Most famous paintings

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Time Out Magazine produced a list of the most famous paintings. 

While I would generally agree with them, in my opinion, one painting that is missing is The Scream by Edvard Munch (pictured above). Although not everyone's cup of tea, the painting is certainly well known by those with no particular interest in art.

I would have also included one of the works by Andy Worhul and Banksi but I wonder of these two artists works would age very well. By this I mean, would they be as cherised in a century as they are now?

While I'm on that topic, here are lyrics to Don McLeans song Vincent. Can you guess which painter it is about and which paintings of his is being refered to in this song?

Image: By Edvard Munch - National Gallery of Norway 8 January 2019 (upload date) by Coldcreation, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69541493

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