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The most famous contemporary artists worldwide who work mainly as painters - ranked by attention since 2004, as measured by the Art Report method. These include, for example, oil paint on canvas or wood, gouache and watercolour, as well as fresco and its contemporary paint art variant the graffiti art.
| ranking | artist's name | country | lives in | birth date | born in | medium | total AR-Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andy Warhol | US | New York | 1928 | Pittsburgh | painting | 28601 |
| 2 | Gerhard Richter | DE | Cologne | 1932 | Dresden | painting | 22086 |
| 3 | Pablo Picasso | ES | Cannes | 1881 | Malaga | painting | 20163 |
| 4 | Sigmar Polke | DE | Cologne | 1941 | Oels | painting | 16123 |
| 5 | Martin Kippenberger | DE | Düsseldorf | 1953 | Dortmund | painting | 14295 |
| 6 | Georg Baselitz | DE | Munich | 1938 | Deutschbaselitz | painting | 14225 |
| 7 | Francis Alÿs | BE | Mexico City | 1959 | Antwerpen | painting | 13659 |
| 8 | Ed Ruscha | US | Los Angeles | 1937 | Omaha | painting | 13564 |
| 9 | Robert Rauschenberg | US | Captiva | 1925 | Port Arthur | painting | 13516 |
| 10 | Anselm Kiefer | DE | Paris | 1945 | Donaueschingen | painting | 11309 |
| 11 | Richard Prince | PA | New York | 1949 | Panama | painting | 10630 |
| 12 | Roy Lichtenstein | US | New York | 1923 | New York | painting | 10295 |
| 13 | Cy Twombly | US | Rome | 1928 | Lexington | painting | 9700 |
| 14 | Yayoi Kusama | JP | New York | 1929 | Nagano | painting | 9457 |
| 15 | Alighiero Boetti | IT | Rome | 1940 | Turin | painting | 8976 |
| 16 | Jonathan Meese | DE | Berlin | 1971 | Tokio | painting | 8856 |
| 17 | Jasper Johns | US | Stony Point | 1930 | Allendale | painting | 8837 |
| 18 | Marlene Dumas | ZA | Amsterdam | 1953 | Kapstadt | painting | 8770 |
| 19 | Günther Förg | DE | Munich | 1952 | Füssen | painting | 8631 |
| 20 | Albert Oehlen | DE | La Palma | 1954 | Krefeld | painting | 8577 |
| 21 | Imi Knoebel | DE | Düsseldorf | 1940 | Dessau | painting | 8241 |
| 22 | Wilhelm Sasnal | PL | Warsaw | 1972 | Tarnow | painting | 8184 |
| 23 | Lucio Fontana | AR | Varwese/IT | 1899 | Rosario de Santa Fe | painting | 8086 |
| 24 | Josef Albers | DE | New Haven | 1888 | painting | 8069 | |
| 25 | Claes Oldenburg | US | New York | 1929 | Stockholm | painting | 7937 |
| 26 | Jörg Immendorff | DE | Düsseldorf | 1945 | Bleckede | painting | 7861 |
| 27 | Max Ernst | DE | Paris | 1891 | Brühl | painting | 7673 |
| 28 | Ellsworth Kelly | US | New York | 1923 | Newburgh | painting | 7514 |
| 29 | Yves Klein | FR | Paris | 1928 | Nizza | painting | 7465 |
| 30 | Ilya & Emilia Kabakov | UA | New York | 1933 | Dnejpropetrowsk | painting | 7438 |
