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Which famous artwork is the most over-reproduced?

by YPB Team

The works you have seen a thousand times without going to a museum: on mugs, phone cases, dorm walls and dentists' waiting rooms.

  1. Mona Lisa — ranked #11
    Mona Lisa
    Leonardo's portrait, reproduced so often the original disappoints visitors.
    1000pts
  2. Vitruvian Man — ranked #22
    Vitruvian Man
    Leonardo's proportional figure, printed on everything from textbooks to gym walls.
    916pts
  3. Sunflowers — ranked #33
    Sunflowers
    Van Gogh's vase, the standard-issue kitchen print.
    812pts
  4. The Thinker — ranked #44
    The Thinker
    Rodin's seated figure, cast and copied into parks worldwide.
    750pts
  5. Girl with a Pearl Earring — ranked #55
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Vermeer's turbaned sitter, given a novel and a film.
    671pts
  6. The Scream — ranked #66
    The Scream
    Munch's figure, absorbed into the emoji set.
    670pts
  7. Campbell's Soup Cans — ranked #77
    Campbell's Soup Cans
    Warhol's supermarket shelf, sold back as merchandise.
    600pts
  8. American Gothic — ranked #88
    American Gothic
    Grant Wood's farm couple, parodied for ninety years.
    520pts
  9. The Birth of Venus — ranked #99
    The Birth of Venus
    Botticelli's shell, endlessly cropped to one face.
    429pts
  10. The Last Supper — ranked #1010
    The Last Supper
    Leonardo's mural, reproduced on tapestry in a million dining rooms.
    428pts
  11. The Great Wave off Kanagawa — ranked #1111
    The Great Wave off Kanagawa
    Hokusai's wave, now a default T-shirt print.
    428pts
  12. The Kiss — ranked #1212
    The Kiss
    Klimt's gold-leaf embrace, a fixture of student walls.
    428pts
  13. The Creation of Adam — ranked #1313
    The Creation of Adam
    Michelangelo's two fingers, used to sell everything.
    323pts
  14. The Starry Night — ranked #1414
    The Starry Night
    Van Gogh's night sky, now also a phone case and a jigsaw.
    323pts
  15. Monet's Water Lilies — ranked #1515
    Monet's Water Lilies
    On more posters, mugs and hotel corridors than almost any other painting.
    200pts

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Comments

Reproduction is so complete that Louvre visitors regularly report the Mona Lisa as disappointingly small. The list nobody wants to win: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways

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