It turns out great Artists are rather rare.
Updated: Nov 25, 2019
I was musing over how many truly great Artists the world has produced and from which country. I was surprised just how rare great Artists are, and we are talking centuries here. I have compiled a list by country with the proviso that this represents my own opinion of "great"
England
John Constable
J. M. W. Turner
Francis Bacon (maybe)
Spain
Francisco Goya
Diego Velázquez
Pablo Picasso (included because everyone thinks so)
Salvador Dalí (believe it or not)
Greece
El Greco
Switzerland
Paul Klee
Germany
Max Beckmann
Albrecht Dürer
Sigmar Polke
Gerhard Richter
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Max Ernst
America
John Singer Sargent
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jackson Pollock
France
Eugène Delacroix
Gustave Courbet
Édouard Manet
Paul Cézanne
Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre Bonnard
Henri Matisse
Italy
Raphael
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Sandro Botticelli
Caravaggio
Titian
Modigliani
Belgium
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
James Ensor
René Magritte
Dutch/Netherlands
Hieronymus Bosch
Rembrandt
Paul Rubens
Vermeer
Vincent van Gogh
Mexico
Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
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