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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
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-Marcel Duchamp
-Henri Matisse
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-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
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-Donald Judd
-Bruce Nauman
-Alberto Giacometti
-Salvador Dalí
-Auguste Rodin
-Mark Rothko
-Edward Hopper
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-Richard Serra
-Rene Magritte
-David Hockney
-Philip Guston
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
-Pierre Bonnard
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
-Max Ernst
-Diane Arbus
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-Pierre Auguste Renoir
-Man Ray
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-Marc Chagall
-Gerhard Richter
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-Georg Baselitz
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-Sol LeWitt
-Chuck Close
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-Anthony Caro
-Richard Hamilton
-Clyfford Still
-Luc Tuymans
-Claes Oldenburg

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Matthew Day Jackson, Art

Matthew Day Jackson



Selected Works by Matthew Day Jackson


Matthew Day Jackson

Harriet (Last Portrait)

2006
Woodburned drawing, yarn, aniline dye, mother of pearl, abalone & black panther eyes on wood panel
243.8 x 182.9 cm

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Matthew Day Jackson, Harriet (Last Portrait)

Matthew Day Jackson’s Harriet (Last Portrait) monumentalises the image of a black woman on a large oval panel. Working with the artisan techniques of wood-burning and precious stone inlaying, Jackson’s drawing alludes to both antique religious icons and the tradition of folk-craft. Coloured with aniline dye, a pigment used for staining fabric, and the collaged application of yarn, Jackson’s drawing conveys a stunning vivacity, offering a portrait of heroism that frames American cultural history with futuristic promise.

 


Matthew Day Jackson

Hung, Drawn &
Quartered II (Treeson)

2005
Tree branch, spiked leather, taxidermy eyes, braided rope, scythe handle (leg), Birkenstocks, boot stretcher feet
198.1 x 60.9 x 15.2 cm

Matthew Day Jackson, Hung, Drawn

Using found materials, Matthew Day Jackson’s sculptures appropriate the cultural symbolism of everyday objects to reassemble visions of American identity. Hanging from the ceiling as primitive mobile, Hung, Drawn and Quartered II is an abject effigy of a lynching. Constructed primarily of a tree branch, Jackson draws upon a romantic heritage, converting his felled utopia into an animistic totem: adding boggle eyes, scythe handle legs, leather studded ‘stockings’, and dangling Birkenstock feet. Uniting references to colonial optimism, native mysticism, pioneering technology, socialism, and hippie fashion, Jackson executes a portrait of lost ideals.

 


Matthew Day Jackson

Hung, Drawn &
Quartered II (Treeson)
(Detail)

2005
Tree branch, spiked leather, taxidermy eyes, braided rope, scythe handle (leg), Birkenstocks, boot stretcher feet
198.1 x 60.9 x 15.2 cm


Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
 


Matthew Day Jackson

Alphorn with Quartered Stand (Horn of Lady Liberty)

2005
Woodburned drawing on dead tree trunk, handcarved, alphorn mouthpiece, abalone, epoxy, aniline dye, shellac & tree root
213.4 x 182.9 x 487.7 cm

Staging an uprooted tree trunk as trumpet, Matthew Day Jackson’s Alphorn With Quartered Stand poses as a figurative call for revolution. Harking back to an age of political innocence, Jackson adopts readymade natural form as an allegory of freedom; positioned beside a stump carved with an eagle insignia, the horn’s dead and varnished tendrils stand as monument and relic. Drawing reference to the American Transcendentalists and new world heroic folklore, Jackson’s sculpture resounds with a nostalgic patriotism reflective of contemporary discontents.


Matthew Day Jackson

Alphorn with Quartered Stand (Horn of Lady Liberty) (Detail)

2005
Woodburned drawing on dead tree trunk, handcarved, alphorn mouthpiece, abalone, epoxy, aniline dye, shellac & tree root
213.4 x 182.9 x 487.7 cm

Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
 


Matthew Day Jackson

Alphorn with Quartered Stand (Horn of Lady Liberty) (Stand detail)

2005
Balinesian teak (quartered by the artist)

Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
 


Matthew Day Jackson

Dance of Destruction (featuring "Lady Liberty" as Shiva, Wovako, Eleanor, and Jim Jones)

2005
Posters, stickers, photographs, acrylic, push pins & needlepoint
approx. 762 cm long, dimensions variable

Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
Appropriating the media of grass-roots protest, Matthew Day Jackson’s Dance of Destruction is a conglomeration of prints and photographs fly-posted on the gallery wall. Satirically heralding the greatness of America, Jackson places images out of context, rewriting his own ironic version of history. From the origins of a dynasty evidenced by George Washington’s face on the Sphynx, an antique advert boasting the bio-hazard construction of the White House, to a cavalier image of Ronald Reagan made up of his own conflicting words, Jackson revises a nation’s mythology, consolidating parody of current political issues with ‘how it might have been’.


Matthew Day Jackson

Dance of Destruction (featuring "Lady Liberty" as Shiva, Wovako, Eleanor, and Jim Jones) (Detail)

2005
Posters, stickers, photographs, acrylic, push pins & needlepoint
approx. 762 cm long, dimensions variable

Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
 

Matthew Day Jackson

Dance of Destruction (featuring "Lady Liberty" as Shiva, Wovako, Eleanor, and Jim Jones) (Detail)

2005
Posters, stickers, photographs, acrylic, push pins & needlepoint
approx. 762 cm long, dimensions variable

Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
 

Matthew Day Jackson

Dance of Destruction (featuring "Lady Liberty" as Shiva, Wovako, Eleanor, and Jim Jones) (Detail)

2005
Posters, stickers, photographs, acrylic, push pins & needlepoint
approx. 762 cm long, dimensions variable

Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
 

Matthew Day Jackson

Dance of Destruction (featuring "Lady Liberty" as Shiva, Wovako, Eleanor, and Jim Jones)
(Detail)

2005
Posters, stickers, photographs, acrylic, push pins & needlepoint
approx. 762 cm long, dimensions variable

Matthew Day Jackson, Dance of Destruction
 

Matthew Day Jackson

Hungry Ghosts (from the Civil War Battlefield series)

2006
C-print and bumper
sticker collage mounted
on aluminum with wood support
121.9 x 152.4cm

Matthew Day Jackson, Hungry Ghosts (from the Civil War Battlefield series)

Matthew Day Jackson’s Hungry Ghosts pictures the spirits of the American Civil War foraging for food; their barren field now lush parkland emblazoned with an environmental bumper sticker. Highlighting the discrepancy between the pioneering lore of America and the state of its current affairs, Jackson’s photograph conveys cultural critique, reuniting national allegiance with moral responsibility.

 

Matthew Day Jackson

The Lower 48

2006
48 c-prints
34.3 x 50.8 cm each

 

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

Matthew Day Jackson, The Lower 48

 

Matthew Day Jackson

Apollo Space Suit (after Beuys)

2008
Wool felt, aluminum, stainless steel, plastic, thread, felt
182.9 x 66 x 61 cm

Matthew Day Jackson, Apollo Space Suit (after Beuys)
 


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