Here at Getty, we know our visitors pretty well.
So many of you are repeat visitors, subscribers to Get Inspired, and frequent perusers of art. Art brings inspiration and hope, and sheds light on how we understand history and the human experience. As 2021 comes to a close, we’d like to take this opportunity to revisit the artists and works of art you searched for and downloaded the most.
The Most Popular Getty Artists of 2021
It’s no surprise that Getty visitors love the classics, or that Van Gogh was the artist you all searched for the most, closely followed by Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Manet, and Degas.
Enigmatic Italian Renaissance painter Dosso Dossi also made the list of the 10 most-searched Getty artists. We’re going to guess that Allegory of Fortune, the 7-foot painting found at a flea market and strapped to the roof of a car for a trip to Christie’s, was cause for the most searching.
The classics of the Old World weren’t the only works that were high on your search list. Japanese collotypist Kazumasa Ogawa, whose gorgeous prints are some of the most beautiful examples of this unique photomechanical printing process, was the seventh most-searched artist in our collection, and a recent addition to Google Arts & Culture.
Photographer and architect Wim Swaan also made our top 10 list, and was the subject of a popular story on Twitter. His photos of Delhi, Agra, and Fatehpur Sikri capture, beautifully, life in India in the 1960s. Swaan traveled widely across five continents throughout his career, documenting art and architecture around the world. A large collection of his photos is at the Getty Research Institute.
Your Most Downloaded Artworks
Personal space was a big deal in 2021 as most of us spent most of our time locked down in it. And we loved seeing the Getty works of art you wanted at home with you.
Irises, it’s no surprise, is the painting you downloaded the most. We imagine that Simon Alexandre Clément Denis’s Study of Clouds with a Sunset near Rome, Claude Monet’s Sunrise (Marine), and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Modern Rome,
our fourth, seventh, and eighth most downloaded paintings, respectively, made great Zoom backgrounds.
Still life, a genre popular with artists who spend an extended amount of time indoors, was another popular theme. Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Apples, Claude Monet’s
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, and Jan van Huysum’s Vase of Flowers all made the top 10.
What paintings did you take home this year? Tag us @gettymuseum on social media to let us know.
