30+ Most popular Artist Watch posts – Dec. 2010
1 – John Kenn – 35, 780 views for our two John Kenn posts between 23rd November and 23rd December 2010. Most of these were for the original Artist Watch post, just a little over 1,500 for this Showcase post | On Stumble Upon there have been 379, 726 hits to date since John Kenn was first posted on 10th May 2010.
Though the continuing popularity of John Kenn is unsurprsing by now, there have been several “new entries” this past month. We hope it will be interesting for you to see who these artists are and to enjoy some art browsing, perhaps making some new discoveries along the way.
A little note: while we don’t agree with Oscar Wilde that “Everything Popular is Wrong”, neither do we think that what is popular is best. We aim to post art that is high quality and in some way exceptional, rather than art that will be popular. And if some great artists we posted go unnoticed and never make it to the popularity charts, that is disappointing and a little sad, but we will continue to post art we think is outstanding regardless.
All the same it is intriguing, the business of keeping an eye on what goes down well, and it is very gratifying when an artist we especially appreciate makes it into these lists. Like the next two artists below, who started getting attention many weeks after the respective posts first went up.
2 – Tim Simmons – 29, 961 views | S.U. 32, 722 since October 27th 2010
3 – Peggy Wolf – 17, 333 views | S.U. 20K since 12th September 2010
4 – Fernando Herenu aka Pulpo – 7, 129 views since 6th December 2010
5 – Sylvia Ji – 5, 643, first posted 18th January 2010
6 – Richard Estes – 5,159 views | S.U. 26, 893 since posting on April 8th 2010
7 – Julie Heffernan – 5,461 in last 30 days| This page went missing from S.U. for many weeks but still a mightily impressive 244, 458 views of this work since 23rd April 2010
The four posts below all had over 2000 hits in the past 30 days:
8 – Arthur Rackham’s Alice in Wonderland Illustrations – 3,216 views
9 – Gallery of Birds – 2,775 views between December 5th and 23rd
10 – Rene Rickabaugh – 2,561 | on S.U. 37K since 15th May 2010
11 – Don Hong-Oai – 2, 048, first posted 13th November 2010
This next group of posts all had over 1000 hits
12 – Rodney Smith – 1,824 recent views | 53K on S.U. since 8th January 2010
13 – Stephanie Kubo – 1,747 views in the past 30 days
14 – My Name is Black – 1,704, first posted 12th November 2010
15 – Sun Xun – 1,601 recent views | 8,433 on S.U. since 21st November 2009
16 – Bene Rohlmann – 1 ,574 views in past 30 days | S.U. 53K since 8th Jan 2010
17 – Celebrating the Art of the Doodle: 20 Awesome Doodles – 1,392 recent views contribute to a cumulative total of 246K on S.U., since this showcase was first posted on 13th March 2010
18 – Angela Bacon-Kidwell – 1,371 views in the past 30 days
19 – David Salle – 1,301, mainly this past month though first posted April 7th 2010
20 – 18 Photography Tumblrs that Rock – 1,216
21 – Eva Eun-Sil Han – 1,195, posted on 14th November 2010
22 – 28 Recommended Art and Design Tumblrs – 1,186 recent views
23 – Vincent Hui – 1,128, posted on 20th November 2010
24 – Craig Hunter Parker – 1,103, posted May 4th 2010
25 – Michael Craig-Martin – 1,069, posted April 30th 2010 and unnoticed till now
26 – Lalla Essaydi 1,014 views since posting on 17th December 2010
27 – Mario Gomez – 1009, another recent post
28 – Andrew B. Myers – 1,002 since first posted on 23rd November 2010
And this last group have each had over 900 hits over the past 30 days
29 – Tim Flach – 996 views, posted 20th November 2010
30 – Oleg Denisenko – 986 | S.U. 1,211 since 5th June 2010
31 – Tiffany Bozic – 936 | S.U. 1428 since 2nd Feb 2010
32 – Irene Hardwicke Olivieri – 911 views in the past 30 days
Special Mention
This artist has been getting a lot of attention these past few days, but it has not registered on our analytics for some reason. Nate Frizzell currently has 3,344 hits on S.U.
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