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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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| Florin I Firimita |
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Born: Bucharest, Romania. Resides in the United States since 1990. Visual artist, teacher,author and filmmaker.
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| About the Artist |
Florin Ion Firimita's mixed-media compositions are exploring universal themes through personal experiences. They are riddles born out of the juxtaposition of the real and the imagined, the private and the universal, the desire and the cancelled desire. He has been using both symbols linked to his family and Romanian roots, and found imagery, to which the artist is not initially related.What the artist pours into his art is a reflection of his interest in philosophy, music, photography, literature, film, nature, and history. He finds amazing sources of inspiration in everything surrounding him: his students� work; his walks around the streets of New York City or Paris; a Mahler symphony; Proust and Borges; a Godard film; a graffiti-covered wall; an old photograph found at a flea market. Firimita is trying to create a sense of mystery in which the viewer is invited to complete his cosmology. Meaning is never a one-way road, and therefore is always a result of a collaboration between what the artist is trying to communicate, and what the viewers are willing to see. |
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The End of Innocence (Graduation Day)
2006 Assemblage on wood 61x45 cm |
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Lilli
2007 Mixed media on panel 76x61 cm |
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Prayer
2006 Mixed media on wood 76x61 cm |
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The Offering
2005 Mixed media on wood 76x61 cm |
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The Commandement
2006 Mixed media on wood 76x61 cm |
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Reliquary no.3
2005 Mixed media on wood 76x61 cm |
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Before Sunset
2004 Mixed media on wood 76x61 cm |
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Losing My Religion
2006 Mixed media on wood 76x61 cm |
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Dreamcage #1
2004 30x24 inches |
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Dreamcage #2 (Believe)
2005 30x24 inches |
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Broken Sundays
2005 30x24 inches |
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Beacon Hill
2004 24x30 inches |
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Eight Ways of Fogetting
2004 30x24 inches |
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Interior with Labyrinth
2005 30x24 inches |
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Jim's Irish Boat
2004 mixed on psnel 30x24 inches |
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Prosthetic Venus #1
2005 30x24 inches |
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Romaire's Dream
2005 24x30 inches |
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The Missing
2004 24x30 inches |
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The Peacemaker
2005 20x20 inches |
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The Sea Inside Us
2005 30x24 inches |
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The Truth About Us
2006 30x24 inches |
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The Witness
2004 30x24 inches |
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The Last Breakfast of the Romanoff Children
2004 20x20 |
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Winter Garden
2004 2004 |
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The End of Innocence
2004 30x24 inches |
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| Education and biography |
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
FLORIN ION FIRIMITA was born in Romania, where he started painting at the age of five under the influence of his father, an amateur photographer, and his mother, a fashion designer and a decorative arts teacher. He worked for many years as an assistant and apprentice to renowned artist Constantin Ciocarlie, then studied studio, mural painting and art history. Between 1986 and 1990, he worked as the Set and Costume Painter and also as the Production Manager for the Art Department at the National Theater of Opera and Ballet in Bucharest.
In 1990, he immigrated to the United States.
In the United States, Mr.Firimita graduated in May 1997 from Central Connecticut State University, with a degree in Art Education, and in 2005 with a Masters from the same university. He teaches, paints, exhibits, lectures and writes art-criticism, essays and stories about his experiences. He has been an artist-in-residence for both public and private schools in Connecticut, US, and worked as an art advisor for the Connecticut State Department of Education, during the 2000-2001 International Art Exchange Program, in The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He has been recently appointed co-director of the Summer Visual Arts Program at Central CT State University.
In the past years, his artwork has become widely collected and requested in numerous exhibits in the US, Europe and Australia.
In 1992, Mr. Firimita received an Honorable Mention at the National Arts Program, and in 1994 he was the recipient of the National Prize for Literature awarded by the New York University. In the United States, his writing has appeared, among others, in Works + Conversations, Tertulia Magazine, Many Mountains Moving, The Literary Review, The Sun, House Beautiful, and The Hartford Courant. In Europe, his fiction was published in England and France. He is currently working on his first novel, and was recently included in an anthology entitled "New American Writers."
Mr.Firimita has received his American citizenship in 1995. His artistic evolution has been documented in the 2004 film "The Art of Leaving," directed by Brian Kamerzel. The film has been an official selection of the 2003 Santa Fe International Film Festival, the 2004 Durango Film Festival, the Artivist Film Festival, the IFP Film Market in New York City. Most recently, the film was screened at Steven Spielberg's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and at the 23rd International Film Festival of Films on Art in Montreal (2005).
SELECTED EXHIBITS
2007 - Art Gotham Gallery, New York City, USA
- WAA Gallery, Wshington Depot, CT, USA
- Marie Louise Trichet Gallery, Litchfield, CT, USA
2006 - Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA
- The Pilot Pen Tennis Center at Yale, New Haven, CT, USA
- White Space Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
2005 - White Space Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
2003 - ACT 2 Gallery, New Hartford, CT, USA
- COSI, West Hartford, CT, USA
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA
2002 - George Eastman International Museum of Photography,Rochester, NY, USA
2001 - Samuel S.T. Chen Gallery, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA
2000 - Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT, USA
University of Connecticut, USA
The Bushnell, Hartford, CT, USA
1998 - Good News Caf�, Woodbury, CT, USA
Naugatuck Valley College, Waterbury, CT, USA
P.S. Gallery, Litchfield, CT, USA
1996 - Emporium Gallery, Mystic, CT, USA
1995 - Miss Porter�s School/ Gilbert Gallery,Farmington,CT, USA
1994 - Small Space Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
1993 - Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT, USA
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