Tuesday, March 18, 2008

my favorite artists.

pretentious art history major. in order-ish.

1. andy warhol (pop)
2. bas jan ader (conceptual)
3. piet mondrian (geometric abstraction)
4. mark rothko (abstract expressionism)
5. jeff koons (neo pop)


6. wassily kandinsky (abstract/russian constructivism and suprematism/bauhaus)
7. man ray (dada)
8. kazimir malevich (geometric abstraction/russian suprematism)


9. roy lichtenstein (pop)
10. marcel duchamp (dada)
11. dan flavin (minimalism)
12. alvar aalto (finnish modernism)
13. josef albers (geometric abstraction)
14. karlheinz weinberger (1950's counterculture photography)


15. yves klein (conceptual, sort of)
16. stuart davis (american modernism)
17. felix gonzalaz-torres (conceptual/installation)


18. alejandro otereo (latin american geometric abstraction)
19. jacob lawrence (dynamic cubism/folk)
20. gerrit rietveld (de stijl)
21. aleksander rodchenko (russian constructivism)
22. jean arp (dada/surrealism/abstract)
23. mies van der rohe (bauhaus)


24. theo van doesburg (de stijl)
25. gordon matta-clark (conceptual/earth art)

1 comment:

widnesian said...

What, no Christo? Goldsworthy? Pffft. x