I was surprised to recently learn that, just like Hollywood celebs have their kooky mathematical rankings on “box office power” or whatever, visual artists are also apparently not immune to a ranking system. Over at Artfacts.Net, they seem to have a reasonably sophisticated algorithm that ranks heavy hitting visual artists. Andy Warhol is #1. There are two photographers in the top 20. Can you guess them? Click the ‘continue reading’ link below to find out and to see the top 50.
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Cindy Sherman is number 7 and Andreas Gursky (love him) is #17. Shame on you to everyone who guessed Annie Leibovitz or Ansel Adams. Here’s the top 50:
Artfacts.net has the top 100 along with 191,000 artist biographies. Thanks to James for pointing this out via PDN. [BTW, James the note you put in your email with this link was quite funny: “Maybe we can rank Nobel Peace Prize winners next. Or dads. My dad is better than your dad. He makes more money.]
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I would trade in ALL of Andy Warhol’s work for a single da Vinci, especially for the ‘Battle of Anghiari’ 🙂
Da Vinci isn’t even mentioned .. WHO did this list ?
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I knew about the rankings, and wondered how it worked… I don’t really need to know. I do find it interesting, and a little exciting that a self portraitist is the highest ranking photographer.