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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 |
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| Kaloust Guedel |
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Third generation American artist born in Nicosia, Cyprus to Armenian parentage. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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| About the Artist |
My work is a body of records of feelings, thoughts and ideas often detached of awareness. The creativity manifests itself in a continual process of events that conclude in a final destination and not just in an outcome. As an unknown adventure it takes place within the personal wholeness based on the development of one’s intimate thoughts feelings and possibilities. Thus artist's imagination is bound to simplicity and as a rule is in conflict with common sense. An environment free of common sense invokes the abstract qualities of the thought, thereby stimulating a uniquely energized dialogue. Each work is a reflection of the self in fragmented way like pieces of a puzzle.
My aim is not to reproduce the nature as it may be perceived, but to speak of beauty and truth. The beauty is not what is comprised of visually attractive elements, but it is that whose elements are in harmony with each other and within its environment. And the truth is not what is perceived to be the one by socially accepted norms, but it is that whose order is absolute.
Verbal summarization of an artist's work may introduce a relevant picture, but should not be viewed as the ultimate basis upon which one can rely. It cannot convey the inner factors involved in the creative process in its entirety, which may be known through a particular experience only. Marcel Duchamp has eloquently pointed out ”…art history has consistently decided upon the virtues of a work of art through considerations completely divorced from the rationalized explanations of the artist“.
I create the way I feel.
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Rebellion
2006 122cm x 137cm |
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Masks II
2006 Mixed 122cm x 142cm |
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Untitled
2005-2006 Mixed 173cm x 81cm |
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TheBlindManWalket AwayWhileOth
2006 Mixed 173cm x 97cm |
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All Men are Created Alike
2003 Mixed 127cm x 163cm |
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This painting is published in a hard cover book titled MASTERS OF TODAY by MOT Limited, London. ISBN 10: 91-89685-18-0 & ISBN 13: 978-91-89685-18-5. Essay by Andrea Pagnes, art critic, editor, World Art Global Art Magazine. |
Before Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur
2007 Mixed 150 x 270 |
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The panel on the left contains historic images from the Armenian genocide, the image in the middle is a reference to the Cambodian genocide from seventies and the last image is a composition from the Jewish holocaust. It examines and reflects to the issue of genocide, which may have been so-called “justified” based upon historical, social, religious and economic considerations. |
Money Talk 4
2007 mixed |
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Money Talk -18
2008 Mixed Media 153x122 |
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This painting is published in a hard cover book titled MASTERS OF TODAY by MOT Limited, London. ISBN 10: 91-89685-18-0 & ISBN 13: 978-91-89685-18-5. Essay by Andrea Pagnes, art critic, editor, World Art Global Art Magazine. |
Money Talk -21
2008 Mixed Media 153x122 |
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MT-24 (Money Talk)
2008 Mixed Media 153x122 |
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MT-15 (Money Talk)
2008 Mixed Media 153x122 |
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Detached
2009 ink and acrylic on paper 40.5 x 86 |
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Carnalism 3
2009 mixed 76 x 152 |
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Carnalism 2
2009 mixed 152 x 76 |
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Kisses From The Dark Side of The Mars
2004-2009 Mixed 91.5 x 76 |
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Carnalism 11
2009 mixed 153 x 153 |
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Carnalism 10
2009 mixed |
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The painting is comprised of two sections connected with two springs. Attached ropes are puling the sections away from each other creating a gap in the middle. The ropes are attached to strategically positioned nails on the wall a way that the painting is being suspended on the wall. |
Carnalism 5
2009 mixed 240 x 120 |
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Carnalism 16
2009 mixed 180 x 92 |
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The painting is attached strategically positioned rings/hook on the wall a way that the painting is in suspension. Thus extending the two dimensional image into three dimensional space, creating an illusion that the figure in the painting itself is suspended from the ropes. While figurative in form and open to interpretation, works from Project: Carnalism serve as testimonies on behalf of both victims and perpetrators. |
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| Education and biography |
Exhibitions:
Exhibitions:
2009 - Gallery 1018 ---------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2009 - H. Kazan Fine Arts -------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2009 - The Annex LA ---------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2009 - Barnsdale Art Center ---------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2009 - Phantom Galleries --- Fly with the Cage ---- Los Angeles, CA
2009 - Brand Library Art Galleries --- Man's Inhumanity to Men: Journey Out of Darkness... ------- Glendale, CA
2008 - H. Kazan Fine Arts ----------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2008 - H. Kazan Fine Arts - Collective Addiction ------ Los Angeles, CA
2008 - Busan Cutural Art Center (BIAF) --------------------- Seoul, S. Korea
2008 - Beijing GuanYinTang Art Street (GIAF) --------------- Beijing, China
2008 - Seojong Center (GIAF) ------------------------------- Seoul, S. Korea
2008 - H. Kazan Fine Arts ---------------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2008 - Harvest Galleries ---------------------------------- Glendale, CA
2007 - Barnsdale Art Center ------------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2007 - Asto Museum of Art ------------------------------ Long Beach, CA
2006 - Brand Library Art Galleries ---------------------- Glendale, CA
2005 - Museum of Modern Art ------------------------------ Yerevan, Armenia
2005 - Barnsdale Art Center ----------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2005 - Kerckhoff Gallery (UCLA) -------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2004 - ArtiCultural Gallery ------------------------------ Los Angeles, CA
2004 - Gallery Veronese ---------------------------------- Fullerton, CA
2004 - Pacific Design Center ------------------------------ Los Angeles, CA
2004 - Kerckhoff Gallery (UCLA) -------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2003 - Forest Lawn Museum--------------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2003 - Enisen Gallery ------------------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
2003 - Texas National/Stephen F. Austin State University --- Nacogdoches, TX
2002 - The Free Biennial --------------------------------- New York, N.Y.
2002 - Exit Art (REACTIONS) ------------------------------ New York, N.Y.
2002 - Art Center Gallery, Cent. Miss. State Univ. --------- Warrensburg, Mo
2001 - American Swedish Museum ---------------------------- Chicago, Il
2001 - Caelum Gallery------------------------------------- New York, N.Y.
2001 - St. John's University ----------------------------- Jamaica, N.Y.
2000 - Viva Gallery -------------------------------------- Northridge, CA.
1999 - Roslin Art Gallery --------------------------------- Glendale, CA
1998 - Roslin Art Gallery --------------------------------- Glendale, CA
1991 - Audrey Ann Fine Arts ----------------------------- Santa Monica, CA
1991 - Walker And Walker Gallery ------------------------- Santa Monica, CA
1989 - Rico Gallery --------------------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
1988 - Downy Museum of Art ------------------------------- Downy, CA
1986 - Butler Institute of American Art (exhibited together with Willem De Kooning, Jules Olitski, Agnes Martin, Jim Dine and others) ------------
Youngstown, Oh
1985 - Los Angeles County Museum of Art ------------------ Los Angeles, CA
1985 - Lace Gallery --------------------------------------- Los Angeles, CA
1985 - Bank Street Gallery ------------------------------- Palo Alto, CA
1985 - Allied Arts Gallery -------------------------------- Las Vegas, Ne.
1985 - Parsons School of Design --------------------------- New York, N.Y.
1984 - The Art Collector Gallery -------------------------- San Diego, CA
Media:
New American Paintings, 15th Anniversary edition By Open Studios Press (upcoming) ------------------------ 2009
LA Daily News ------------------------------------------------ April 23, 2009
Man's Inhumanity to Men: Journey Out of Darkness... by City of Glendale, CA (Exhibition Catalogue)---- 2009
Afisha ------------------------------------------------------- Nov. -Dec. 2008
Masters of Today------------------------------------------------ 2008
Trends-----------------------------------------------------------2008
The Armenian Reporter------------------------------------------- March 1, 2008
Panorama ------------------------------------------------------ May 28, 2004
Voice of America (Radio Interview)--------------------------- July 7, 2003
News-Press --------------------------------------------------- April 29, 2003
Los Angeles Independent --------------------------------------- April 23, 2003
The Artists blue Book by Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson ------------- 2003
Arts & Entertainment ------------------------------------------ April 23,2003
The Artists blue Book by Ask Art-------------------------------- 2001
New American Paintings By Open Studios Press ---------- December 2000
Gallery Guide------------------------------------------------- March 1991
Artspace----------------------------------------------------- Summer 1991
Artscene----------------------------------------------------- December 1990
Professional experiences:
Curatorial work at Forest Lawn Museums From Ararat to America, Armenian Contemporary Artists --2003
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