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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 |
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| - | 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 |
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Selected Works by Kai Althoff
Kai Althoff
Untitled
2001, Boat varnish, watercolour, pen and pencil on
board
50 x 40cm |
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Untitled shows a group
of black-clad men gathered around a table, immediately suggestive of
conspiracy and covert sexual tension. Kai Althoff portrays the intrigue
in the paint itself: yellow confronting black, the tenuous texture of
the fabric and the oblique fly-on-the-ceiling angle which compresses
the subjects into their opposing directions.
His all-male cast of characters gives credence to the corruptibility
and heroism of youth. Pictured with an authoritative voyeurism, Kai
Althoff infers a complicit approval to their coven.
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Kai Althoff
Untitled
1997, pen, pencil and tape on board
186 x 100cm |
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Kai Althoff's soldiers
are drawn with delicate stylised dandyism. Conveyed with refined nobility,
debauchery and humanity become indistinguishable; cruelty is portrayed
with an acute tenderness. Flattened to an almost decorative motif, Althoff’s
scene reads like theatre. Reminiscent of Georg Grosz's depictions of
Berlin’s WW1 underworld, deplorable action is staged for consensual
pleasure, a chic poster glamorising the (un)desirable.
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Kai Althoff
Untitled
2000, Lacquer, paper, watercolour and varnish on
canvas
50 x 50cm |
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Kai Althoff’s
paintings of Prussian soldiers flirt with a homoerotic subtext. His
decorated brotherhood thinly veils their carnal motives under the guise
of authority. He paints his violence with a sensual tenderness, rendered
in the creaminess of folk tale fantasy.
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Kai Althoff
Winter
2002, aluminium foil, boat lacquer, ink, watercolour,
metallic paint and varnish on canvas
60 x 40cm |
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In Winter, Kai Althoff
uses a variety of media to add an unexpected quality to his graphic
composition. Approaching the painting itself as collage, Althoff flaunts
difference of style in each separate element to create tension and possible
narratives within the unified whole.
Dark dream-like scenes adopt a painterly quality of reverence: a
crouching figure is painted over crumpled aluminium foil, creating
both a geological texture and reference to gilded religious icons.
Sheltered like a grotto by a hard-edged militaristic design, punctuated
by photographic images of stylised masculinity, they feed the painting
with spirituality. Layers of ephemeral hues and high-gloss varnish
create a transcendental illusiveness, perpetually flitting between
gravitas and disco chic.
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Kai Althoff
Untitled
1999, watercolour, pen and pencil on board
25.5 x 24cm |
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Kai
Althoff’s portrait is rendered with rudimentary simplicity: shape,
tone and colour create a totality of exquisite presence. Untitled
boasts a contained elegance, deceptive in its complexity. Sexualised
with reference to Egon Schiele, Untitled is an overture of
dandyism. Kai Althoff tenders this painting with the contrived scrutiny
of the most discerning connoisseur. Haughty and self-possessed, Kai
Althoff’s boy is a perfect specimen. Both ruffian and swan song,
he encapsulates the duplicity and danger of idealised beauty.
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