Who Is The Most Famous Artist?

[ykyung]

i want to know who is the most famous artist

[Spoonboy]

That depends: as there are so many Great Masters (van Gogh, Constable, Michael Angelo, Goya, Dali to name a few), to choose from, they are all equal in my opinion.

[society]

http://preview.tinyurl.com/q8cfe8d

[ykyung]

hum... i mean the picture aritist.

[Mamyalynne]

You mean painter or photographer ?

[nungate]

I will admit to a fondness for Renoir, I love Matisse, and paintings from the Dutch school of the 16th & 17th centuries, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Frans Hals, then there's Leonardo and I am very partial the the works of Lowry. I'm rambling now what was the question again?

[arunvarma]

I will go for Rembrandt for his amazing surpassing handling of light, Renoir, the French impressionist painter, for his perfect and natural depiction of subjects and landscapes, Van Gogh for his wonderful use of line & colour to express his emotions, Picasso for his different styles and of course Leonardo da vinci for his unbelievable life like yet surreal style.

[Canary42]

Fred Goodwin - for drawing an enormous pension after driving the country into recession. Perhaps that should read infamous

[Iluvspikey]

Well they reckon that the most famous painting in the world is the Mona Lisa, so it has to be Leonardo Da Vinci. Personally I love the French Impressionists, John Constable, JWM Turner, Grimshaw and Preraphaelites.

[AlwaysConfused]

Da Vinci

[jake-the-peg]

I would think it would be either Picasso or Van Gough - I suspect that although Leonardo Da Vinci painted what is almost certainly the most famous picture in the world people probably first think of his 'inventions'

[murraymints]

For me Claude Monet....love his work...have my stairs flanked with his more famous works...visited his garden and home a few years back...lovleeee...!!

[Baldric]

Do you know who it is yet?

[murraymints]

Have also been to Da Vinci' s home in Amboise ...prototypes of his inventions on show...fascinating. !!

[jake-the-peg]

I hink it is fair to ask who the most famous artist is.

It's not the same as the best or your personal favorite and actually it's not a subjective question at all.

However you would have to ask a wide selection of people from all over the world to name artsts they have heard of and collate the first ones people think of.

I've not actually come across anyone actually doing it though

[ludwig]

Picasso

[sir.prize]

Not famous - but this artist is good.

[Clanad]

methyl has a good point... deffinition of 'famous'... if it's the most widely known, here in the U.S. it would likely be Charles M. Schulz . What? Never heard of him? He's the artist that originated the "Peanuts" (a/k/a/ Charlie Brown) cartoon series... one site testifies: "... beginning on October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death). In total 17,897 different Peanuts strips were published. The strip was one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and considered the most beloved comic strips of all time. It was "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being,'"' according to Professor Robert Thompson of Syracuse University..."
Far more prolific than any of the "artists" usually thought of when this question is asked...

[ykyung]

i am from south korea, but i am curious that some other in america might know korea artist. Did anyone knows???