Modern Art Now: 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The Art of the Brand: Power 30

Comparison chart for the selection of 30 artists. We intended to measure socio-cultural effect for their art in the present tense. Resulting chart; global importance/brand power for selected artists, as calculated January 25, 2010:

1 Pablo Picasso, 2 Andy Warhol, 3 Claude Monet, 4 Ernst Kirchner, 5 Henri Matisse, 6 Vincent van Gogh, 7 Francis Bacon, 8 Jackson Pollock, 9 Jasper Johns, 10 Pierre Auguste Renoir,11 Paul Cezanne, 12 Gustav Klimt, 13 Willem de Kooning, 14 Wassily Kandinsky, 15 Paul Gauguin, 16 Mark Rothko, 17 Rembrandt van Rijn, 18 Peter Paul Rubens, 19 Titian, 20 Piet Mondrian, 21 Amedeo Modigliani, 22 Winslow Homer, 23 Giovanni Canaletto, 24 J. M. W. Turner, 25 Georges Seurat, 26 Kazimir Malevich, 27 Raphael Sanzio, 28 Thomas Eakins, 29 Pontormo, 30 Johannes Vermeer.

Survival rate of a brands link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2553805/BRAND-REVIVAL * Highest known price paid for work of art to date, known to be a 140 million US dollars paid for Jackson Pollock painting in the private transaction.**Chart was completed January 25, 2010 Reference to top prices are approximate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings

http://www.artfacts.net/

http://www.artprice.com

http://www.metmuseum.org

http://www.louvre.org

http://www.museodelprado.es