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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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Selected Works by Hernan Bas
Hernan Bas
Posing With Antlers in 100 Year Old (Haunted) Cabin
2004, Mixed Media on Board
79 x 61cm |
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Hernan Bas’s paintings explore
the codes of dandyism and its subculture as a means to define sexual
attraction. Bas’s paintings are small, frail and sensuously delightful;
through their unassuming intimacy, they personify epic romance. Influence
by historical painting, Hernan Bas’s
images contemporaneity, their staginess and immediate familiarity suggest
the melodramatic narratives of classic film. In Posing with Antlers,
Hernan Bas paints a waif-like boy, flirtatiously
hamming it up for snap shot laughs. Placing the viewer in the position
of an unseen photographer, Bas sets a scene of predatory seduction.
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Hernan Bas
Red Herring
2004, Oil on Canvas
79 x 61cm |
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Heavily influenced by The Decadence
period of literature, Hernan Bas’s paintings are inspired by well-worn
pages of Wilde and Huysmans. “Why does homosexuality seem to make
you pre-disposed to liking these things?” Bas questions. “As
a result this work is tainted with Saint Sebastian martyr types, dying
dandies and peacock feathers, all the materials that dictate a certain
queer vocabulary." Hernan Bas’s
style of painting emulates linguistic flourish. Impassioned brushwork
and pastel hues bloom with poetic description; environments are set
with the divine ambience of transience. Confined by fanciful etiquette, Hernan Bas’s figures allude to darker
sentiments. Their posed innocence is but a thin veil of gentlemanly
decorum.
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Hernan Bas
The Hero Centaur
2005, Oil on Canvas
91 x 122cm |
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In The Hero Centaur, Hernan
Bas composes his painting with acute sensitivity. His rich palette flames
with dreamy brushstrokes, forms swell and recede with controlled eroticism.
Mythology bridges the gap between children’s fantasy and adult
sophistication, adventure stories enmeshed in wanton intrigue and violent
plots. Hernan Bas situates his characters
amidst the turbulence of adolescence. Their sexuality has an aura of
naiveté, an awkward expedition into the enchanted and unknown. Hernan Bas’s paintings are never explicit.
Rather his romanticised scenes exist as metaphors for emotional flux.
Wavering between virginal trepidation and gushy infatuation, they capture
precise moments of seasonal youth.
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Hernan Bas
Burning Up For Your Love
2005, Mixed Media on Paper
77 x 58cm |
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Passion and violence are inextricably
linked. In the pursuit of the alchemy of dandyism, Bas embraces both
the decadence and nastiness of pleasure. In Burning Up For Your
Love, Hernan Bas imagines his young lovers’ forest rendezvous
with a look of aggression. Hernan Bas’s
painting descends into a maelstrom of expressive gestures: trees twist
with charred malice, encased by a necromantic mist. Hernan
Bas styles the blanket with carnal suggestion: its sinful red hue, replicated
in the splashes and splatters of leaves, suggest a more brutal form
of forbidden love. The natural physicality of one young man is given
an ethereal glow, presented as an almost god-like form, while the other
man lies darkened and bruised. The aftermath of their indulgent tea
party remains as litter.
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Hernan Bas
Tapestry
2005, dyed wool
434 x 1 x 222 cm |
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Hernan
Bas's tapestry intricately weaves his subject of desire into an object
of luxurious decadence. Drawing reference from the narrative regalia
of medieval wall hangings, his carpet transfers the expressionist
elegance of his paintings into stylised stitch work. Woven in bright
colours, Hernan Bas’s mythological scene presents both a contemporary
and timeless apotheosis. The acid hues and pixellated texture replicate
the virtuality of television or digital imaging, while his antique
process echoes the intimacy of heartfelt endeavour. In creating a
functional object rather than a painterly illusion, Hernan Bas incorporates
a more complex dimension to his opulent fantasies. His tapestry facilitates
lifestyle embellishment and role-play fetishism. |
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