These artists are the most searched on Google, says latest study
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The battle boils down between a legendary Spanish painter and a world-famous enigmatic street artist.
The verdict is out: Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso and England-based street artist Banksy are the most searched artists on Google.
Online global art market MyArtBroker conducted a study that aims to determine the most popular artists based on search results collated from around the world.
The study reveals that Picasso and Banksy enjoyed great popularity among Google visitors from different countries.
“The results show a clear battle between Banksy and Picasso to be crowned the most popular in the world, with Banksy being the most popular in 30 European countries such as the UK, Finland, and Switzerland,” said the report.
“Banksy's popularity does not stop there as they appear as the most popular in the UK and more remote places like Madagascar and New Zealand.”
Picasso's popularity, on the other hand, is far more reaching and he elicits interest in countries including Nigeria, Egypt, and the Maldives.
Pop artist Andy Warhol, meanwhile, is popular in South America, while contemporary pop artist Keith Haring reigns among other artists in Belgium.
American artist and designer Brian Donnelly a.k.a. KAWS is popular in Japan.
“Since 2017, the overall market size of the art industry in Japan has grown ¥33B, with the top [five] leading international fine artists based on domestic auction turnover in Japan in 2019 are Kaws, Bernard Buffet, Andy Warhol, Maurice Utrillo, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir,” the report mentioned.
The study also estimated that the online global art market is predicted to increase by 494 percent by 2024.
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