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They've narrowed their list to 300 ... with this round of voting they'll cut it to a final 200.

 

Cast your votes

 

Vote for as many as you like.

 

If I may, I'd like to take this opportunity to campaign for the inclusion of Wayne Thiebaud on your lists. I love his work.

 

Who else are among your favorites?

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I voted for my favorites, but those lists are strange. I'd never consider Thomas Hart Benton a "modern artist". And they leave out a few. But all in all a good list.

 

Favorites: Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Guston, Anselm Keifer, and Donald Judd. Painters mostly.

 

Edit: They did leave out film makers for the most part. Some of whom are accomplished tactile artists as well. I would have voted for David Lynch, had he been there.

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I Voted!

 

Joseph Cornell

Richard Diebenkorn

Marcel Duchamp

Ian Hamilton-Finlay

Philip Guston

Damien Hirst

Anselm Kiefer

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Ryman

Kurt Schwitters

Chaim Soutine

 

Soutine, Guston, and Diebenkorn because when I look at their work, it makes me want to paint. Duchamp because you just can't ignore him (IMHO the most important artist of the past century, altho not my favorite). Schwitters, Cornell, and Rauschenberg because their work has had the most influence on my work (collage/sense of play). I like the concrete poetry of Ian Hamilton-Finlay, and the slicked-up death-obsessed work of Damien Hirst. Ryman's white-on-white squares have to be seen in person to really be appreciated, and Kiefer's the best living artist IMHO - I like the scale and physicality of his stuff, and his willfullness to address Big Topics in his work.

 

If I had to pick just one it would be Rauschenberg - his stuff from the 50's-60's (combines, screenprint paintings, performances) is just brilliant.

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am i missing something or is the next button missing on my page, the list only goes through M for me. hmmmppph.

 

Diane Arbus

Robert Frank

Wassily Kandinsky

Barbara Kruger

Ellsworth Kelly

El Lissitzky

 

 

I am disappointed they didn't put Hannah Hoch on the list, but her counterparts made it. *sigh*

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am i missing something or is the next button missing on my page, the list only goes through M for me. hmmmppph.

Click on the "Vote for your favourite modern artist: view our shortlist of 200" link below the pic of Picasso towards the top of the page to get to the full list.

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Click on the "Vote for your favourite modern artist: view our shortlist of 200" link below the pic of Picasso towards the top of the page to get to the full list.

 

 

thanks, :). I knew I was missing something. it is monday and i did leave my coffee at home. *sigh*

 

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William Wegman made the list. oooh. well, ummm, that's good for me since i did get to be in a show and have my piece hung next to wegman's piece, but really, william wegman, why not anne gedies (or whoever the baby flower photograph woman is). i'm just not a big wegman fan.

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