Famous Artists:
Top 30 Artist Searches

(June 1-30, 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	79
3	Leonardo da Vinci	62
4	Claude Monet	61
5	Salvador Dali	54
6	Henri Matisse	48
7	Rembrandt	41
8	Peter Paul Rubens	40
9	Andy Warhol	40
10	Edgar Degas	34
11	Raphael	33
12	Wassily Kandinsky	31
13	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	31
14	Marc Chagall	31
15	Paul Cezanne	28
16	Georgia O'Keeffe	27
17	Rene Magritte	26
18	Jackson Pollock	26
19	Goya	26
20	Joan Miro	26
21	Michelangelo	25
22	Diego Rivera	25
23	Botticelli	24
24	Edouard Manet	24
25	Caravaggio	24
26	Paul Klee	23
27	Titian	23
28	Edward Hopper	22
29	Albrecht Durer	21
30	Frida Kahlo	21

Moving up: Rembrandt (#17 to #7) and Marc Chagall (#29 to #14).

Moving down: Andy warhol (#5 to #9) and Titian (#20 down to #27).

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

Famous Artists:Top 30 Artist Searches

Great Art:Top 50 Posters

Famous Artists:
Top 30 Artist Searches

Great Art:
Top 50 Posters