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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:
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| - | Marcel Duchamp |
| - | Henri Matisse |
| - | Jackson Pollock |
| - | Andy Warhol |
| - | Willem De Kooning |
| - | Piet Mondrian |
| - | Paul Gauguin |
| - | Francis Bacon |
| - | Robert Rauschenberg |
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| - | Frida Kahlo |
| - | Martin Kippenberger |
| - | Paul Klee |
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| - | Donald Judd |
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| - | Alberto Giacometti |
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| - | David Hockney |
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| - | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| - | Pierre Bonnard |
| - | Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| - | Max Ernst |
| - | Diane Arbus |
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| - | Man Ray |
| - | Henry Moore |
| - | Cindy Sherman |
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| - | Tracey Emin |
| - | Damien Hirst |
| - | Yves Klein |
| - | Henri Rousseau |
| - | Chaim Soutine |
| - | Arshile Gorky |
| - | Amedeo Modigliani |
| - | Umberto Boccioni |
| - | Jean Dubuffet |
| - | Eva Hesse |
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| - | Maurizio Cattelan |
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| - | Edward Weston |
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| - | Karel Appel |
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| - | Alexander Archipenko |
| - | Anthony Caro |
| - | Richard Hamilton |
| - | Clyfford Still |
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| - | Claes Oldenburg |
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| Maya Barkai |
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Born in Jerusalem Israel in 1980, I have been based in New York City for the past five years, during which I graduated from the School Of Visual Arts' Photography Department (BFA with honors, 2005).
Before arriving to New York and following my military service in Israel, I worked as a photojournalist for different magazines including the largest news publications in Israel: Zoom77, Yedioth Aharonoth and the Shoken Media Group.
Between the years 2000-2001 I served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a military photographer working as a staff photojournalist for the IDF Official Magazine, “BaMachaneh”. Throughout my service, I practiced high volume photojournalism, documenting the everyday realism of life in Israel and the army.
Today I work as a freelance photographer for various cliental, among which are Zagat Survey, Corduroy Magazine, and ADA Art Consulting. I continue to develop and exhibit my personal body of work, which includes styled portraiture, editorial documentation, and narrative fashion. I strive to further pursue my career as a photographer in the art and commerce age.
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| About the Artist |
In contrast to my photojournalism, my latest body of work describes a blurry moment between being awake and sleeping. They are subjective fantasies of life in the big city, surrounded by lights with no sun, an extreme weather, and constant chaos; the exact opposite of life in Israel, since after all leaving time for hallucinations is something we cannot afford to do in Israel, especially not as photographers.
This photographic series pinpoints moments in life, both significant and incidental. They are illusive and anonymous, reflections and analogies to landscapes and nature. Using an associative vocabulary that is aroused by the abstract, I created an intimate body of work where beds and bodies become landscapes, light projects warmth and temperature. Highlights and shadows challenge the still photographs. The abstracted dreamlike-nature of these images are stylized studies subdued and engaging, with analogies to landscapes and views from my home country, Israel. This work lingers into the genre of memory, creating a special kind of visual story combining still life and portrait photography.
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Bed Landscape No. 1
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Bed Landscape No. 8
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Bed Landscapes No. 6
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Alon in the Sun Diptych
2005 50X50 each |
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Untitled Diptych
2005 50X50 each |
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Body Landscape No. 2
2003 50X50 |
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Danielle And Romi With Maya
2006 50X50 |
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Bed Landscape No. 5
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Website: www.mayabarkai.com |
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