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AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:

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-Henri Matisse
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-Kasimir Malevich
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-Frida Kahlo
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-Salvador Dalí
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-Mark Rothko
-Edward Hopper
-Lucian Freud
-Richard Serra
-Rene Magritte
-David Hockney
-Philip Guston
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-Pierre Bonnard
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
-Max Ernst
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-Georg Baselitz
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-Karel Appel
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-Alexander Archipenko
-Anthony Caro
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-Clyfford Still
-Luc Tuymans
-Claes Oldenburg

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4 NEW SENSATIONS: A CHANNEL 4 PRIZE FOR SAATCHI ONLINE 2009 UK GRADUATES
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Matthew Musgrave
(24 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London)
Chelsea

I am interested in exploring the specific and problematic demands on the viewer that small scale works demand. Their physicality is at odds with their small size: they block the quasi-bodily relationship of larger work, and instead invite a probing, interrogative engagement. The varying distances at which such small paintings operate are exploited. The works appear jewel-like on the wall and lure the viewer to inspect minute d ...[more]
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The supports vary in size and shape but often return to the format of a square. The notion of the square as a neutral, ordered shape is played with and corrupted. At this dimension the edges of the support become precarious as the paint stacks up against the sides, the regular nature of the square is lost almost entirely and engulfed by thick clots of paint. Through the square being hypothetically rotated and chopped, the paintings make allusion to sublime, idealised landscape painting. An attempt to construct vast mountainous effects becomes part of a ‘loop’ of figuration and spatial illusion which collapses in on itself, returning the viewer to an empirical reality of materials and structure; the paintings inevitably short circuit their own sense of grandeur.
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