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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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Collaborative art |
Don't you think collaborative art such as the one below is amazing?
http://a-gru.co.uk/WordTree.swf |
By jamrobot
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Why indeed are we so afraid of what is natural and the truth?
it is simple. human beings came in between this ultimately puzzling existence without any idea how or why. and they cannot live without an answer that consoles their lost souls. so some idiots started imagining most weird stories and explanations for it and found out that these words had the power to subjugate the material existence of human society. and the most fundamental basis to do it was to condemn your natural instincts and energy and make you split.
How have we become so distanced from the pure love of this natural beauty, so that we have learned to be afraid to express what is inherent in us?
How has this happened and what will be the consequence of it all.
the root of this lies in the priests who saw that by casting some supernatural dis-functionality upon his society, he can fulfill his monkeylike desire of having all the females and bananaz under his subjugation. but the problem to this was, there were other beasts along with him who were clever enough to see his weak trick but foolish enough to compromise with him to gain the real seat of power. so the crooked politicians came in and of course along tagged in the warriors. cause, these strong and lazy men were the real force who wanted to either satisfy a female sexually or gain physical control over the clan.
but in human society, raw physical power is not the only thing that keeps them alive. intelligence is equally important in order to know the sciences and arts of survival. so the real intelligent people who discovered the way to till a field or build the tools were becoming increasingly attractive. people like einstein and mr.agroscience and mr.architecture and van gogh were increasingly becoming attractive to all the femme fatals. and mrs fertilizer and mrs embroidery and mrs cookfood and do the dishes were also becoming important to all the machomaniacs.
so the strong men who were only good when it came to lift a heavy stone were also becoming friendly to these clever kids.
but the hyena like priests and politicians became very very jealous. they even slowly wooed in the management side to take part in their conspiracy to exploit this situation. so they created myths that condemned natural attraction, progressive sciences and arts and worshiped the idols. remember the word 'idle' and 'idol' sounds similar. it is not a coincidence. these idle bastards, priests - finally managed to create a hierarchy in the society. and hence the real intelligent creators became slaves to them, the dull and naive became the labors, the strong became their guards and the cunning politicians and greedy mercantiles became the infrastructure.
then came in the degenerated socio-organisations, moralists, anarchists, abstracts, psychologist, pornography, perversion, fascism, communism, socialism, dada and surrealism and now conceptual realism, vying for power and leadership in their own respective ways.
i have excluded a lot of it in between, like the coomaraswamy and theosophists and the hippies...but hey! who cares thiz hip hop daze eh?
sally's kids who are grown up now really admire their mother's work and feel sacred to be a part of her exposition. she lives with a contented and natural family in a beautiful place, albiet not oblivious to the world and without the prying hypocritical soulinerted eyes of the plastic crits that hovers around the zeitgeist as if they are important and looking good...while that is just one of the fucked up and hilarious fact of the day...
important...pooffff...looking sexy and gorgeous....pooofffff....fuckin insane and not even knowing how invalid!
just a crap-creative writing. imagined under the premises of the illuded. nothing concrete underneath it.
if you look deep down inside earth's crust you will find the core...which itself is almost liquid. nothing solid you see. we do seem to live above water and under water...if you want to presume the outer space as such...someone recently said god created the world and separated the waters...so...yeah...
but really. all this crap. nobody knows and everybody is claiming shit. we are all mad...and indeed it is okay to be a bit mad. this is utterly amazing situation to be in. knowing neither the beginnin nor the end. just in between. robbing, looting, exploiting, contradicting, killing, loving, sharing, scaring, getting freaked out, making amends, toiling hard, creating, travelling, craving, getting offended, hating, eating too much, or too less, driving a car, falling into a ditch and dissatisfaction, some joining the leftists, some joining the rightwing paramilitary, some living upon luck while others purely biting the dust and wat not else. and we know we are here only in a temporary basis. and there is no possie-fuckable way we can say for sure wat's next and beyond and wat was before the existence and etceeze...
and there are now billions of brains with billions of ideas.
only recently a young facebook friend of mine was saying: fishes fly at night...
to which i replied: stars swim in da day!
amen.
nb: no sexist views intended. the division is purely aimed at pointing out the various mainlines of human social intelligence that has played its role in the creation of the world structure today and the psychology behind it. |
By harrypotter
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everything is natural, and truth, difficult.
esulW |
By esulW
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Just came across this story today,
The child stepped up closer to the mirror, to the point of touching it. His breath fogged over the reflective surface and his reflection disappeared.
His mother smiled and led him farther along, until they reached a large canvas painted uniformly gray.
"Look, here is your foggy mirror: without reflection and without illusion", said she in a mocking tone. "You've disappeared indeed, and the world's gone away with you. All that remains is a surface of paint standing up like a wall before our gaze and imagination."
She turned to him. He stared at the canvas, frowning. He seemed to be looking for something. He finally muttered: "What a sad picture without reflection and illusion, it's like a night without stars and without dreams..."
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"...This painting tells of the loss of images, the absence of colour. It is a deserted world without ideals, therefore hopeless".
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Maybe this is the image we should recall when we look at the other pictures, to remember where painting comes from and where it can always return...
Guy Tosatto |
By (K)ate
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"He finally muttered: "What a sad picture without reflection and illusion, it's like a night without stars and without dreams..."
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"...This painting tells of the loss of images, the absence of colour. It is a deserted world without ideals, therefore hopeless".
......hard to believe these are supposed to be the words of a child. I bet it must be the feckin'wiseass nerd of elementary school. Always puzzling his fellas with tales of some large hadron collider like a big pressure cooker somewhere in Switzerland that's creating black holes in cheez out of nothing.
Also they may use to maintain that there's a universe with galaxies that all revolve around some great black hole, ever unseen.
And during math class they may wonder about the consequences of linking the dollar to the euro when Greece gets kicked out of the Europoopean union.
Ye know, those anti-Billy Turfs, who may optionally propel themselves by a wheelchair in which they sit with their wrinkled progeriatric faces, asfyixated and rasping with dyspneaic breathing, hard of hearing, seeing nor believing anything of the real world, until something got printed in some substantial book volume, always daydreaming with their spectacles on and responding to the names Basil, Dude, Ariputtra or even Cleps.
We may guess probably his home got wrapped with toilet paper more than once by hideously envious comrades looking for some cheap amusement. |
By owhereman
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I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us and which is incomplete and limited. (...) I cannot describe anything more clearly about reality than my own relation to reality. And this has always something to do with haziness, insecurity, inconsistency, fragmentary performance...
Ibidiem |
By (K)ate
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Yes I must admit some very nice writing here. I liked reading H, and K8s post was very interesting to me, and enlightened. O always practical twixt reality, and illusion.
I think K8 is right when she wrote about her own sense of proportion, and reality which may, or may not inter-react with what is actually going on, a hard one to decipher.
Like so many things in life,it seems so complex.
As you may, or may not know the astro-phyiscists now have concluded amoung themselves that the Universe is actually expanding,but this half-witted cab-driver has a theory also,could it not be that the Universe is simply rotating around itself, and not actually expanding at all, thoughts please. |
By santana
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Contracting. |
By (K)ate
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Contracting.
Maybe not |
By (K)ate
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Contracting.
Maybe not |
By (K)ate
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Thankyou K8 for that deliverence, they say that all the best answers come in 3s. !!! |
By santana
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i think the problem has been created since the inception of the dimensions by which we give shapes to reality.
i think the problem is that we are using dimensions that are simply not existent. eg: space and time. where is it? i don't see it anywhere except in our concept that attempts to form some sort of geometrical shape of existence.
while it is pretty evident that existence is more qualitative in these aspects. it is in our senses and without, if we are to include our ability to instinctly perceive an oblivious situation. there might just be no shape at all. no distance. nor time. but simply a 'rotating' like process. a movement that has no connection nor realisation of space, form or shape. or of any other dimensions...yet is constituted of infinite forms, shapes and speed of all the constituent life assemblies within the system. |
By harrypotter
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The problem in yer reasoning seems to be the omittance c.q faling in considering the factors mass, energy, gravity, relativity and the speed of light, of which its constance lies in no less than the subatomic structure of things themself, while also not to forget the phenomenon of electromagnetism, and ultimately the blueprint of that what's called life and observient awareness.
This defect in mentality lends to yer train of thought a quite ephemeral quality for its painful lack of many missing links to be of any consequent comprehensive continuity nor consistency, and all of this merely by faling to be sufficiently grounded. |
By owhereman
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Velocity speed of an object in a given direction. Velocity is a vector quantity, since its direction is important as well as its magnitude. The velocity at any instant of a particle travelling in a curved path is in the direction of the tangent to the path at the instant considered. The velocity of an object travelling in a fixed direction may be calculated by dividing the distance it has travelled by the time taken to do so, and may be expressed as:
v=s/t |
By (K)ate
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Therefore velocity can be considered as a distortive quotientation of both space and time. So, what is perceived by observance somehow is reminding of a constancy.
This constance seems to invite the postulate or axioma that nothing could exceed the speed of light, when by doing so, its mass would become infinite, i.e. even surpassing the whole mass of the entire universe in terms of matter and dark matter.
However, considering the phenomenon of black hole, that seems to be taunting of this: we know these having such a great mass, that even light is not fast enough to escape a black hole.
So we may reason that in the center of the black hole it's huge mass having been condensed in one utmost smallness, which then seems thus be capable of distorting space in such manner, that its mass tolls faster than the speed of light, and thus recycling mass into pure energy that easily could be recognized as a big bang itself.
However, really mindbogglingly incomprehensible is the hypothesis that this distortion of space on such scale could evoke new dimensions to make it possible to embody the new energy created. We can only guess what form these will be as even wormholes could have originate amongst countless characteristic anomalies thus created.
However, it could be hypothesized that from the perspective of this side of the black hole what may to be perceid may seem to the observer as strange things infinitely elongated, distorted and just as most bizarre as the reality on this side is.
But if one thing could be assured, is that if there's anything recognizable to be found there, it will be awareness that also resides there. |
By owhereman
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1+1=2 |
By (K)ate
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ah this so reminds me of the time bandits.
but rememember pope owt-ear, even if i say that the sun revolves around the earth it won't change the fact that there is no reality in these superinflated calculations that is starting to reconstruct existence in a shape of a bottle of coke with sprite holes like the jains. all it reveals is the epiphenomenon of a deviantmind mutating fairytales and marvel comics they read too much while in their primal state of being, and collaborating it with algorithms and arithmetics and so on. |
By harrypotter
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Thankyou all for your thoughts on this mind-boggling idea of Universal rotation,although I have to say that in itself the rotation is still somewhat connected to expansion, I did however forget to say that.
Now then on the subject of the speed of light, scientists say they think they have found something even faster than light, a tachyeon which cannot in itself go slower than light,your thought please.
Also, question, is god the greatest Artist of ALL time. !!!
Is art,& geometry the blueprint for ALL life forms. !!! |
By santana
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Spring has come again. The earth is like a child who knows poems.
The Sonnets to Orpheus |
By (K)ate
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A beautifull thought, and again well expressed.!!! |
By santana
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one can shape it and give it various speeds or dimensions of it as much twisted as there is possible ways, but it won't change the fact that whatever it is taking place is only happening within your perceptions and not really seen outside your window where real flowers are starting to grow.
copper nick us
da banker |
By harrypotter
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op. cit.
it is the thoughts that travel faster than anything. just imagine! |
By harrypotter
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