Global Art Power 30

You can hardly produce new without absorbing all of the positive from past. Many examples has proven that best new inventions are based on the knowledge of previous but never came from nowhere. In this comparison chart is the selection of 30 artists. We intended to measure socio-cultural effect of their art in the present time. 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

http://www.tate.org.uk/
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Between the Living and the Dead

The dead is above living. Dead is God. Death is absolute. The fear is a superb ruler. The absence of fear is only for the dead. Fear is the king. Death is superior. Everything was dead and everything will be dead. The power of the ruler is built upon power to control death. No one can withdraw death yet. Someone born and die by multiple reasons and billions circumstances. Death is a biggest commodity of all trades, whatever you pay your payment is to make a distance from the dead. Death is the something what makes you love this extremely fragile life. All of the great art is purified death and the biggest graves torque your today's existence into the feelings. The Murder in Istanbul by Nicholas Chistiakov is an another effort to scream for eternity.

1. Nicholas Chistiakov, The Murder in Istanbul, 2008, 60 x 40 inches © Nicholas Chistiakov http://www.nicholaschistiakov.com. Photography: Allan Martin Leer

Diamonds for an Emperor, new art of Damien Hirst

Empires never die. Once the one becoming a history another will reign above others. Damien Hirst almost made an emperor's crown and later bought it himself. Damien Hirst has spent a lot of money on diamonds to produce perhaps the most expensive artwork of our times, "For the Love of God", a diamond encrusted human skull. He has found the original skull in a small shop in Islington.
Is the idea to make a skull out of diamonds kind of revolutionary one? Perhaps not, Damien Hirst has done more inventive works, but the shocker for this one was the price of diamonds itself, as well as a quantity of shiny minerals covering the skull. Exhibition "Beyond Belief" is a rare happening in the contemporary art, when a gallery opening attracts such publicity and crowds. Damien Hirst is a rare contemporary mega brand in the world of art. There is a just a few newspapers what has never written about him. Or is there any? Anyway some people got time to celebrate their achievements, and quite frankly they can do anything they want now. Damien Hirst has made a big name for himself, and even if he will begin to produce art purely for fun, his previous achievements is enough to secure for him a place among all times greats. 

1. (not illustrated) Damien Hirst, For the love of God, 2007, diamonds and human teeth
2. More works by Damien Hirst
http://www.tate.org.uk/pharmacy
3. Requiem, Damien Hirst's recent exhibition at Pinchuk art centre
http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/exhibitions/past/8826