Who is the most influential artist of the 19th century?
by YPB Team4 votes
Painters, printmakers and a sculptor who left the next century a different set of rules. Several of them sold almost nothing while alive.
1Claude MonetGave Impressionism its name and painted the same subject until light itself was the subject.1000pts
2Auguste RodinDragged sculpture out of the academy with The Thinker and The Kiss.999pts
3Edouard ManetThe painter whose scandals moved art from the studio to modern life.881pts
4Gustave CourbetRealist who declared he could not paint an angel because he had never seen one.809pts
5J.M.W. TurnerDissolved British landscape into light decades before the Impressionists.787pts
6Edgar DegasReinvented composition using photography and Japanese prints.787pts
7Francisco GoyaCourt painter turned chronicler of war, ending in the Black Paintings.629pts
8Eugene DelacroixRomantic colourist the Impressionists studied closely.532pts
9Paul GauguinLeft Paris for Tahiti and made flat colour a language.420pts
10Paul CezanneCalled the father of modern art by both Picasso and Matisse.420pts
11Katsushika HokusaiHis prints reached Paris in the 1860s and changed European composition.420pts
12Georges SeuratTurned optical science into pointillism before dying at 31.420pts
13Vincent van GoghSold almost nothing alive, then reset what colour and brushwork could do.286pts
14Caspar David FriedrichGerman Romantic whose lone figures defined the sublime landscape.286pts
15William MorrisMade design a moral argument and founded the Arts and Crafts movement.0pts
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Comments
Hokusai's prints reached Paris in the 1860s and changed how Europeans composed a picture. Monet hung them all over his Giverny house: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways
