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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 |
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| - | 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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| Karl Bielik |
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Born Bradford, England 1967
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| About the Artist |
From direct, urban, almost punk foundations, Bielik's
recent work has moved towards a more subtle and refined aesthetic. Brash combinations of found materials and industrial paints have given way to
calculated mark making and a more sophisticated use of colour.
These messy, graphic oil paintings retain the energy
of the earlier work but the literal and emotional
darkness, so explicit before, has become implicit,
a subtle undercurrent. |
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Cover
2009 Oil on Canvas 25x20cms |
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Bull Fantasies
2008 Oil on Canvas 40x36cms |
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2009 Oil on Canvas 51x40cms |
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Dub
2009 Oil on Canvas 40x30cms |
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Meat Sling
2008 Oil on Canvas 31x36cms |
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Club
2008 Oil on Canvas 41x46cms |
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Stain Land
2008 Oil on Canvas 36x26cms |
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Burn
2008 Oil on Canvas 45x35cms |
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The Fat End
2008 Oil on Jute 31x26cms |
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Excess
2008 Oil on Canvas 25x20cms |
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| Education and biography |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
THE ART FACTORY, BUDAPEST
EXACT DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
ARTSPACE, PORTSMOUTH
EXACT DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
2008
MARMITE PRIZE FOR PAINTING
STUDIO 1.1, LONDON
ART PROJX PRESENTS DYNAMITE FIGHTER
A NEW WORK BY boyleANDshaw FEATURING
A PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION BY LARK
THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON
PAINTING 2
THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON
NEVER WAS THERE SO MUCH WASTED WINE...
SO MANY DEAD FLOWERS.
PERMANENT OUTDOOR SHOW AT TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON
WITH MATT GOLDEN, LIZ WRIGHT AND HEIDI LOCHER
ART FOR ROSIE
OPEN EYE GALLERY, EDINBURGH
ART AUCTION FOR ST JOSEPH'S HOSPICE
INC PETER DOIG, JAKE&DINOS CHAPMAN AND CHRIS OFILI
CHRISTCHURH SPITALFIELDS, LONDON
2007
OH DEBORAH
WITH LEIGH CLARKE, JASON BROOKS AND ROGER KELLY
CA PROJECTS, LONDON
DEPARTURE LOUNGE
WITH boyleANDshaw, ANNIE DAVEY & JULIAN WAKELIN
TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON
APPETITE FOR DECORATION
TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON.
VISUAL SLANG
WITH JIM AVIGNON, PHIL FROST, DANA WOULFE & MORE
ABRONS ART CENTER, NEW YORK.
STAY
ZIZI GALLERY, LONDON
NOODLES, DOODLES AND SNIPPETS
VITAL ARTS AT THE ROYAL LONDON, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON
2006
PAINTING THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON
BLACK AND WHITE TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON
NEW PAIN VERTIGO GALLERY, LONDON
KEEP'S SAKE TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON
ANOTHER PRODUCT THE CORNERHOUSE, MANCHESTER
TIME FLIES TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON
2005
HAPPINESS BLUES TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON
PAINTING YOURART GALLERY, BERLIN
TEXTURE CLARION GALLERY, LONDON
...IS SOMEWHERE TERRACE GALLERY, LONDON
2004
LEXMARK EUROPEAN ART PRIZE FINALISTS SHOW, LONDON
HYPE-ME HYPE GALLERY, LONDON
LONDON ARTS EAST 291 GALLERY, LONDON
2002
ART 2003 STRICOFF GALLERY, NEW YORK
TANGIBLE ART PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON
2001
2X36X36 MAFUJI GALLERY, LONDON
2000
36X36 MAFUJI GALLERY, LONDON
1999
ART ESSENZ, BAHNHOF GALLERY, BERLIN
NEW PAINTERS O POMAR DES ARTISTAS GALLERY, LISBON
7th ANNUAL MENTAL HEALTH BENEFIT ATHENS, USA
A FINE MESS TARGUS GALLERY, LISBON
1998
SAME OLD STORY JEDNOROZEC GALLERY, PRAGUE
1997
26 DAYS KAMZIK GALLERY, PRAGUE
PUBLICATIONS
2008
NYARTS MAGAZINE
A FEATURE IN THE 2008 DEC/JAN ISSUE
THE MARMITE PAINTING PRIZE CATALOGUE
2007
AMERICAN VOGUE
A PAINTING USED IN A PHOTOSHOOT WITH MARIO TESTINO
2003
BARCELONA 2003 CD, EMI PUBLISHING
2000
INTERN MAGAZINE, PRAGUE
1999
POZOR MAGAZINE, PRAGUE
1998
FIRST BORN CATALOGUE, BRATRI CAPKU GALLERY, PRAGUE
PERFORMANCE
2002 ONWARDS
LARK
PLEASE VISIT MUSIC FOR MORE INFORMATION
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