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- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most famous contemporary artists and American painters of all time, emerged from the early ‘80s American Punk scene in New York and swiftly became recognised in the international art circuit for work such as his abstract paintings of faces.
- Peter Doig (b. 1959) Peter Doig is a Scottish artist who spent most of his formative years in Trinidad and Canada, and studied art in England. His contemporary art is described by the Saatchi Gallery as containing themes of magical realism, “capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquillity, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream.”
- Christopher Wool (b. 1955) Christopher Wool first made a name for himself in the New York contemporary fine arts scene in the 1980’s. He is best known for his modern art paintings of words, his trademark white canvases with large black stencilled letters.
- Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956) Rudolf Stingel is an Italian artist based in New York. Since the ‘80s, Stingel’s contemporary art is concerned with interrogating his chosen medium of painting and subverting notions of authenticity, hierarchy, meaning, and context.
- Mark Bradford
- Olafur Eliasson
- Shirin Neshat
- Banksy
- Ai Weiwei
- Tracey Emin
- Liu Xiaodong
- Takashi Murakami
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Edward Ruscha
b. 1961 in Los Angeles Mark Bradford is a contemporary artist working primarily with abstraction. He is known for grid-like, large-scale artworks combining paint with collage, incorporating items of his daily life such as remnants of found posters or business cards. In his work, Bradford explores social and political issues such as marginalisation ...
b.1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark The Danish-Icelandic contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson is widely known for large-scale, site-specific art installations that make use of water, light and air temperature to create an immersive viewer’s experience. The major themes of his body of work are our relationship with nature, especially now in the current cli...
b. 1957, in Qazvin, Iran Shirin Neshat is a visual artist, working with photography, video and film. In her artworks, she explores the relationship between women and the Islamic cultural and religious system of values. In particular, her aim is that viewers “take away with them not some heavy political statement, but something that really touches t...
b. 1974 in Bristol, UK Banksy is the pseudonym of one of the most famous street artists and political activists, whose identity is only known to his family, his closest collaborators and a handful of fellow artists. Banksy’s artistic practice includes urban interventions and illicitly hung artworks in museums. His art is provocative, witty and irre...
b.1957 in Beijing, China Considered “China’s dissident artist”, Ai Weiweihas gotten in trouble multiple times for being openly critical towards his country’s government. His studio has been destroyed, his passport confiscated, and he himself was also arrested. Yet, that never stopped him from making meaningful artworks commenting on human rights an...
b. 1963 in Croydon, UK Tracey Emin’s works are deeply autobiographical and confessional. Her practice includes drawing, paintings, film, photography, sculpture and sewn appliqué. Emin expresses timeless themes such as love, loss and grief in an intimate, visceral and honest way. “The most beautiful thing is honesty, even if it’s really painful to l...
b. 1963 in Jinzhou, China Liu Xiaodong can be described as the chronicler of modern life. One of the most prominent figures within the Chinese Neo-Realist group in the early 1990s, he often paints en plein air, exploring and documenting the developing economy of China. His style is characterised by loose, thick brushstrokes that, on the one hand, m...
b. 1962 in, Itabashi City, Tokyo, Japan Takashi Murakami’s “superflat” aesthetic is widely recognised. The artist has drawn from traditional Japanese painting and pop culture to create a distinctive colourful and bi-dimensional style. His oeuvre comprises paintings, sculptures, prints and even merchandise and collectibles. These include repeated mo...
b. 1960 in Padua, Italy If Marcel Duchamp were alive today, he would probably have loved Maurizio Cattelan and the kind of satire he uses to shock the world of art. An Italian contemporary artist, he is best known for hyperrealistic sculptures of people such as the Pope (killed by a meteor) and Hitler (begging for mercy on his knees), but also artw...
b. 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska Ed Ruscha combines words and images in collages, using everyday objects as art materials. In his work, Ed Ruscha is able to transform the ordinary in extraordinary. For his artworks, he takes inspiration from the imagery and techniques of commercial art and advertising, in a way that resembles the approach of Pop artists....
Dec 7, 2020 · Perhaps best known for his work deconstructing biased narratives in European history paintings, Titus Kaphar has been cementing his status as a major force in contemporary art. This year, he unveiled a new series of paintings to further demonstrate the breadth of his artistic vision.
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Jul 15, 2019 · The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age. Three artists and a pair of curators came together at The New York Times to attempt to make a list of the era’s essential artworks....
- Marisa Takal. B. 1991, Montclair, New Jersey. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Advertisement. Can you tell us about the work you made in 2020? Ironically, 2020 has been the year that I’ve made the least amount of work.
- Michaela Yearwood-Dan. B. 1994, London. Lives and works in London. Can you tell us about the work you made in 2020? Life continues to inspire me, so the work I’ve been making still reflects life, both on a personal and a wider, society-encompassing level.
- Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) B. 1976, Chicago. Lives and works in Los Angeles. How did the events of 2020 impact you as an artist? Initially, 2020 was to be a creative explosion for me and a time to prepare for my next decade-long sub-narrative for my historical epic.
- Erin Armstrong. B. 1990, Canada. Lives and works in Toronto. Can you tell us about the work you made in 2020? The work I have been making this year is in reflection of the current human condition, through the individual experience of being alive in a time of isolation, chaos, and uncertainty.
Feb 4, 2024 · Top 100 Contemporary Artists. Andy Warhol (1928–1987, United States) Pablo Picasso (1881–1973, Spain) Gerhard Richter (1932–, Germany) Joseph Beuys (1921–1986, Germany) Cindy Sherman (1954–, United States) Bruce Nauman (1941–, United States) Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010, France) Georg Baselitz (1938–, Germany) Wolfgang Tillmans (1968–, Germany)
Mar 24, 2017 · The Big Picture offers an approachable and accessible overview of contemporary art since the millennium, through just 10 works by 10 artists. Drawn from the fields of photography, painting, performance, sculpture, installation, video, film, and public art, the works selected range widely—from Andreas Gursky’s large-scale color photograph of ...
