Sienna Bentley

We asked, you delivered.

To celebrate World Art Day 2025, we put some feelers out on Instagram to gauge the people’s top picks of art throughout time. We received a wonderfully eclectic range of responses, from 1550s paintings and popular classics to performance pieces and 21st-century photography, there’s something for everyone, from every era.

Here’s what you chose.

Rest Energy (1980), Marina Abramović – performance art

Three Dancers in an Exercise Hall (1880), Edgar Degas – oil on canvas

The Starry Night (1889), Vincent Van Gogh – oil on canvas

Photographing high society at play, Slim Aarons

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1830), Katsushika Hokusai – woodblock print

The Lovers (1928), Rene Magritte – oil on canvas

Lighting Up Aldersgate (1999), Dennis Creffield – oil stick on paper

The Luxury Collection, Europe, Pia Riverola – photography

The Ambassadors (1553), Hans Holbein – oil on wood

Breath on Piano (1993), Gabriel Orozco – chromogenic colour print