The other night I was thinking about Picasso and how his name always comes to mind when I think about famous artists. I started wondering if he was like the default for Artist in most people's minds. Picasso was the first name Christian thought of too.
In an Etsy forum I asked, "Just off the top of your head, when you think of 'famous artist' what's the first name that comes to mind?" Out of the 40 people who were kind enough to respond so far, here's the breakdown:
Warhol (6)
Monet (4)
Picasso (3)
Degas (3)
da Vinci (2)
Dali (2)
Basquiat (2)
O'Keefe (2)
Van Gogh (2)
Matisse (2)
Michelangelo (2)
Pollock
Rothko
Kahlo
Boticelli
Escher
Ditchfield
Haring
Brassai
Kandinsky
Renoir
Modigliani
Mondrian
Chihuly
Chagall
Rockwell
Wood
Pavlova
I'm glad I asked! People came up with a lot of interesting names. Only three women, which is a shame but not too surprising.
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I think of Van Gogh first and then Monet, Picasso & Renoir :D Van Gogh comes to my mind first because I love his swirly, dreamy art.
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