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TOP 200 ARTISTS
OF THE 20TH CENTURY
TO NOW
TIMES READERS AND SAATCHI ONLINE VISITORS VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE ARTISTS
AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:
| - | Pablo Picasso |
| - | Paul Cezanne |
| - | Gustav Klimt |
| - | Claude Monet |
| - | Marcel Duchamp |
| - | Henri Matisse |
| - | Jackson Pollock |
| - | Andy Warhol |
| - | Willem De Kooning |
| - | Piet Mondrian |
| - | Paul Gauguin |
| - | Francis Bacon |
| - | Robert Rauschenberg |
| - | Georges Braque |
| - | Wassily Kandinsky |
| - | Constantin Brancusi |
| - | Kasimir Malevich |
| - | Jasper Johns |
| - | Frida Kahlo |
| - | Martin Kippenberger |
| - | Paul Klee |
| - | Egon Schiele |
| - | Donald Judd |
| - | Bruce Nauman |
| - | Alberto Giacometti |
| - | Salvador Dalí |
| - | Auguste Rodin |
| - | Mark Rothko |
| - | Edward Hopper |
| - | Lucian Freud |
| - | Richard Serra |
| - | Rene Magritte |
| - | David Hockney |
| - | Philip Guston |
| - | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| - | Pierre Bonnard |
| - | Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| - | Max Ernst |
| - | Diane Arbus |
| - | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| - | Cy Twombly |
| - | Max Beckmann |
| - | Barnett Newman |
| - | Giorgio De Chirico |
| - | Roy Lichtenstein |
| - | Edvard Munch |
| - | Pierre Auguste Renoir |
| - | Man Ray |
| - | Henry Moore |
| - | Cindy Sherman |
| - | Jeff Koons |
| - | Tracey Emin |
| - | Damien Hirst |
| - | Yves Klein |
| - | Henri Rousseau |
| - | Chaim Soutine |
| - | Arshile Gorky |
| - | Amedeo Modigliani |
| - | Umberto Boccioni |
| - | Jean Dubuffet |
| - | Eva Hesse |
| - | Edouard Vuillard |
| - | Carl Andre |
| - | Juan Gris |
| - | Lucio Fontana |
| - | Franz Kline |
| - | David Smith |
| - | Joseph Beuys |
| - | Alexander Calder |
| - | Louise Bourgeois |
| - | Marc Chagall |
| - | Gerhard Richter |
| - | Balthus |
| - | Joan Miro |
| - | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| - | Frank Stella |
| - | Georg Baselitz |
| - | Francis Picabia |
| - | Jenny Saville |
| - | Dan Flavin |
| - | Alfred Stieglitz |
| - | Anselm Kiefer |
| - | Matthew Barney |
| - | George Grosz |
| - | Bernd And Hilla Becher |
| - | Sigmar Polke |
| - | Brice Marden |
| - | Maurizio Cattelan |
| - | Sol LeWitt |
| - | Chuck Close |
| - | Edward Weston |
| - | Joseph Cornell |
| - | Karel Appel |
| - | Bridget Riley |
| - | Alexander Archipenko |
| - | Anthony Caro |
| - | Richard Hamilton |
| - | Clyfford Still |
| - | Luc Tuymans |
| - | Claes Oldenburg |
TO SEE THE FULL 200 CLICK HERE
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Ruth Murray
(25 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London)
Royal College of Art
The central theme of my work is adolescence. I feel empathy with my subject, but as I drift in flux between mourning innocence and aspiring for womanhood, my perspective is becoming more removed. I sometimes notice fleeting moments of seemingly unearthly qualities in my subjects, this is a curious magical power. I enjoy infusing the familiar with eeriness, sometimes using domestic spaces or nostalgic triggers associated with a ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
Adolescence is an intense force that I find both fascinating and entertaining. It's transient nature means it is full of contradictions. I am particularly intrigued by the juxtaposition of confidence and vulnerability and how this uneasy mix plays out in my paintings. By using confrontational unspoiled women, I hope to seduce the viewer with simple youth and insidious beauty, but also leave a residue of bewilderment by hinting at darker, more alien passions that dwell in adolescence.
Recently my works have been exploring the notion that adolescents are undefined by life’s pressures; they still possess unlimited optimism for who they could be in the world. In my paintings I have been exploring the ‘marshmallow’ factor of adolescence they are still malleable, impressionable. The work I propose to make if chosen would relate to the unlimited potential of the subjects of my paintings, who although absorbed in their self- centred secret worlds of desire, will be ruling the world in 25 years. By then they will have been moulded, no longer transient half beings; they will be sculpted and defined by life’s pressures.
I envisage my painting of a girl constrained by a large coil around her neck; a cycloptic marshmallow, as she tries with futility to eat her way to freedom. The marshmallow although soft and harmless is suffocating and sickly sweet. The pressures of life are caving in.
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My Artworks (6)
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