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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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| Amanta
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Amanta specializes in Syncretic Art, the fusion of visual art (sculpture, painting, encaustic, mixed media); video; surround-sound audio; music (voice, piano, percussion); theatre; and dance.
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| About the Artist |
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\"I strive to communicate the deep impulses of artistic intent through line, shape, sound and movement. I use found resources to create symbolic works that speak directly to the deeper aspects of the human psyche. In the term “found resources”, I include both found objects and people: through spontaneous words and actions. By “symbolic” I refer to the power of an object to trigger the unconscious mind, sparking a numinous experience: an ‘a-hah!’ moment, or a deep reflective state in which new insights emerge. Symbolic works catapult the viewer into a new level of awareness or understanding.
Commencing a project without preconceptions as to end result is key to my artistic process. I thrive on the element of chance; the challenge of the unknown: creating art from any of the diverse resources available to me, through sculpture, painting, video, sound installation, performance, voice, percussion, piano, dance and/or theatre.\"
Amanta has travelled extensively, circumnavigating the world several times.
Amanta Scott is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Leading Tone Arts Productions Inc., an innovative not-for-profit charitable arts organization that promotes arts, environmental and cross-cultural awareness, educating through installations, exhibitions, workshops and performances around the world. |
| Artist's Videos |
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| Perdidos Los Queridos (2007)
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(Duration: 00:36:20)
Perdidos Los Queridos is a collage or moving tapestry of interviews with women speaking about those they have loved and lost. Faces of the interviewees are layered over images of Canadian landscape juxtaposed with images appropriated from televised news broadcasts. The pace is slow, hypnotic and vaguely perplexing. There is a deliberate disconnect between the stories told by the women and the video imagery. I invited people from all cultures to participate in the interviews. Few were willing to speak about those they had lost or their experiences in war-torn lands. I encountered a powerful silence; whether it was fear of recrimination or respect for the dead, many exhibited a just and honourable reluctance to speak. The camera invades privacy, exposing, sensationalizing and de-personalizing. In this age of communication we are constantly bombarded by news: we ?witness? global disasters and wars on a daily basis to the point that it becomes almost commonplace. Have we become inured to what we now know, hear and see? We risk forgetting that these mangled bodies smeared across the television screen are people who once loved and were loved by others. With this in mind, I chose to contrast each woman?s personal and detailed story with impersonal and recurring news images. In avoiding the specifics associated with any given horror as witnessed on the news and focusing on personal stories I aim to draw attention back to the personal level: urging contemplation of the subtler underlying issues of inter-cultural unrest, our shifting Canadian identity, the importance of every individual and the loss to humanity upon their passing, and the continued hope for peace in the world. Perdidos Los Queridos was created in honour of those lost through the March 11 2004 train bombing in Madrid.
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| Shellshock (2007)
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(Duration: 00:18:32)
A syncretic art production conceived, composed, costumed and directed by Amanta Scott, featuring an encaustic sculpture, broken eggshells, new music, voice, choir and dance.
Shellshock was created in honour of those killed in the train bombing in Madrid, March 11 2004.
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| Glove Forest (2002)
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(Duration: 00:05:26)
An interactive audio video sculpture installation addressing loss, our environment and accountability. The video collage features images of nature juxtaposed with footage of landfill sites, merged with semi-translucent faces of young and old expressing personal experiences of loss, the environment and questioning our role and responsibility. Glove Forest features surround-sound audio and video collages with an evolving installation of gloves pledged from visitors.
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| Glove Forest exhibit: Art Gall (2002)
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(Duration: 00:00:51)
This 50 second video demonstrates the experience of walking through the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Algoma.
Glove Forest features video, a surround sound audio collage played through speakers mounted inside glove-tree sculptures, and an evolving installation of gloves pledged from visitors.
For the surround sound audio collage words were extracted from interviews with the public and edited into layered rhythmic loops on five discrete audio channels, each approximately two-minutes in duration.
The audio collage is built upon found words;
the video: found visuals; the sculpture: found gloves.
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| Education and biography |
Critically acclaimed as 'cutting edge', 'ground breaking' and 'strikingly innovative', Amanta Scott has exhibited and performed extensively in art galleries, museums, theatres, dance, concert venues and festivals throughout Asia and North America including: National Gallery of Canada; The Canadian Embassy in Tokyo; Ilan Cultural Centre Theatre, Taiwan; Singapore International Arts Festival; Royal Ontario Museum; Edmonton Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Ontario; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery...
Amanta received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Toronto and studied sculpture at Central Technical School Art Centre. |
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