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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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| Tim Best |
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Date of Birth: October 2nd, 1972
Place of Birth: Spokane, Washington, USA
Tim Best spent the early years of his childhood moving across the western United States with his family. They settled in Peoria, Illinois in 1979. Tim’s art career began in 1992 when he enrolled in the University of Illinois at Chicago Studio Arts program. He graduated in 1995 and worked for the Icon Group, an art transportation company in Chicago for two years. After living in Santa Fe, NM for six months in 1997 he moved back to Chicago spending the next six years developing a career in Information Technology. During this self imposed exile from art, Tim wrote many pages in his journal and processed many ideas. Almost two years ago Tim made a decision to build a portfolio based upon conflicting sensibilities and perspectives of art and business. Displaying the complex drama between these different sensibilities within his photography and video.
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| About the Artist |
My experience in life especially in business is not unique. Most people commit their lives to their careers with no time left to commit to other things. I address this situation in my work. I too hold more than one job to maintain a living. My concerns are to address the humanity underlying this situation and to share my experiences in an experimental, surreal, and non-narrative way that remains succinct.
My background is painting so I approach photography from an aesthetic perspective. Although there are transparent materials out there, they tend to be very toxic and I needed them to use a light source from behind the painting instead of in front. So I moved to photography to work with transparencies and to print on translucent materials. To me, the aesthetic of the transparency signifies transcendence. In my works case, it supports the transcendence of adversity.
As a painter I made a lot of paintings. The advantage of this was that I was able to see a development of aesthetics in my paintings. The paintings became records of an expenditure of my energy translated onto the support. Over time, I became interested in documentary photography, but with the emotion integrated into the facts of the situation. I have continued to become more experimental with this and now my work is moving towards documentation of performance or a thought about an event rather than the event itself.
Inspirations:
Robert Longo, Ad Reinhardt, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Matthew Barney, Rodney Carswell, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Courtney Egan, Heather Weathers... |
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Perfect Day #2
2006 Duratran Print from Medium Format E-6 50 X 40 |
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Duratran Print displayed in custom made illuminated display case. |
Perfect Day #5
2006 Duratran Print from Medium Format E-6 41 x 41 |
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Duratran Print displayed in custom made illuminated display case. |
Evacuee #1
2006 Digital Photograph 80 X 104 |
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Digital C Print face mounted on Plexi glass. Or to customer specification. |
Capability Maturity
2005 Digital Photograph 80 X 104 |
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Digital C Print face mounted to Plexi glass. Wood brace with cleat. |
untitled (gumball cloud landscape perspective)
2007 Gumballs and Aluminum 180cm x 20cm |
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this sculpture is meant to be horizontally suspended indoors from the ceiling. |
untitled
2007 C print 61 x 76cm |
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Plexi facemount with wood brace and cleat. |
untitled (man in desert)
2007 C Print 92 x 92cm |
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Plexi face mount with wood brace and cleat. |
untitled
2007 C print 61 x 76cm |
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Eyelashes in focus. Plexi face mount with wood brace and cleat. |
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| Education and biography |
Education:
University of Illinois at Chicago Bachelors of Fine Arts 1995
One Person Shows:
2005 “Business Man”, Apt 3 Gallery, 43 Aspinwall Ave, Brookline, MA
2004 “Recent Works”, ACME Gallery, 5700 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA
Group and Juried Shows:
2006 “The Human Body” – New Orleans Digital Darkroom, Juried by David Houston, Chief
Curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, December 2nd to December 31st
2006 “The Virus Show” – The Green Room October 14th to November 14th
2006 “Surge” - The Brooklyn Lyceum, September 16th to November 1st
2006 “Just a Perfect Day, works by Tim Best and Jillienne Buena” – The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, July 1st to July 31st
2006 “Likeness – Alternative Portraiture” – Barrister’s, New Orleans
2006 “Arty Gras” – The Warehouse, Washington DC
2006 “Sustained Winds” – Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2005 “No Place Like Home” – Giola Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 “All that Art” – 8 New Orleans Artists Showing during Jazz Fest, Fair Grinds Café
New Orleans, LA
2005 “Hydriotaphia – New Orleans Artists Design their Funeral Urns”, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005 “New Art For a New Year”, 18 New Orleans Artists at Ashe Cultural Center, New Orleans, LA
2004 “Mermaid Lounge Closing Bash” – An Evening of performance and Video, Mermaid Lounge, New Orleans, LA
1996 “The Blister Show”, The Center for Short Lived Phenomenon, Chicago, IL
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| Future shows |
| 2008, Show is unnamed at this time. Sponsored by Civilian Art Projects in Washington D.C. and Exhibiting at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN in June 2009. |
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Website: www.timcbest.com |
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