What artists are artnet’s users most commonly searching for? Every month, we put the results of these searches under the microscope in order to analyze what drives artists’ rising and falling popularity.

As he had for the previous two months, controversial British photographer David Hamilton, known for his depictions of nude adolescent girls, topped the list. The 83-year-old artist was found dead at his Paris home in November, after four former models came forward and accused him of rape.

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As in past months, the top 10 are dominated by popular street artists like KAWS and Banksy; edgy photographers including Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jock Sturges; and household names like Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

The most dramatic move on the list, which artnet tracks month to month, is a meteoric rise by German figurative sculptor Otto Schmidt-Hofer (1837–1925), at number 35. The artist came out of nowhere to claim the spot; he hasn’t been in the news and has had no dramatic auction sales recently, and his auction high, according to the artnet Price Database, is just above $26,000. That price was achieved in 2008.

This was a big month for little-known artists on the list. American sculptor Jack Dowd landed nearby at number 40 despite no previous appearances; Brooke Shields–obsessed American artist Garry Gross leapt from number 144 to 46; and French comic book artist Gotlib debuted at 70.

See the list of top artists for December below:

1. David Hamilton
2. Jock Sturges
3. Banksy
4. Andy Warhol
5. Nobuyoshi Araki
6. Pablo Picasso
7. Diane Arbus
8. KAWS
9. Robert Mapplethorpe
10. Helmut Newton
11. Keith Haring
12. Nan Goldin
13. Jean-Michel Basquiat
14. Alec Monopoly
15. Roy Lichtenstein
16. Marc Chagall
17. Salvador Dalí
18. Joel-Peter Witkin
19. Victor Vasarely
20. Yayoi Kusama
21. David Hockney
22. Francesca Woodman
23. Sally Mann
24. Fernando Botero
25. Bernard Buffet
26. Gerhard Richter
27. Takashi Murakami
28. Shepard Fairey
29. Joan Miró
30. Damien Hirst
31. Jeff Koons
32. Yoshitomo Nara
33. Liu Bolin
34. Sebastião Salgado
35. Otto Schmidt-Hofer
36. René Magritte
37. Alexander Calder
38. Anish Kapoor
39. Tanja Playner
40. Jack Dowd
41. Andy Goldsworthy
42. Wayne Thiebaud
43. Robert Rauschenberg
44. Grayson Perry
45. Jim Dine
46. Garry Gross
47. Cy Twombly
48. Konstantin Razumov
49. Thomas Ruff
50. Henri Matisse
51. Tracey Emin
52. Anselm Kiefer
53. Alex Katz
54. Wolfgang Tillmans
55. Frank Stella
56. Milo Manara
57. Brainwash
58. Peter Doig
59. Philip-Lorca diCorcia
60. Candida Höfer
61. Otto Dix
62. Vik Muniz
63. George Condo
64. Jackson Pollock
65. Chuck Close
66. David LaChapelle
67. Andreas Gursky
68. Pierre Soulages
69. Emil Nolde
70. Gotlib
71. Niki de Saint Phalle
72. Egon Schiele
73. Francis Bacon
74. Gregory Crewdson
75. Irina Ionesco
76. William Klein
77. Robert Arneson
78. Raoul Dufy
79. Georg Baselitz
80. John Baldessari
81. Maurice Utrillo
82. Tom Wesselmann
83. Cindy Sherman
84. Jean Dubuffet
85. Ed Ruscha
86. Marina Abramovic
87. Harland Miller
88. Barbara Kruger
89. Peter Max
90. Yves Klein
91. George Grosz
92. Daniel Richter
93. Duane Michals
94. Saul Leiter
95. Jenny Holzer
96. Rufino Tamayo
97. Christian Boltanski
98. Fernand Léger
99. Robert Longo
100. Herb Ritts
101. Maurice de Vlaminck
102. Karel Appel
103. Bettina Rheims
104. Kehinde Wiley
105. Helen Frankenthaler
106. Bert Stern
107. Henri Cartier-Bresson
108. Larry Clark
109. Pierre et Gilles
110. Bernd and Hilla Becher
111. Antoni Tàpies
112. Will McBride
113. Sigmar Polke
114. Man Ray
115. Thomas Struth
116. Peter Paul Rubens
117. Grandma Moses
118. Sam Francis
119. Josef Albers
120. William Kentridge
121. Paul Klee
122. Georg Emanuel Opitz
123. Ellsworth Kelly
124. Annette Messager
125. Wassily Kandinsky
126. Julian Opie
127. David Lynch
128. Peter Blake
129. Bridget Riley
130. Max Ernst
131. Sol LeWitt
132. Imi Knoebel
133. Joseph Beuys
134. Robert Indiana
135. Alberto Giacometti
136. Käthe Kollwitz
137. Walasse Ting
138. Richard Prince
139. Jenny Saville
140. Christopher Wool
141. Margaret Keane
142. Franz Frank
143. Kees van Dongen
144. Mel Ramos
145. Agnes Martin
146. Robert Motherwell
147. Raymond Pettibon
148. Marcel Dyf
149. Hiroshi Sugimoto
150. Gerda Wegener
151. Louise Bourgeois
152. Arman
153. Lucio Fontana
154. Raphael Soyer
155. Graham Sutherland
156. Albert Marquet
157. Martin Parr
158. Richard Estes
159. Edward Burtynsky
160. Joan Mitchell
161. C. Escher
162. Günther Uecker
163. Brassaï
164. RETNA
165. Moïse Kisling
166. Anton Pieck
167. Harry Benson
168. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
169. Kiki Smith
170. Claude Monet
171. Willem de Kooning
172. Tony Cragg
173. Gustav Klimt
174. Jasper Johns
175. Diego Rivera
176. Nick Brandt
177. Dennis Sheehan
178. Swoon
179. Ellen von Unwerth
180. Jan Saudek
181. Erwin Olaf
182. Lucian Freud
183. Aslan
184. Jeremy Mann
185. Ernesto Neto
186. Francis Picabia
187. Georges Braque
188. Ronald Ventura
189. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
190. Kara Walker
191. Sonia Delaunay
192. Irving Penn
193. Markus Lüpertz
194. Wolf Kahn
195. Edward Weston
196. Adrian Ghenie
197. Gio Ponti
198. Hans Hartung
199. William Eggleston
200. Erwin Wurm
201. Paul Jenkins
202. Harding Meyer
203. Richard Avedon
204. Arnulf Rainer
205. Serpieri
206. Mark Ryden
207. Robert Doisneau
208. Julie Mehretu
209. James Rosenquist
210. Andres Serrano
211. Michael Carson
212. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
213. Wifredo Lam
214. Andrew Wyeth
215. Jonathan Meese
216. Maurizio Cattelan
217. Per Kirkeby
218. Pierre Bonnard
219. Zdzislaw Beksinski
220. Yaacov Agam
221. Vivian Maier
222. Bernar Venet
223. Auguste Rodin
224. Fritz Aigner
225. Zao Wou-Ki
226. Shirin Neshat
227. Manolo Valdés
228. Le Corbusier
229. Georges Rouault
230. Annie Leibovitz
231. Stanley Donwood
232. Yue Minjun
233. Duane Hanson
234. Miquel Barceló
235. James Rizzi
236. Marilyn Minter
237. Sean Scully
238. Lee Ufan
239. Lyonel Feininger
240. Günther Förg
241. René Gruau
242. Donald Judd
243. Peter Lindbergh
244. Janet Fish
245. Vernon Ward
246. Jörg Immendorff
247. John Cage
248. Norman Rockwell
249. Mark Rothko
250. Jean Prouvé
251. Milton Avery
252. Richard Serra
253. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
254. Guglielmo von Plüschow
255. Roberto Matta
256. Jean Paul Riopelle
257. Pierre Alechinsky
258. Patrick Hughes
259. Vanessa Beecroft
260. Eduardo Chillida
261. Edgar Degas
262. Erich Heckel
263. Edvard Munch
264. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
265. Niclas Castello
266. Sue Coe
267. Ansel Adams
268. André Kertész
269. Richard Diebenkorn
270. Peter Beard
271. George Platt Lynes
272. Lucien Clergue
273. Julian Schnabel
274. Heinrich Zille
275. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
276. Stephan Balkenhol
277. Alphonse Mucha
278. Elizabeth Catlett
279. Piet Mondrian
280. Massimo Vitali
281. Rodney Smith
282. Ismail Gulgee
283. Kazuo Shiraga
284. Claude Lalanne
285. Mel Bochner
286. Cecily Brown
287. Romero Britto
288. William Christenberry
289. Marie Laurencin
290. Carmen Herrera
291. Henri Fantin-Latour
292. Max Liebermann
293. Alice Neel
294. Qi Baishi
295. Albrecht Dürer
296. Georges Mathieu
297. Henry Moore
298. Thomas Hart Benton
299. Montague Dawson
300. Charlotte Perriand