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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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Museums around the world:
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| Museo Nacional Del Prado
Originally conceived as a Natural History Musem – a role it never came to fulfil – and built on the orders of Charles III, the building which now houses the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed by the architect Juan de Villanueva en 1785. Its purpose would remain unclear until Ferdinand VII, encouraged by his second wife Barbara of Braganza, decided to establish a Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture. The Royal Museum, which would soon change its name to the Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura (National Museum of Painting and Sculpture), and subsequently to the Museo Nacional del Prado, first opened to the public in 1819 with 311 paintings from the Spanish Royal Collection. The Royal Collections, the origins of the Prado’s present collection, originated in the sixteenth century under the Emperor Charles V were enriched over the years by all the succeeding Spanish monarchs, both Habsburgs and Bourbons.
The Museum’s collection expanded during the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with the addition of holdings from other museums (such as the Mu...
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Address:
Paseo del Prado s/n. 28014
Phone: 00 34 91 330 28 00
Fax: 00 34 91 330 28 56
Website:
www.museoprado.es
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Permanent Collection Highlights (30)
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The Museo Nacional del Prado is without doubt the only institution able to present through its collection the entire history of Spanish painting, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Outstanding masterpieces by artists such as Bermejo, Berruguete, Sánchez Coello, El Greco, Ribalta, Ribera, Zurbarán, Murillo, Velázquez, Goya, Vicente López, the Madrazo family, Rosales and Sorolla form an unparalleled ensemble of international renown. In fact, the study of almost any Spanish painter and his work is almost impossible without visiting the numerous galleries of the Museo Nacional del Prado.
The Italian School is another high point of the Museum’s collection, with fifteenth century masterpieces such as The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, The Death of the Virgin by Mantegna, and the Dead Christ supported by Angels by Antonello de Messina. Due to the taste of sixteenth century monarchs, the collection shows a bias towards Venetian art and the work of Titian in particular. This artist is represented in the Prado by 36 paintings, the largest collection anywhere of his works, ...[ Read all ]
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TINTORETTO (Until 13th May 200)
The exhibition Tintoretto includes around 70 works by the artist loaned from the collections of leading European and American museums and institutions. The exhibition is the first monographic one to be devoted to the artist in Spain as well as the first exhibition on Tintoretto of this size and importance since the one held in Venice seventy years ago. The Prado’s intention is to offer a rigorous and comprehensive survey of the artist’s long career and is itself the fruit of a lengthy and exhaustive research project which will be reflected in the accompanying catalogue.
THOMAS STRUTH. MAKING TIME (Until March 25th)
The Prado Museum is presenting a special installation of works by the renowned German photographer Thomas Struth (born Geldern, 1954). Over the past two decades Struth has devoted his attention to the production of one of his largest series which relates to the public’s daily relationship with works of art in museums around the world. Struth recently completed this project with images taken in the Prado, some of which will b...[ Read all ]
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PATINIR
3 July - 7 October 2007
With the exception of a few of his works that cannot travel due to their state of conservation, the exhibition will include the majority of Patinir’s paintings that are attributed to the artist and his atelier. These works will show the evolution of his style form his initial small paintings, probably painted during the first decade of the XVIth century, up to his masterpieces painted before he died in Antwerp in 1524. The exhibition will also include works by other artists that help understand the evolution of landscape painting during the decades before Patinir.
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The Permanent Collection
General ticket price - 6 Euros
Reduced entry price - 3 Euros
(with proof of status)
EU citizens with Large Family accreditation
Students from non-EU countries aged under 25
Young People's card holders
Members of cultural parties of 15 or more members with prior permission from the Director
Free entry
Visitors aged under 18
Visitors aged over 65 or retired or permanently disabled from EU countries
Unemployed visitors from EU countries
Students from EU countries aged under 25
Staff of Spanish State Museums run by the Ministry of Culture
National and local tourist guides
Teachers whose subjects are directly related to the contents of the Museum and who are engaged in teaching during the visit
Members of:
FAMP (Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado)
APEME (Asociación Profesional de Museólogos de España)
ANABAD (Asociación Nacional de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios y Museólogos)
AEM (Asociación Española de Museólogos)
ICOM (International Council of Museums)
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From 9am to 8pm:
Tuesdays to Sundays and public holidays*
(closed on public holidays that fall on Mondays)
*From 9am to 2pm:
24 December
31 December
6 January
Closed
Every Monday of the year (including Mondays that are public holidays)
1 January
1 May
25 December
Easter Friday
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing time. Galleries emptied 10 minutes before closing time).
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Metro: Banco de España and Atocha stations
Buses: Lines 9, 10, 14, 19, 27, 34, 37 and 45
By rail: Atocha Station
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VISITS TO THE PRADO MUSEUM EXTENSION
Prior to the official opening on 30th October 2007 the new Prado extension will open at weekends until 1 July.
Rafael Moneo’s project, which has increased the size of the Museum by more than 50%, can be seen free of charge every Saturday and Sunday from 28 April to 1 July, as well as on 30 April and 2 and 15 May.
This initiative has been organised by the Museum with the sponsorship of the two companies that carried out the construction work: Dragados and Constructora San José. The aim of these Open Days is to show the public the architecture of the new rooms before they go into use.
In addition, and with the aim of involving the visiting public - the intended user and beneficiary of this historic architectural project - visitors to the new spaces will be able to see a special installation of images by the German photographer Thomas Struth, displayed in the new temporary exhibition galleries. Struth’s photographs comprise his last series in which he focused on the relationship between the public and works of art. The images were ta...[ Read all ]
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MEMBERSHIP SCHEMES
Annual Card, Museo del Prado
(Allows entry to the Prado for the period of one year)
General price - 36 Euros
Reduced price - 18 Euros
EU citizens with Large Family accreditation
Students from non-EU countries aged under 25
Young People's card holders
Annual Card, State Museums
(Allows entry to all Spanish State Museums for the period of one year)
General price: 36.06 €
Both cards can be purchased at the Museum's ticket offices
Paseo del Arte: 14.40 € Euros
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