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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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| Ricardo Morin |
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| About the Artist |
In my work, I make no reference to any specific art historical movement, nor to avant-garde moderniste agendas. I look at art in the making as the fleshy product of human experience. Yet, for me an image or object of art seeks not to explain what the meaning of the experience is; rather the image manifests the act itself to provoke an interpretation.
My recent works “2005-07” project a synthetic perspective of pictorial space manifesting infinity: Art allows us to transcend the material world of signs, and to reach for the infinite. Just as our own idiopathic nature is oblivious to causality, my aesthetic frame embraces all the senses with the image as its residue.
There are no preliminary sketches nor a preconceived notion of the final composition. In a gestural and intuitive fashion, I use the plane of the canvas or paper as an active platform onto which the drawing or painting medium is applied-- in variegated densities, layer after layer, transparent or textural--; the works transform through a gradual process of accruing.
As with my oil paintings, my drawings and watercolors—including recent digital paintings-- operate autonomously; however, they act within an accelerated framework as a counterpoint to the lengthy progression of the oil paintings.
The inner rhythm of each composition unfolds to guide a series of shifts in which form is constructed, buried and reconstructed: exalted, veiled or reattained, thanks in part to the very gritty and sumptuous nature of the medium. Thus color, as texture, establishes the emotional landscape of each work. The finished work stands as a concentration of the many layers, each former state through numerous subsequent strata is integral to the final result. A sense of multi-directional movement keeps the eye in perpetual motion, glancing over delineated shapes and peering through transparencies and arabesque markings. A sense of having been charged, the fluidity echoes the evolution of forms below the surface. Fueling my vision is the drive to push the emotional and accidental to a communicable degree of sublimity. I am engaged in a constant struggle, of abiding and testing out my own revelations until the work becomes omniscient.
In an ongoing dialogue, I work on many canvases and drawings simultaneously allowing them to inform one another. I choose the golden proportion 1=1.618 as a format that is manifestly inherent of infinity in order to divest a dialogue with the fluidity of the medium, and to conduct a triangulation of the plane, thus reasserting its flatness and object-like qualities. In reality, it is just a calculated pretext to contextualize and validate my own psyche and idiosyncrasy: an extended thought process made concrete.
Seeking a degree of universality, my vision has evolved by retracing the unifying plasticity of the masters of the classical West into the cacophony of a multicultural world. Yet as a strong believer in the role of the author as outside of marketing trends, I hold my own stake, and remain steadfast to the conviction that what defines me, indeed all artists, is absolute freedom. |
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Triangulation 1
2006 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 3
2006 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 2
2006 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 6
2006 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 5
2006 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 17
2006 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 16
2006 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 20
2006-07 oil on linen 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 21
2007 16 |
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Triangulation Series 10
2006-07 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation Series 7
2006-07 37 x 60 inches |
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Triangulation 30
2007 oil on linen 26x42 inches |
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Triangulation 36
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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body color, sanguine and sumi ink |
Triangulation 37
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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Body Color, Sanguine and Sumi Ink on paper |
Triangulation 38
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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Body Color, sanguines and Sumi Ink on Paper |
Triangulation 39
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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Body Color, Sanguine and Sumi Ink on Paper |
Triangulation 40
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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Body Color, Sanguine and Sumi Ink on Paper |
Triangulation I
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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Body Color, Sanguine and Sumi Ink on Paper |
Triangulation II
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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Body Color and Sanguine on Paper |
Triangulation III
2008 22 by 30 inches |
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Body Color, Sanguine, Charcoal and Sumi Ink on Paper |
Platonic Triangulation
2008 Body Color on paper 22 x 30 inches |
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A state of meditation manifests that the narrative harvest of a collective iconography underpins the signifying observing self and its observed medium as one and the same–particularly as it is conjured up by its additive and process-oriented nature.
I choose the golden proportion 1=1.618 as a congruent format that is manifestly inherent of infinity in order to divest a dialogue between the fluidity of the medium and its geometry. At the same time, I conduct a triangulation of the plane which reasserts its paradoxical nature as an object: where the fictitious flatness of the plane of the canvas plays against the illusive spatial depth of forms expressed on it. |
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| Education and biography |
EDUCATION
MFA, Stage Design, Design Dept.; Yale School of Drama, Yale University (1983)
BFA, Painting, Art Dept.; State University of New York at Buffalo (1980)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998- “Ricardo Morin and Niccolo Cataldi” curated by Barbara Hunt and presented by Visual AIDS at Saint Mark’s Church, New York, NY
1992- “Paintings by Ricardo Morin: NYC Series 1992” curated by artist Carlos Zerpa; Gallery of the Consulate of Venezuela; New York, NY
1980- “Buffalo Series 1980” (one man show) curated by Ricardo Morin, Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1979- “Buffalo Series 1979” (thesis show) curated by academic advisor, artist Seymour Drumlevitch, Alamo Gallery, State University of New York at Buffalo; Buffalo, NY
1976- “Artworks by Ricardo Morin” curated by academic advisor, artist James Jipson; Villa Maria College, Buffalo, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 – “In the Flesh” curated by Hong Kong artist, Jo-ey Tang; February Visual AIDS Gallery on the Web @ TheBody; New York City, NY
2006 – “Unusual Portraits” curated by Jim Furlong; Hudson Guild, Gallery II; New York, NY
- “The Male Portrait” curated by Richard Renaldi; December Visual AIDS Gallery on the Web @ TheBody; New York City, NY
2005- “Release” curated by Laurie A. Cumbo and Kimberly E. Gant; MOCADA Museum; Brooklyn, NY
2004- “The Election Show” (not juried open call) University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2000- “Lightbox: A Traveling Exhibit” curated by Stefanie Nagorka and Sur Rodney; first launched on the web in December’s Visual AIDS Gallery @ TheBody, as well as displayed at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; and later at the Robeson Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ through January 2001
1999- “Reflections: Seven Artists” curated by Ricardo Morin; March Visual AIDS Gallery on the Web @ TheBody; New York City, NY
1994- “XIV Salón Municipal de Pintura: Homenaje a Carlos Cruz Diez” Galería Municipal de Arte; juried by: Alexis Blanco; Natalia Afanasiev; Pedro Báez; and Emilio Agra. Alcaldía de Maracay, Venezuela
1990- “Homenaje a Paez” curated by Cultural Attaché Lyda Aponte de Zacklin; Gallery of the Consulate of Venezuela; New York, NY
1989- “Artists in the Market Place” curated by Philip Verre, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
1980- “38th Western New York Show” Albright Knox Art Gallery; juried by Stephen Prokopoff (Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art; Boston, MA), receiving the Wallcovering Reed Foundation Award; Buffalo, NY
PERSPECTIVIST
2006 till present - Adjunct Professor at Pratt Manhattan Institute, Course: Pictorial Perspective
1998-2006 - MSNBC, Matthew David Events; Jack Morton Worldwide; Production Design Group; Hotopp Associates Limited; Eddie Knasiak Design; Design Etc., Inc.; Robin Wagner; Tom Schwinn.
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