Most Popular Artists
Artcyclopedia has a list of the thirty most popular artists as deduced by web links. As you can see, Pablo Picasso tops this list of artists, and is given a mindshare rating of 100 to compare his popularity with that of other artists.
Next to Picasso on the list are Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, and Claude Monet. While it is interesting to see how different artists rate on popularity today, this really says little about their work.
To find information on many artists and something about their lives and works, try the Artnet site. Here you will find an alphabetical listing of all kinds of contemporary and historic artists. There are links to the different works these artists have up for sale as well as listings for galleries that sell their paintings.
There are a lot of artists in the world. What makes one artist famous and another unknown often has little to do with talent and a lot to do with marketing. The high prices of some of the work of famous artists is in itself enough publicity to make them even more famous. What becomes popular is often a matter of style or taste, and what gets publicity in the press.
If you are looking for art on the Internet there are thousands of sites where you can find information and art for sale. You might try browsing through some of the paintings on Ebay when you have nothing better to do if you want to see how much some art actually sells for. There are a lot of paintings that you can probably get for little more than shipping charges. On the other hand, if it’s something by a famous artist, you might have to sell your house to buy it.
