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Art Stakes Winners
How should we rank artists - by popularity maybe? That's what Artfacts.net, has tried in their system ranking 16,000 artists according to their recognition in the eyes of professionals (ie curators, gallery owners). In addition to a current rank, each artist gets a graph showing the ups and downs of his or her ranking over the last five years. Artfacts.net's list is calculated entirely by a machine. The ranking is based on a transparent set of equations and is recalculated by the Artfacts.net server on a daily basis. Picasso has been No. 1 in the database for the last five years followed by Warhol.
It's fun to compare artists' five-year graphs. Who could have guessed that 99 would be the lowest rank for Damien Hirst and the highest for Paul Cezanne? Or that Fernand Leger would share a graph curve with Paul McCarthy?
View the Top 100 Chart at www.artfacts.net/ranking/Page2_EN.php.
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