200 of the best artists from the beginning of XX century to our days.

The British newspaper The Times made a rating of 200 best artists, who lived in since the beginning of XX century to our days.

The publication four months ago, asked its readers to vote for the most famous figures of art of this time. For different artists received 1.4 million votes.
As a result the first place with 21,587 votes, won the great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The last line rating busy modern Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sudzhimoto. Second place was given to the French Impressionist Paul Cezanne, readers have chosen the third founder of the Austrian Art Nouveau paintings of Gustav Klimt.
In the first ten are also on the two French impressionist Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, the famous, including his scandalous installing a urinal, an American painter Jackson Pollock.

Top ten close the pop art legend Andy Warhol, the representative of the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning and the famous modernist Piet Mondrian.
According to the newspaper, at first glance, the results of this survey may seem predictable, but you can find some oddities. For example, what makes the contemporary artist Martin Kippenburger, whose picture, in particular, are presented in Saatchi Gallery, in the top twenty grand?

According to newspaper reviewers, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and does not deserve such a high place, as 19-e, in this representative of the company - even the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch in his masterpiece "The Scream" is only 46 th place.

Even if we assume that Kahlo is awarded due to the fact that her paintings express the feminine essence, seems strange that Louise Bourgeois, the impact that had on future generations of its work, was only 70 th.
As the paper says, the best of British artists in the rankings - Francis Bacon - only the 12 th, 30 th place is super popular in the UK Lucien Freud. Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst took the 52-th and 53 th places respectively.
From the Russian artists in the rankings appear Wassily Kandinsky (15 th), the creator of "Black Square Kasimir Malevich (17 th). 95-m in the list marked by the Ukrainian-American artist and sculptor Alexander Archipenko, whose work is represented in almost all the major museums of the world. 135-e was replaced by one of the founders of constructivist Alexander Rodchenko.

Twenty of the best artists of the XX and the beginning of XXI century

1. Picasso
2. Paul Cezanne
3. Gustav Klimt
4. Claude Monet
5. Marcel Duchamp
6. Henri Matisse
7. Jackson Pollock
8. Andy Warhol
9. Willem de Kooning
10. Piet Mondrian
11. Paul Gauguin
12. Francis Bacon
13. Robert Rauschenberg
14. Georges Braque
15. Wassily Kandinsky
16. Constantin Brancusi
17. Kasimir Malevich
18. Jasper Johns
19. Frida Kahlo

20. Martin Kippenberger

21. Paul Klee
22. Egon Schiele
23. Donald Judd
24. Bruce Nauman
25. Alberto Giacometti
26. Salvador Dali
27. Auguste Rodin
28. Mark Rothko
29. Edward Hopper
30. Lucian Freud
31. Richard Serra
32. Rene Magritte
33. David Hockney
34. Philip Guston
35. Henri Cartier-Bresson
36. Pierre Bonnard
37. Jean-Michel Basquiat
38. Max Ernst
39. Diane Arbus
40. Georgia O'Keeffe
41. Cy Twombly
42. Max Beckmann
43. Barnett Newman
44.  Giorgio De Chirico
45. Roy Lichtenstein
46. Edvard Munch
47. Pierre Auguste Renoir
48. Man Ray
49. Henry Moore
50. Cindy Sherman
51. Jeff Koons
52. Tracey Emin
53. Damien Hirst
54. Yves Klein
55. Henri Rousseau
56. Chaim Soutine
57. Arshile Gorky
58. Amedeo Modigliani
59. Umberto Boccioni
60. Jean Dubuffet
61. Eva Hesse
62. Edouard Vuillard
63. Carl Andre
64. Juan Gris
65. Lucio Fontana
66. Franz Kline
67. David Smith
68. Joseph Beuys
69. Alexander Calder
70. Louise Bourgeois
71. Marc Chagall
72. Gerhard Richter
73. Balthus
74. Joan Miro
75. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
76. Frank Stella
77. Georg Baselitz
78. Francis Picabia
79.Jenny Saville
80. Dan Flavin
81. Alfred Stieglitz
82. Anselm Kiefer
83. Matthew Barney
84. George Grosz
85. Bernd And Hilla Becher
86. Sigmar Polke
87. Brice Marden
88. Maurizio Cattelan
89. Sol LeWitt
90. Chuck Close
91. Edward Weston
92. Joseph Cornell
93. Karel Appel
94. Bridget Riley
95. Alexander Archipenko
96. Anthony Caro
97. Richard Hamilton
98. Clyfford Still
99. Luc Tuymans
100. Claes Oldenburg

101. Eduardo Paolozzi
102. Frank Auerbach
103. Dinos and Jake Chapman
 104. Marlene Dumas
 105. Antoni Tapies
 106. Giorgio Morandi
107. Walker Evans
108. Nan Goldin
109. Robert Frank
110. Georges Rouault
 111. Jean Arp
112. August Sander
113. James Rosenquist
114. Andreas Gursky
115. Eugene Atget
116. Jeff Wall
117. Ellsworth Kelly
118. Bill Brandt
119. Christo And Jeanne Claude
120. Howard Hodgkin
121. Josef Albers
122. Piero Manzoni
123. Agnes Martin
124. Anish Kapoor
125. L.S. Lowry
126. Robert Motherwell
127. Robert Delaunay
128. Stuart Davis
129. Ed Ruscha
130. Gilbert & George
131. Stanley Spencer
132. James Ensor
133. Fernand Leger
134. Brassai (Gyula Halasz)
135. Alexander Rodchenko
136. Robert Ryman
137. Ad Reinhardt
138. Hans Bellmer
139. Isa Genzken
140. Kees Van Dongen
141. Weegee
142. Paula Rego
143. Thomas Hart Benton
144. Hans Hofmann
145. Vladimir Tatlin
146. Odilon Redon
147. George Segal
148. Jorg Immendorff
149. Robert Smithson
150. Peter Doig
151. Ed and Nancy Kienholz
152. Richard Prince
153. Ansel Adams
154. Naum Gabo
155. Diego Rivera
156. Barbara Hepworth
157. Nicolas De Stael
158. Walter De Maria
159. Felix Gonzalez-Torres
160. Giacomo Balla
161. Ben Nicholson
162. Anthony Gormley
163. Lyonel Feininger
164. Emil Nolde
165. Mark Wallinger
166. Hermann Nitsch
167. Paul Signac
168. Jean Tinguely
169. Kurt Schwitters
170. Grayson Perry
171. Julian Schnabel
172. Raymond Duchamp-Villon
173. Robert Gober
174. Duane Hanson
175. Richard Diebenkorn
176. Alex Katz
177. Alighiero E Boetti
178. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
179. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
180. Jacques-Henri Lartigue
181. Robert Morris
182. Sarah Lucas
183. Jannis Kounellis
184. Chris Burden
185. Otto Dix
186. David Bomberg
187. Fischli & Weiss
188. Augustus John
189. Marsden Hartley
190. Takashi Murakami
191. James Turrell
192. Isamu Noguchi
193. Robert Mangold
194. John Chamberlain
195. Charles Demuth
196. John Currin
197. Alberto Burri
198. Arnulf Rainer
199. David Salle
200. Hiroshi Sugimoto
 

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