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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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Amy Pierpoint
Nottingham Trent University, Fine Art
And when I was born I came out of the womb clutching a pencil and a sketch pad, I’ve still got them somewhere. And although over the years my passion for drawing waned, my fervour for installation and sculpture flourished and my talent bloomed. Or so I’d hope to think.
And I don’t like to be tied down to subject matter or ways of thinking. So I threw all my string away. And although I don’t like to be tied down, I do find myself swimming through re-occurring themes, loosely based around: absence and presence, basic human emotions and creating an experience for the, sometimes unsuspecting, viewer. And I am concerned with creating mental acrobatics. I want your mind to summersault through a range of prerequisite emotions and actions. I want my work to trigger the laughter switch in your brain before your conscience and morality comes into play, and you quickly reel in that scoff that you oh so quickly spat out.
And my practice has never been capricious; every detail is picked over, (like a crisis has ensued.) Until everything is perfect, perfectly idiosyncratic
And recently I’ve become interested in subverting the notion of art, turning it on its head. And art traditionally is something to be stood in front of and mused over, but I wish to create so...
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My Favourites
| Artists |
gregor schneider. bruce nauman. jim lambie. martin creed. jason rhoades. |
| Movies |
a clockwork orange. breakfast at tiffanys.ferris buellers day off. the breakfast club. |
| Books |
a time to dance by bernard maclaverty. art books with big pictures. |
| Places |
my bedroom. my studio space. london. my grans house. berlin. my mums house in france. paris. stealth. the tate. but i think people make a location, a location doesn't make the people. |
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michelle lockwood. nicholas booth. bianca fry. alexander van den bosch. christopher old. nicole warillow. thomas hobbs. katie firmin. ruth burden. anna jespersen. my gran. family and that. |
| TV Shows |
modern toss. tv go home. Aaargh its the Mr hell show. monkey dust. mighty boosh. bigbrother. wife swap. peep show. laurel and hardy. stopit and tidyup. roobarb and custard. |
| Music |
reverend pike. yeah yeah yeahs. kap bambino. hot chip. klaxons. lost penguin. long blondes. good shoes. shy child. bromheads jacket. CSS. bright eyes. i am kloot. the faint. neon plastix. art brut. evaporators. belle and sebastian. hefner. super furry animals. the thermals. gomez. campag velocet. futureheads. testicicles. terris. everyones got a favourite madonna song, and mines borderline. but my favourite song of all time is lovecats by the cure. closely followed by ghost town by the specials. |
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My Interests
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| art. installation art. dada. music. mice. psychology. fashion. pastry. sequins. crisps and sandwiches. chips and sandwiches. sandwiches. |
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My Sports and Hobbies
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| i like dancing. sport is for roys. |
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