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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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| - | 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 |
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| - | Edward Hopper |
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| - | 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 |
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| - | 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 |
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| - | Juan Gris |
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| - | Balthus |
| - | Joan Miro |
| - | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| - | Frank Stella |
| - | Georg Baselitz |
| - | Francis Picabia |
| - | Jenny Saville |
| - | Dan Flavin |
| - | Alfred Stieglitz |
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| - | 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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| Sharon Spillar |
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Sharon Spillar currently resides in St. Louis, MO. She was born in 1968 in the town of Mount Carmel, Illinois. Her family moved shortly after to her childhood home in Great Bend, Kansas. This is where her art interests began. She spent countless hours watching her mother paint. Her mother was a realist painter. Sharon grew up with the smell of oils and turpentine. She says "it was in my system". She went to Kansas State University in the hopes of becoming something else. Before long, She began wondering why she was pursuing a degree without any conviction. Then her mom came to visit and handed off her art supplies. She began to experiment and then found she could not stop. The next semester she switched all her classes to art history, drawing, and painting. She had finally found her passion. After her father passed away in 1994. She " lost her spirit". She picked up her paint brush again in 2004 and says that she was finally complete again. She keeps her last unfinished painting from 1994, hanging in her house. It is a reminder for her of how far she has come and to never to put down her brushes again. She incorporates her Father’s memory into a large majority of her work. The lines in her work are made from the antique bed springs from her Father’s childhood bed.
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| About the Artist |
Sharon Spillar is an abstract expressionist. Her passion is for the abstract. Her paintings are very contemporary and bold in there existence. She recreates images, both from nature and from within, bringing the vision to form through the use of color, composition,and texture. Her finished pieces communicate a strong and vivid emotional statement on canvas.
One of her most exciting new series is the "Daily Series". The series came about from her frustration of not being able to paint everyday. She came to the conclusion that even on the busiest of days, She could paint something challenging and powerful yet on a smaller scale. The paintings are mostly Golden Acrylics on vellum, mylar, or occasionally on canvas. The paintings themselves are a little larger than 10.2x15.2cm They are double matted for a finished size of 27.9x35.6cm or 35.6x27.9cm. Each painting is signed and dated on the inner matt.
Sharon has numerous paintings in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Malaysia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, Denmark, Iceland, and Canada. Please visit her web site, www.spillarstudios.com , to view current work available for sale.
All artwork by Sharon Spillar is copyrighted. All reproduction rights belong solely to the artist. The artwork may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from the artist
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Aachen
2006 Oil on canvas 76.2x101.6 |
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Painted with brushes, knifes and bed springs. |
Anais Two
2004 Oil on canvas 101.6x152.4 |
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Painted with brushes, knifes and bed springs. |
City Lights
2006 Oil on canvas 76.2x101.6 |
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Painted with brushes, knifes and bed springs. |
Daily 8-17-05
2005 Golden Acrylic on vellum 10.2x15.2cm |
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From the "Daily Series". The series came about from her frustration of not being able to paint everyday. She came to the conclusion that even on the busiest of days, She could paint something challenging and powerful yet on a smaller scale. The
paintings are mostly Golden Acrylics on vellum, mylar, or occasionally on canvas. The paintings themselves are a little larger than 10.2x15.2cm They are double matted for a finished size of 27.9x35.6cm or 35.6x27.9cm. Each painting is signed and dated on the inner matt. Check out www.spillarstudios.com for available Daily's for sale. |
Daily 10-17-05
2005 Golden Acrylic on mylar 10.2x15.2cm |
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From the "Daily Series". The series came about from her frustration of not being able to paint everyday. She came to the conclusion that even on the busiest of days, She could paint something challenging and powerful yet on a smaller scale. The
paintings are mostly Golden Acrylics on vellum, mylar, or occasionally on canvas. The paintings themselves are a little larger than 10.2x15.2cm They are double matted for a finished size of 27.9x35.6cm or 35.6x27.9cm. Each painting is signed and dated on the inner matt. Check out www.spillarstudios.com for available Daily's for sale. |
Fliege Der Nr. Sieben
2006 Acrylic on canvas 76.2x76.2 |
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This painting is from Sharon’s "Fly Fishing series". Not that she has ever fly fished. But, in honor of her brother, Steve. He spent many a day on the road for sales, and never let the bottom line get in the way of a great stream. Watching it for some might be like paint drying. But, for me it is a thing of grace and beauty. Being one with nature and recreating the arc and line of such small flying creatures. For those unable to become one, they will never succeed. It is only the artisan with line that ever come close to the feeling that they can fly and with amazing grace they catch the fish. Only to release it back into the water for a tale some will never believe.
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Night Fly
2005 acrylic on canvas 76.2x101.6 |
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This painting is from Sharon’s "Fly Fishing series". Not that she has ever fly fished. But, in honor of her brother, Steve. He spent many a day on the road for sales, and never let the bottom line get in the way of a great stream. Watching it for some might be like paint drying. But, for me it is a thing of grace and beauty. Being one with nature and recreating the arc and line of such small flying creatures. For those unable to become one, they will never succeed. It is only the artisan with line that ever come close to the feeling that they can fly and with amazing grace they catch the fish. Only to release it back into the water for a tale some will never believe.
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Serenity
2006 Oil on canvas 40.6x50.8 |
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From the "Tranquility Series". Inspired by water and the cleansing properties of spending time in nature |
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