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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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Better_world_inc. Jm Babonneau
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Better_World_Inc. is the title of a short story written by Jean-Marie Babonneau in Iceland in 2000. It is an irony piece about the delirious and humorous finding of a secret recipe for mass-producing top models by a genetic research company.
THE MAN
Copenhagen & Paris-based photographer, video director, vj, art-teacher, stop-frame animator, performer, born in France in 1971, Jean-Marie Babonneau works under the pseudonyme Better_World_Inc. when dedicating his visions & crafts to art projects & visual performances.
MULTI-CULTURAL INSPIRATION
Since his childhood, Jean-Marie has enjoyed finding inspiration and new perspectives in other cultures (in Germany 1975-1980, Iceland 1999-2002, Denmark 2003-today).
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About the Artist
ARTS & CRAFTS
> PHOTOGRAPHY
art, portraits, press, fashion, advertising, architecture & corporate, staged photography.
> ARTISTIC DIRECTION + CONCEPT/STORY DEVELOPMENT
film manuscript, music album artwork, music videos, video installations, scenography, interactive design, sketching.
> GRAPHIC + WEB DESIGN
music album covers & inlays, visit-cards, post-cards, film & concert posters, dvd covers & inlays.
> ART
photography, exhibitions, installations, projections, light-sculptures/structures.
> VIDEO + FILM
short-movies, stop-frame animations, live vj performances, video-installations for art & corporate purposes.
> PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHING + ARTISTIC GUIDANCE
photography workshops with adult-student groups, private consultancy & courses.
EDUCATION
- the Academy of Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts) in Nantes, France (BA, 1995),
- the French National School of Photography in Arles (MA, 1999),
- apprentice of Lucien Clergue (photographer of Picasso & Cocteau, co-founder of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, in 1969).
TOP-CITIES
Copenhagen, Paris, Reykjavík, Berlin, Nantes, Arles, Barcelona, Firenze, Venezia, London, New-York City, and hopefully more to come!
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The Healer /// Le Guérisseur #01
2005-2007 |
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The Healer /// Le Guérisseur #02
2005-2007 |
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The Healer /// Le Guérisseur #03
2005-2007 |
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| Photographic series The Healer /// Le Guérisseur, as book prototype, extract. |  |
The Healer /// Le Guérisseur #04
2005-2007 |
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The Healer /// Le Guérisseur #05
2005-2007 |
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The Healer /// Le Guérisseur #06
2005-2007 |
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The Healer /// Le Guérisseur #07
2005-2007 |
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2005-2007 |
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| Photographic series The Healer /// Le Guérisseur, as book prototype, extract. |
Education and biography
2009: currently looking for:
- a photo/creative agent & producer,
- an art-gallery with representative role.
2008: artistic director + photographic assignements + public live vj performances with original photographic stop-frame material.
2007: photographic assignments + projection of photographic series The Healer /// Le Guérisseur, and visual performance at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, in Arles, France.
2006: photographic assignements + live visual performances with photographic animations along with DJs and electronic musicians, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2005-2007: photographic workshops as art & photography teacher in Denmark.
2005-2007: photographic series The Healer /// Le Guérisseur.
2004: portrait of David Lynch.
2003: layout of photographic series Meet Me In Copenhagen.
2003: moving to Denmark.
2002: installation with video-projection of photographic series Your Brand New Ancestral Eyes.
2002: book layout of photographic series Your Brand New Ancestral Eyes.
2001: street-projection of short-film The Cometnight (animation) at the cultural night of Reykjavik, Iceland.
1999: moving to Iceland.
1999: Diploma (MA) from the ENSP, école nationale supérieure de la photographie, french national school of photography, in Arles, France (1996-1999).
1998: selected & projected photographic series "Wall Of Emotion" at Voies Off, off-festival of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, in Arles, France.
1997-1998: Printer for Lucien Clergue, nude photographer, portraitist of Picasso & Cocteau and co-founder in 1969 of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, in Arles, France.
1995: Diploma (BA) from the ERBA, école régionale des beaux-arts, academy of fine arts, in Nantes, France (1991-1996).
1990: A-level in mathematics, physics & biology.
1975-1980: a german childhood, in Ulm, Germany. Future shows
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