 8 Andy Warhol 42 9 Georgia O'Keeffe 40 10 Michelangelo 36 11 Wassily Kandinsky 17 12 Peter Paul Rubens 16 13 Joan Miro 16 14 Paul Cezanne 15 15 Raphael 14 16 Caravaggio 14 17 Paul Klee 13 18 Jackson Pollock 13 19 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 12 20 Edward Hopper 12 21 Paul Gauguin 12 22 Edgar Degas 12 23 Goya 12 24 Albrecht Durer 12 25 Marc Chagall 12 26 Gustav Klimt 11 27 Piet Mondrian 11 28 Titian 11 29 Edouard Manet 11 30 Rene Magritte 11   Moving up: Rembrandt (#10 to #7), Raphael (#19 to #15), and Caravaggio (#30 way up to #16, possibly due to the "Caravaggio e caravaggeschi" exhibitions in Florence this summer).   Moving down: Jackson Pollock (#15 to #18), Piet Mondrian (#17 to #27) and Rene Magritte (#18 down to #30).     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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