Famous Artists:
Top 30 Artist Searches

(data for October 1-31, 2010)

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	77
3	Leonardo da Vinci	65
4	Claude Monet	56
5	Salvador Dali	47
6	Henri Matisse	43
7	Rembrandt	41
8	Andy Warhol	34
9	Georgia O'Keeffe	33
10	Michelangelo	32
11	Peter Paul Rubens	14
12	Edgar Degas	12
13	Caravaggio	12
14	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	12
15	Raphael	12
16	Paul Cezanne	12
17	Marc Chagall	11
18	Titian	11
19	Joan Miro	11
20	Jackson Pollock	11
21	Gustav Klimt	10
22	Albrecht Durer	10
23	Edward Hopper	10
24	Wassily Kandinsky	10
25	Jan Vermeer	10
26	Paul Klee	10
27	Edvard Munch	9
28	Goya	9
29	Janet Fish	9
30	Edouard Manet	9

Moving up: Edgar Degas (#22 to #12), Titian (#28 to #18), and realist painter Janet Fish (appearing for the first time on the list at #29).

Moving down: Joan Miro (#13 to #19), Wassily Kandinsky (#11 to #24) and Paul Gauguin (#21 down to #32).

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.

Source:
Artcyclopedia: Most Popular Artists

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/mostpopular.html