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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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| Christian Marc
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Christian Marc Schmidt (1977) is a multi-disciplinary designer and media artist. His interest in working with information has lead him to a parametric and content-oriented approach and process in his work.
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| About the Artist |
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I aim to reveal the codes and patterns inherent within and intrinsic to the information I work with. These patterns, by directly representing the information they are derived from, enable us to comprehend their source not only on an intellectual, but also a visceral level. Consequently, my method is primarily bottom-up. This approach opposes the single, radical gesture, in that it instigates a careful process of additive analysis, inseparable from the context within which it operates and, ultimately, the object. In what I call an adaptive practice, the object is so closely linked to the content it discloses, as that any change in the source will significantly alter its visual representation. We inhabit a world overwrought with symbolism, in which feelings, emotions and beliefs often suppress fact. By maintaining a rational process, we may produce work which resonates not with super-added, but authentic meaning. Its purpose is disclosure—a literal carrier of information, with the potential to create commonality in the liminal areas between exceedingly disparate cultures. |
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| All Horizons (2008)
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(Duration: 00:08:33)
All Horizons is based on a selection of 150 photographs taken by 127 individuals under a Creative Commons license. I was interested in selecting material that made the horizon the subject of the image. The photographs are ordered serially to form a narrative describing a single, archetypal gesture—told through the lenses of independent agents, brought together by means of a single, external objective and curatorial intent. By treating the horizon as a constant, the work comments on the universally shared perception and experience of space, across cultures and locations, and reflects on how our individual experience at all times is part of a larger continuum.
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| Brooklyn Bridge (2007)
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(Duration: 00:03:30)
This piece is part of a series of work dealing with the idea of collective gestalt. It is comprised of nearly 100 images of the Brooklyn Bridge, taken by 74 individual photographers under a Creative Commons license. The images were arranged sequentially to form a single, archetypal gesture that describes the space through a range of vantage points. The result is an assemblage of different perspectives and moments in time. It elevates the meaning of gesture from a singular or disparate occurrence to a multiplicity, a link between individual agents. It raises questions of a universal perception of space across cultures, as well as the collective meaning of place, in particular a place—like the Brooklyn Bridge—of pivotal, even global significance.
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| Grand Central Terminal (2007)
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(Duration: 00:04:18)
This piece is comprised of over 100 images of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, taken by nearly 100 individual photographers under a Creative Commons license. These images are arranged sequentially to form a single, archetypal gesture that describes the space through a range of vantage points. The resulting video is an assemblage of different perspectives and moments in time. It elevates the meaning of gesture from a singular or disparate occurrence to a multiplicity, a link between individual agents. It raises questions of a universal perception of space across cultures, as well as the collective meaning of place, in particular a place of pivotal, even “global” significance.
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| Atlantic Yards (2007)
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(Duration: 00:07:13)
Site: Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, NY. January 7, 2007, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM
For the series Invisible Borders, I use sequenced still images to trace paths around political and/or historical boundaries within cities—borders which may have had, or will have, a profound influence on the urban morphology of a city.
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| Education and biography |
| Christian Marc Schmidt is a German/American designer and media artist, educated in Europe and the United States, and currently residing in New York. Christian earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, and went on to attend the Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut, where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 2004. Christian has accepted awards from organizations based in the US, Europe and Asia, and exhibited throughout the US, including in New York, New Jersey, New Haven, Denver, and New Orleans. Christian currently teaches in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. |
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