I added 10 more “best movies of all time” lists to the meta-list, bringing the total number of original source lists to over 36 (I lost exact count along the way!). The new lists (all from 2020 and 2021) were identified by Enrique, a Make Lists, Not War reader – thank you Enrique for your contribution to the website!
The new lists rearranged the meta-list considerably and added two dozen new movies, many of them recent releases. I was surprised (and a bit disheartened) to see that Pulp Fiction is now tied for first place with Citizen Kane. Don’t get me wrong, I think Pulp Fiction is an excellent movie, but I don’t quite see it as the best movie ever. But that’s the fun of lists – you may not agree with the listers, but you can’t deny that Pulp Fiction was on 33 “best films of all time” lists.
Below are the 24 new movies I added to the meta-list (which contains films that are on at least four of the original source lists) as a result of the update. They include five women and four Black Americans; the world of movie directing is finally becoming diverse. There are also six winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Gunfighter (US, 1950) Dir: Henry King (on 4 lists)
The Passenger (France/Italy/US/Spain, 1975) Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni (on 4 lists)
Gandhi (UK/India, 1982) Dir: Richard Attenborough (on 4 lists)
Edward Scissorhands (US, 1990) Dir: Tim Burton (on 4 lists)
Daughters of the Dust (US, 1991) Dir: Julie Dash (on 4 lists)
Jurassic Park (US 1993) Dir: Steven Spielberg (on 5 lists)
Forrest Gump (US, 1994) Dir: Robert Zemeckis (on 5 lists)
Clueless (US, 1995) Dir: Amy Heckerling (on 5 lists)
Titanic (US, 1997) Dir: James Cameron (on 5 lists)
Life is Beautiful (Italy, 1997) Dir: Roberto Benigni (on 4 lists)
Good Will Hunting (US, 1997) Dir: Gus Van Sant (on 5 lists)
The Hurt Locker (US, 2008) Dir: Kathryn Bigelow (on 5 lists)
Avatar (US, 2009) Dir: James Cameron (on 5 lists)
Amour (France/Austria/Germany, 2012) Dir: Michael Haneke (on 4 lists)
Carol (US/UK, 2015) Dir: Todd Haynes (on 4 lists)
La La Land (US, 2016) Dir: Damien Chazelle (on 5 lists)
Moonlight (US, 2016) Dir: Barry Jenkins (on 8 lists)
Call Me By Your Name (Italy/US/France/Brazil, 2017) Dir: Luca Guadagnino (on 4 lists)
Lady Bird (US, 2017) Dir: Greta Gerwig (on 7 lists)
Get Out (US, 2017) Dir: Jordan Peele (on 8 lists)
Roma (Mexico/US, 2018) Dir: Alfonso Cuarón (on 4 lists)
Black Panther (US, 2018) Dir: Ryan Coogler (on 4 lists)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France, 2019) Dir: Céline Sciamma (on 4 lists)
Parasite (South Korea, 2019) Dir: Bong Joon-ho (on 6 lists)
I’ve added three more “best albums of all time” lists to the best albums meta-list. Thanks to Make Lists, Not War reader Keith Nutter for the update suggestions. As before, the meta-lists includes every album on at least three of the original source lists.
In addition to rearranging the meta-list somewhat, the new lists added 35 new albums and 14 new artists. Here are the new-to-the-list artists:
The Avalanches
Beyoncé
Dave Brubeck
Daft Punk
Fleet Foxes
GZA
Lorde
Madvillain
M.I.A.
Mobb Deep
Slowdive
Solange
Talk Talk
Vampire Weekend
The latest update has increased the number of recent albums on the meta-list, which is heavily weighted towards music of the 1960s and 1970s. Here are the 15 albums on the meta-list from 2010 on.
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
The full meta-list contains 656 pieces of music (659 if you count Wagner’s Ring cycle as 4 instead of 1.) That’s a lot of music. For those who may be intimidated by such a large list, I’ve created a miniature version that contains fewer than 70 compositions (see below). This list includes only those pieces of music on at least 10 of the original source lists. It is an odd and fairly conservative list. The Germans and Austrians dominate. Most of the music is symphonic, with a number of operas, but there is very little chamber music and only one piece of solo piano music. The vast majority of the music comes from the Classical and Romantic periods (roughly 1750-1900), with nothing from the Renaissance and nothing from any composers born in the 20th Century. There in no Chopin (!?!), no Liszt, no Shostakovich, and only one work by an American composer. But it is an interesting list nonetheless, and contains some of the best known, most popular, and most highly-regarded pieces of classical music ever written. I’ve organized it by composer, with the composers listed in chronological order by date of birth. For composers with more than one piece on the list, I’ve listed the compositions in chronological order. Enjoy.
Best Classical Music: Works on 10 or More of the Original Source Lists
Antonio Vivaldi (Italy, 1678-1741)
The Four Seasons (1725)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany, 1685-1750)
Cello Suites (approx. 1717-1723)
Brandenburg Concertos (1721)
St. Matthew Passion (1727)
Goldberg Variations (1741)
Mass in B minor (1749)
George Frideric Handel (Germany, 1685-1759)
The Water Music (1717)
Messiah (1741)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria, 1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (1785)
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major (1785)
The Marriage of Figaro (1786)
Serenade No. 13 in G major “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (1787)
Symphony No. 40 in G minor (1788)
Symphony No. 41 in C major “Jupiter” (1788)
The Magic Flute (1791)
Clarinet Concerto in A major (1791)
Requiem (1792)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany, 1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor “Moonlight” (1801)
Symphony No. 3 in Eb major “Eroica” (1804)
Violin Concerto in D major (1806)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor (1808)
Symphony No. 6 in F major “Pastoral” (1808)
Symphony No. 7 in A major (1812)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor “Choral” (1824)
String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor (1826)
Gioachino Rossini (Italy, 1792-1868)
The Barber of Seville (1816)
Franz Schubert (Austria, 1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A major “The Trout” (1819)
Symphony No. 8 in B minor “Unfinished” (1822)
String Quintet in C major (1828)
Hector Berlioz (France, 1803-1869)
Symphonie Fantastique (1829)
Felix Mendelssohn (Germany, 1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture (1826)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Incidental Music (1842)
Robert Schumann (Germany, 1810-1856)
Piano Concerto in A minor (1845)
Richard Wagner (Germany, 1813-1883)
Der Ring des Nibelungen: 1. Das Rheingold (1854)
Der Ring des Nibelungen: 2. Die Walküre (1856)
Der Ring des Nibelungen: 3. Siegfried (1871)
Der Ring des Nibelungen: 4. Götterdämmerung (1874)
Giuseppe Verdi (Italy, 1813-1901)
La Traviata (1853)
Requiem (1874)
Anton Bruckner (Austria, 1824-1896)
Symphony No. 7 in E major (1881-1883, revised 1885)
Johannes Brahms (Germany, 1833-1897)
A German Requiem (1865-1868)
Violin Concerto in D major (1878)
Symphony No. 3 in F major (1883)
Symphony No. 4 in E minor (1884-1885)
Georges Bizet (France, 1838-1875)
Carmen (1874)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia, 1840-1893)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb minor (1874-1875; revised 1879 and 1888)
Swan Lake (1875-1876)
Symphony No. 5 in E minor (1888)
The Nutcracker (1892)
Symphony No. 6 in B minor “Pathetique” (1893)
Antonín Dvořák (Czech Republic, 1841-1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor “From the New World” (1893)
In 2021, I continued to work my way through the chronological “greatest books of all time” list, focusing primarily on books I already own (with occasional trips to the library). I finished the 18th Century and moved into the 19th Century. One of the highlights was the four volume Dream of the Red Chamber (also know as Story of the Stone), one of the four classic Chinese novels. (I had previously read The Water Margin and Journey to the West/Monkey, two of the other classics.) But I veered off the greatest booklist path a few times. I read two books on recent biological discoveries – I like to keep up-to-date with science. I read some art books, as part of my recent obsession with art. And I read some history/biography. My niece gave me a 2018 Frederick Douglass bio as a gift, so I read that and then of course I needed to read Douglass’s autobiography. And a friend raved about the first volume of Rick Atkinson’s American Revolution trilogy, so I checked that out as well. Another friend loaned me The Pueblo Revolt, which helped provide historical context for our vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico in September/October.
Here are the books I finished in 2021 (in chronological order by publication date), with my 1-5 star rating:
The Social Contract (1762). By Jean-Jacques Rousseau (4/5)
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). By Oliver Goldsmith (4/5)
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (1774). By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (4/5)
Dangerous Liaisons (1782) By Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (4/5)
Confessions (1782). By Jean-Jacques Rousseau (4/5)
Dream of the Red Chamber (Story of the Stone) (1791). By Cao Xeuqin (and Gao E) (5/5)
Autobiography and Selected Writings (1791). By Benjamin Franklin (4/5)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794). By William Blake (4/5)
Kant: Selections (1770-1797). By Immanuel Kant. Edited by Theodore M. Greene (4/5)
Faust: A Tragedy, Part One (1808). By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (4/5)
Persuasion (1817). By Jane Austen (4/5)
Faust, Part Two (1832). By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (4/5)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845). By Frederick Douglass (4/5)
Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (1976). By Frederick Hartt (5/5)
The Pueblo Revolt (1994). By Robert Silverberg (5/5)
Modern Art in the U.S.A.: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century (2000). By Patricia Hills (4/5)
Why Evolution Is True (2008). By Jerry A. Coyne (4/5)
Speaking of Art: Four Decades of Art in Conversation (2010). By William Furlong (4/5)
A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth (2015). By Peter D. Ward (3/5)
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018). By David W. Blight (5/5)
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (2019). By Rick Atkinson (4/5)
I’ve published meta-lists of the best films, albums, TV shows, and books of 2021. I made these lists by combining numerous “best of” lists I found online. Here are the links:
The most popular and the most critically-acclaimed rarely line up and 2021 was no exception. There was very little overlap between the bestselling films, books and music and the critics’ favorites. An exception was television, where the critics and audiences seemed to appreciate the same shows.
For example, the top grossing movies globally were:
Spider-Man: No Way Home (US, Jon Watts)
The Battle at Lake Changjin (China, Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark & Dante Lam)
Hi, Mom (China, Jia Ling)
No Time to Die (UK/US, Cary Joji Fukunaga)
F9 (US, Justin Lin)
Detective Chinatown 3 (China, Chen Sicheng)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (US, Andy Serkis)
Godzilla vs. Kong (US, Adam Wingard)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (US, Destin Daniel Cretton)
Eternals (US, Chloé Zhao)
But the top critically-acclaimed films were:
1. Licorice Pizza (US, Paul Thomas Anderson) 2. Drive My Car (Japan, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke) 3. The Power of the Dog (UK/US/New Zealand, Jane Campion) 4. Dune (US, Denis Villeneuve) 5. The Souvenir Part II (UK, Joanna Hogg) 6. The French Dispatch (US, Wes Anderson) 7. Summer of Soul (US, Ahmir Khalib Thompson) 8. The Worst Person in the World (Norway, Joachim Trier) 9. Petite Maman (France, Céline Sciamma) 10. The Velvet Underground (US, Todd Haynes) 11. The Card Counter (US, Paul Schrader) 12. Annette (France, Leos Carax) 13. The Green Knight (US/Canada, David Lowery) 14. The Lost Daughter (US, Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The most popular songs of the year were:
Save Your Tears — The Weeknd ft. Ariana Grande
MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) — Lil Nas X
Levitating — Dua Lipa feat. Da Baby
Blinding Lights — The Weeknd
drivers license — Olivia Rodrigo
good 4 u — Olivia Rodrigo
Kiss Me More — Doja Cat ft. Sza
Stay – The Kid Laroi ft. Justin Bieber
Positions – Ariana Grande
Peaches – Justin Bieber ft. Daniel Caesar & Giveon
But the most critically-acclaimed albums were:
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
Tyler, the Creator – Call Me if You Get Lost
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Low – Hey What
Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
Olivia Rodrigo – Sour
The Weather Station – Ignorance
Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
Turnstile – Glow On
For books, the story was similar. Here are the year’s bestsellers (book published in 2021):
Dog Man: Mothering Heights. By Dav Pilkey
The Four Winds. By Kristin Hannah
American Marxism. By Mark R. Levin
The Last Thing He Told Me. By Laura Dave
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. By Charlie Mackesy
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot. By Jeff Kinney
A Court of Silver Flames. By Sarah J. Maas
The Judge’s List. By John Grisham
Twelve and a Half. By Gary Vaynerchuk
The Real Anthony Fauci. By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The list of top critically-acclaimed books is very different:
1, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. By Patrick Radden Keefe 2. Harlem Shuffle. By Colson Whitehead 3. Detransition, Baby. By Torrey Peters 4. Great Circle. By Maggie Shipstead 5. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir. By Michelle Zauner 6. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. By Clint Smith 7. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance. By Hanif Abdurraqib 8. Crossroads. By Jonathan Franzen 9. Hell of a Book. By Jason Mott 10. Cloud Cuckoo Land. By Anthony Doerr 11. No One Is Talking About This. By Patricia Lockwood 12. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 13. Klara and the Sun. By Kazuo Ishiguro 14. The Prophets. By Robert Jones Jr. 15. Afterparties: Stories. By Anthony Veasna So
I spend most of my time on Make Lists, Not War compiling best-of lists made by other people into meta-lists. I find this to be an enjoyable pastime – I always learn a lot making each meta-list, and the number of hits the website gets from folks around the world indicates that these lists are useful and/or interesting to other people.
But what about my personal best-of lists? Like so many listers out there, I love to make lists of my favorites. I keep running tallies of the books, films, and albums that I have rated 5/5 stars. These lists are quite long (295 books, 266 films, and 245 albums). Those lists are available on the website. But recently I decided to make smaller lists of favorite albums and favorite books – I decided to limit myself to just 150 books and albums (I didn’t try this with movies – too painful). So these aren’t all my favorites, just some of them.
I’ve revised the meta-list of contemporary artists (and selected works) by adding 10 more lists, bringing the total number of original source lists to more than 20. I first created this meta-list in 2015 and a great deal has happened in the art world since then, so this new list has a lot more artists. In fact, there are 44 new artists on the list, from all over the world. Here are their names, dates, and countries where they have worked. For each artist, I researched their more-often mentioned works of art by doing an informal Internet survey. I have added these new works of art (there are several hundred) to my visual arts checklist and also to the geographical lists that tell where you can find the artwork. Many of the listed artworks cannot be found in museums, but may be viewed at occasional exhibitions or installations, or at certain art galleries.
The list focuses on pop, rock, R&B, country, and folk. I excluded classical, jazz, and blues covers, except in few cases where pop, rock or country artists covered a jazz standard or blues song. The list is presented in chronological order.
That’s All Right (1954) – Elvis Presley. Original: Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup (1946).
The closing of museums during the pandemic put me in a state of art withdrawal. In search of a fix, I traveled to various locations in the Greater Boston area looking for publicly-accessible art. On several days in June 2020, I wandered around downtown Boston, looking for public art. One day, I walked along the tree-lined Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood and photographed the various statues and monuments along the way. The Mall was designed by Arthur Gilman, using the new boulevards of Paris as his inspiration, and was created between 1858 and 1888. The dominant trees were American elms, although many of them have succumbed to Dutch elm disease; other tree species include sweetgum, green ash, maple, linden, zelkova, and Japanese pagoda. Interestingly, public sculpture was not a component of Gilman’s original plan, although it is now a highlight of the Mall.
The tour begins at the Public Garden (Arlington Street) and moves west to finish at Charlesgate East. For more information and photos, check out the website of the Friends of the Public Garden.
1. ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1865) Sculptor: William Rimmer
Born on the Caribbean island of Nevis (and thus not eligible to be president), Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) helped draft the U.S. Constitution. He founded the Federalist Party, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the New York Post. He was George Washington’s secretary of the treasury and authored the nation’s early financial policies. He was killed in a duel with then-Vice President Aaron Burr.
2. GENERAL JOHN GLOVER (1875) Sculptor: Martin Milmore
A merchant and fisherman who was born in Salem, Massachusetts and lived in Marblehead, John Glover (1732-1797) served as a brigadier general during the American Revolutionary War. The regiment he commanded evacuated George Washington’s army after losing the Battle of Long Island, and ferried Washington and his troops across the Delaware to surprise Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton.
3. PATRICK ANDREW COLLINS (1908) Sculptors: Henry Kitson and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson
Patrick Collins (1844-1905) was an Irish immigrant who became a prominent Boston politician. He served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1868-1871, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1883-1889 and as Mayor of Boston from 1902 until his death in 1905.
4. VENDOME FIREFIGHTERS’ MEMORIAL (1997) Sculptor: Theodore Clausen Landscape Architect: Peter White
The memorial honors the nine firefighters who were killed on June 17, 1972 in a fire at the Hotel Vendome, which was located across the street from the memorial.
5. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON (1886) Sculptor: Olin Levi Warner
The most prominent Boston abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) published the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator from 1831 until 1865 and was a co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He fought to give women the right to vote and supported other social reforms.
6. SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON (1982) Sculptor: Penelope Jencks
Boston-born Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was a Harvard professor and distinguished historian, who specialized in naval and maritime history. Morison was also an accomplished sailor who recreated Columbus’s voyages using the original log books.
7. BOSTON WOMEN’S MEMORIAL (2003) Sculptor: Meredith Bergmann
The Boston Women’s Memorial includes representations of Lucy Stone (left), Abigail Adams (center), and Phillis Wheatley (right). Abigail Adams (1744-1818) was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She was married to second U.S. President John Adams and served as First Lady from 1797-1801. She served as informal advisor to John Adams, who consulted her on most matters. Abigail Adams was also the mother of sixth U.S. President John Quincy Adams. Her letters are the source of important information about the early United States. Massachusetts women’s rights activist Lucy Stone (1818–1893) was a public speaker and writer who helped to organize the first National Women’s Rights Convention and establish the Women’s National Loyal League and the American Women’s Suffrage Association. She was also an abolitionist who campaigned for the passage of the 13th Amendment. An acclaimed poet, Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was born in West Africa, sold into slavery and brought to Boston, where she was sold to the Wheatley family. In 1773, she published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first book of poetry published by an African-American, which received praise from many, including George Washington. Following the publication of the book, Wheatley was emancipated.
8. DOMINGO F. SARMIENTO (1973) Sculptor: Yvette Compagnion
Domingo Sarmiento (1811-1888) was an Argentine writer, intellectual, and politician who became the 7th president of Argentina, serving from 1868-1874. Sarmiento modeled his country’s education system on that of Boston’s Horace Mann, and Argentina gave this statue to the city in gratitude.
9. LEIF ERIKSSON (1887) Sculptor: Anne Whitney
Leif Eriksson (c. 970-c. 1020 CE) (also spelled Erikson) was a Norse explorer from Iceland, who may have been the first European to establish a settlement on continental North America. Some scholars believe that the settlement of Vinland described in Icelandic sagas corresponds to a Norse settlement, remains of which have been discovered in Newfoundland, Canada at L’Anse aux Meadows. The statue in Boston, which is the oldest public sculpture of Leif Eriksson in the U.S., was donated by patent medicine maker Eben Horsford, who mistakenly believed that Vinland was located on Boston’s Charles River.
For other Pandemic Art Adventures, check out these posts:
I’ve updated the Best Works of Art lists, both the ranked (with the artworks on the most lists at the top) and chronological versions. (The chronological version, in seven parts, is called Art History 101.) I’ve added a number of new lists to the meta-list and also changed the formatting somewhat. Hope you enjoy.
I’ve done a little analysis of the entire artworks meta-list. There are a total of 555 artworks (actually more because some entries encompass series or artworks with multiple versions). There are artworks from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America, although the vast majority are from Europe.
Here are the artists with the most works of art on the meta-list:
9 works of art Rembrandt (The Netherlands, 1606-1669) paintings, prints
8 works of art Michelangelo (Italy, 1475-1564) sculptures, paintings, architecture Pieter Bruegel the Elder (The Netherlands, c. 1525/1530-1569) paintings
7 works of art Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452-1519) paintings, drawings Raphael (Italy, 1483-1520) paintings Titian (Italy, 1488/1490-1576) paintings Vincent van Gogh (The Netherlands, 1853-1890) paintings, prints
6 works of art Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471-1528) paintings, prints Francisco Goya (Spain, 1746-1828) paintings, prints
5 works of art Jan van Eyck (Belgium, before 1390/1395-1441) paintings Piero della Francesca (Italy, c. 1415-1492) paintings Peter Paul Rubens (Germany, 1577-1640) paintings Diego Velázquez (Spain, 1599-1660) paintings Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italy, 1598-1680) sculpture, architecture Claude Monet (France, 1840-1926) paintings Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973) paintings, sculpture, collage Jackson Pollock (US, 1912-1956) paintings
4 works of art Donatello (Italy, c. 1386-1466) sculpture Giovanni Bellini (Italy, c. 1430-1516) paintings El Greco (Greece, 1541-1614) paintings Caravaggio (Italy, 1571-1610) paintings Johannes Vermeer (The Netherlands, 1632-1675) paintings J.M.W. Turner (UK, 1775-1851) paintings Édouard Manet (France, 1832-1883) paintings Paul Cézanne (France, 1839-1906) paintings Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917) sculpture Georges Seurat (France, 1859-1891) paintings Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954) paintings, sculptures, prints
3 works of art Phidias (Greece, c. 480-430 BCE) sculpture Paolo Uccello (Italy, 1397-1475) paintings Andrea Mantegna (Italy, c. 1431-1506) paintings Hans Holbein the Younger (Germany, c. 1497-1543) paintings Tintoretto (Italy, 1518-1594) paintings Frans Hals (Belgium, c. 1582-1666) paintings Jean-Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721) paintings Théodore Géricault (France, 1791-1824) paintings Paul Gauguin (France, 1848-1903) paintings, sculpture Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) paintings; sculpture
Yes, it’s mostly men. Dead white men. I’m sorry. The contemporary art lists are more diverse. But there are a few works by women on the meta-list.
Works by Women Artists Unknown Women Embroiderers: The Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1045) Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith Beheading Holofernes (1611-1613) Rosa Bonheur: Ploughing in the Nivernais (1849) Mary Cassatt: The Child’s Bath (c. 1891) Frida Kahlo: The Two Fridas (1939) Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and Sea (1952)
The artworks span many centuries. Here are the results by time period:
