What Are The Top 5 Most Recognisable Paintings In The World?

[bednobs]

i was reading a bok, and i couldnt visualiseall the ones the character was saying

[bednobs]

ps he said mona lisa, guernica and birth of venus
I had no ide what guernica looks like, and couldnt immediately bring to mind birth of venus either.
I would add the last supper and that melty clocks one

[bednobs]

or maybe the touchy finger one :)

[Tilly2]

Van Gough's Sunflowers?

[Tilly2]

Monet's Water lilies?

[Radagast]

The melty clocks one is called the persistance of memory.

[calmck]

Guernica The Spanish Civil War destruction of town

[bednobs]

i googled guernica, and having seen it i still dont think i would ever have recognised it

[pastafreak]

Yeah...I can visualise them. I think I saw Guernica at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan when I was young.
Is Birth of Venus Botticelli?

[pastafreak]

I'd add Girl with a Pearl Earring.

[Tilly2]

This one:-
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1423949528/starry-night-vincent-van-gogh-framed?ref=listing_page_ad_row-12&plkey=c3724361e6024513d6e31324a102f9c9f46c5d04%3A1423949528&listing_id=1423949528&listing_slug=starry-night-vincent-van-gogh-framed

[anneasquith]

Scream, sunflowers .

[DTCwordfan]

Girl with a Ring - Vermeer
Mona Lisa - Leonardo
The Haywain - Constable
Fighting Temeraire - Turner

Then choose between Rembrandt - self portrait, The Nightwatchman -Rembrandt but on show at the Rijkswijk rather than in The Hague, Guernica - Picasso, Manet's Water-Lilies at Givenchy, Monet's Olympia or the Bar at the Follies Bergiere or Van Gogh's Sunflowers or Starry Night - and there's always the Scream

I have been lucky to have seen them all in real life.

[dustypuss]

The Haywain - Constable . I've been lucky to stand in the very spot it was painted.

[anneasquith]

Constable is popular in Britain, I’m nor sure about the world .

[wolf63]

I am not knowledgeable about famous paintings.

I like art that brings a smile to a person's face. This artist has made £275,000+ selling his art for charity.

https://postimg.cc/2V1wfDMH

[pastafreak]

I agree with Anne. Both Constable and Turner are well known here...I'd say not so much outside the UK.
I'm familiar with all of these, but I'd only put the first 4 or 5 in the 'most famous' category. And, no sign of 'The Scream'...though it appears on other lists.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/top-famous-paintings-in-art-history-ranked

[Buenchico]

Without scrolling down to view other answers here, my thoughts turn to . . .

The Mona Lisa
The Scream
The Haywain
Under the Wave off Kanagawa
Girl with a Pearl Earring

[Ellipsis]

The Mona Lisa
Sunflowers
Water Lilies
Marilyn

Not sure what would get to number 5, but those 4 ... surely almost everybody in the western world knows them and who painted them.

[vulcan42]

Arrangement in Black and grey no 1 or unofficially known as Whistler's Mother.

[Ellipsis]

For #5, maybe The Scream, maybe the Sistine Chapel ("The Last Judgment").