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Who is the most outstanding artist of the 20th century? - Results & Rankings

Discover what people think is the best!

8,384 participants
8,384 total votes

Complete Rankings

1

Edward Hopper

American realist painter, known for urban scenes

Edward Hopper
438 votes5.2% of total
2

Takashi Murakami

Japanese contemporary artist, known for Superflat style

Takashi Murakami
421 votes5.0% of total
3

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American Abstract Expressionist painter

Willem de Kooning
402 votes4.8% of total
4

Yayoi Kusama

Japanese contemporary artist known for polka dots and infinity rooms

Yayoi Kusama
395 votes4.7% of total
5

Salvador Dalí

Spanish Surrealist painter known for bizarre imagery

Salvador Dalí
391 votes4.7% of total
6

Cy Twombly

American painter, known for calligraphic, scribbled works

Cy Twombly
379 votes4.5% of total
7

Henri Matisse

French painter, leader of Fauvism movement

Henri Matisse
368 votes4.4% of total
8

Jeff Koons

American artist known for kitsch and pop culture references

Jeff Koons
341 votes4.1% of total
9

Damien Hirst

British contemporary artist, member of Young British Artists

Damien Hirst
335 votes4.0% of total
10

Robert Rauschenberg

American artist, bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop art

Robert Rauschenberg
325 votes3.9% of total
11

Mark Rothko

American Abstract Expressionist, known for color field paintings

Mark Rothko
323 votes3.9% of total
12

Frida Kahlo

Mexican painter known for self-portraits and Mexican culture

Frida Kahlo
318 votes3.8% of total
13

Anselm Kiefer

German painter and sculptor, known for large-scale works

Anselm Kiefer
316 votes3.8% of total
14

Gerhard Richter

German visual artist, known for photo-paintings

Gerhard Richter
301 votes3.6% of total
15

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor, co-founder of Cubism

Pablo Picasso
291 votes3.5% of total
16

Marc Chagall

Russian-French artist, known for dreamlike, poetic imagery

Marc Chagall
282 votes3.4% of total
17

Francis Bacon

British painter known for raw, unsettling imagery

Francis Bacon
281 votes3.4% of total
18

Roy Lichtenstein

American Pop artist, known for comic strip style

Roy Lichtenstein
259 votes3.1% of total
19

Jasper Johns

American painter, associated with Abstract Expressionism and Pop art

Jasper Johns
235 votes2.8% of total
20

Banksy

Anonymous British street artist and political activist

Banksy
222 votes2.6% of total
21

Marina Abramović

Serbian performance artist, pioneer of body art

Marina Abramović
186 votes2.2% of total
22

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, influential after death

Vincent van Gogh
182 votes2.2% of total
23

Jackson Pollock

American Abstract Expressionist, pioneer of drip painting

Jackson Pollock
173 votes2.1% of total
24

Andy Warhol

American Pop artist, leading figure in visual art movement

Andy Warhol
173 votes2.1% of total
25

Jean-Michel Basquiat

American Neo-expressionist painter and graffiti artist

Jean-Michel Basquiat
160 votes1.9% of total
26

David Hockney

British painter, key contributor to Pop art movement

David Hockney
154 votes1.8% of total
27

Kara Walker

American contemporary artist, known for silhouette installations

Kara Walker
151 votes1.8% of total
28

Helen Frankenthaler

American Abstract Expressionist, pioneer of color field painting

Helen Frankenthaler
145 votes1.7% of total
29

Georgia O'Keeffe

American modernist painter, known for flower paintings

Georgia O'Keeffe
126 votes1.5% of total
30

Ai Weiwei

Chinese contemporary artist and activist

Ai Weiwei
111 votes1.3% of total
31

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian painter, pioneer of abstract art

Wassily Kandinsky
104 votes1.2% of total
32

Louise Bourgeois

French-American sculptor and installation artist

Louise Bourgeois
96 votes1.1% of total

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