"Most revered"? By whom?

Spare me. They are the most revered by the majority of the humans who have an opinion on art, and you know it. I hate this childish semantic quibbling bullshit that's taken over academia. Now, you may say "that's a Western-centric view of art, and not reflective of the multicultural state of the world!" But in 2016, after almost a hundred years of global media inundation, that's really not true. Picasso, Michelangelo, and Van Gogh (among others, obviously) really three of the most currently revered artists on the planet -- even if that's only because the "myth" of these artists has been perpetuated so intensely by academia, the art market, and pop culture at-large, that it's worked its way to the farthest corners of the map. But I'm not making a cultural statement, I'm making a mathematical one. I would literally bet my life on the fact that if you asked everyone in the world, "Who is the most respected and admired artist of all time?" three of the top ten vote-getters would be Picasso, Michelangelo, and Van Gogh. Certainly uneducated populations in rural China or rural India may have no idea who these artists are, but there's a decent chance they have no idea who even their own region's greatest artists are, and so the likelihood that any sort of consensus would be reached on "most revered artist" is essentially nil, and therefore does not affect the outcome one way or another. I also guarantee you most people can't even name a single work by these artists -- but they do know the names of the artists. Does that mean they're the best artists of all time? Almost certainly not. But it's silly to argue over the interpretation of "most revered artists", when it's clearly correct in this case. Also, you're condescending.