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Vija Celmins

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Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns; Latvian: Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya; born October 25, 1938) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vija Celmins has received more than 206,704 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Vija Celmins is the 1,922nd most popular painter, the 185th most popular biography from Latvia and the 5th most popular Latvian Painter.

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  • 51.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vija Celmins ranks 1,922 out of 2,023. Before her are Erik Pevernagie, Rob Gonsalves, Stuart Davis, Roland Penrose, Colin Campbell Cooper, and Ksenia Milicevic. After her are Victor Chizhikov, George Caleb Bingham, Gonzalo Pérez, Jasper Francis Cropsey, J. Alden Weir, and Antonín Slavíček.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Vija Celmins ranks 515. Before her are Angelo Damiano, Miguel Jones, Paul Bartel, Jeanne Ashworth, Hayes Jones, and Luisa Valenzuela. After her are Lester Bird, Michael Ritchie, Boris Mayorov, Saul Malatrasi, Richard Goldstone, and Jan Lála.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vija Celmins ranks 185 out of 323. Before her are Valdis Valters (1957), Ursula Donath (1931), Juris Alunāns (1832), Aigars Kalvītis (1966), Alexei Shirov (1972), and Juris Silovs (1950). After her are Vladimirs Petrovs (1907), Aleksandrs Starkovs (1955), Daina Taimiņa (1954), George Gulack (1905), Jānis Akuraters (1876), and Māris Gailis (1951).

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Among PAINTERS In Latvia

Among painters born in Latvia, Vija Celmins ranks 5. Before her are Mark Rothko (1903), Janis Rozentāls (1866), Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), and Vilhelms Purvītis (1872).

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