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Famous Modern Artists Influencer of

Contemporary Art (1860s to early 1900s).
POP ART is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom
and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement
presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery
from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books
“Marilyn Monroe”, 1962,
and mundane mass-produced cultural objects. ANDY WARHOL, Silk Screen Printing
Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual
art movement known as pop art. Warhol elevated ordinary objects by turning them into works of fine
art. Using processes borrowed from the advertising industry, like silkscreen printing, he infused
highbrow culture with lowbrow images and materials. He also explored modern celebrity through the
repetition of iconic images, which held a mirror up to society's obsessions. He concocted a bridge
between banality and opulence in a way that was easy to understand and poignant in its social
commentary. Warhol revolutionized the business world of advertising thru silk screen printing.
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CONTEMPORARY ART: Today and Beyond

“contemporary art” is relatively recent. In art world discourse
throughout the world, it appears in bursts of special usage in
the 1920s and 1930s, and again during the 1960s, but it
remains subsidiary to terms––such as “modern art,”
“modernism,” and, after 1970, “postmodernism”––that
highlight art’s close but contested relationships to social and
cultural modernity. “Contemporary art” achieves a strong
sense, and habitual capitalization, only in the 1980s.
Subsequently, usage grew rapidly, to become ubiquitous by
2000. Contemporary art is now the undisputed name for
today’s art in professional contexts and enjoys widespread
resonance in public media and popular speech. Yet, its
valiance for any of the usual art-critical and historical purposes
remains contested and uncertain. One thing is for sure, KUMI YAMASHITA, Contemporary Art
Contemporary may be defined as the “Art of Today”. Shadow Artist, Born 1968. 52yo

Notable Contemporary Artist: PAINTING

1. ADRIAN GHENIE, born in Romania in 1977, when he became recognized internationally
during the mid-2000. His style is often praised for its powerful and dramatic quality achieved
through the deployment of untraditional painting techniques. A curiosity about his work is the lack
of the brush strokes, as Adrian Ghenie refuses to use brushes, making gestural and spontaneous
imagery only with his palette knife.
Eerie and messy-looking, his paintings bring out
vigorous scenes merging the exploration of
unconscious with important events in European
history. His work is represented by the Pace
Gallery in London, although many of his paintings
are collected worldwide, and part of some
important public collections.
“The Nightmare”, (Painted using palette knife), 2007
ADRIAN GHENIE (Born in 1977)


2. TALA MADANI, one of the most interesting figures in the younger generation of Iranian
painters. Although she’s been living in the US since the age of ten, her whimsical characters bear
the resemblance to stereotypical Middle Eastern males. She is mostly known for her satirical
comments on the absurd masculine rituals, playing with the notion of gender roles and sexuality.
Throughout her work, she addresses the aggressive
male behavior, associated with machismo in a
humorous and ironical way by placing her macho
middle-aged characters in embarrassing and
undignified situations.
“The Dance”, 2015

TALA MADANI


3. JENNY SAVILLE, emerged on the art scene as one of the artists associated with the Young
British Artists and raised to recognition through the support of Charles Saatchi, owner of the Saatchi
Gallery. She primarily works in the traditional field of figurative painting although her area of interest is
not something we regularly see and expect. Her large-scale paintings challenge our notions of beauty
through the series of nudes representing
grotesque and sometimes distorted bodies.
Obese women and bodies between genders
are some of the themes Jenny Saville is
famous for representing, bringing the
physicality to the surface as solid as it can be
caught on canvas. Her work is often
interpreted as a feminist statement and praised
for its unconventional qualities.
“Strategy”, 1993/1994. Oil on Canvas
JENNY SAVILLE


4. Charles Mayton, is a New York-based painter who works in the field of abstractionism. His
paintings are often auto-reflexive, contemplating on the medium itself. The meta-poetic discourse
dominates his work, as he explores different ways in which the artistic inspiration can be documented
on canvas. Abstract and conceptual, Charles Mayton’s paintings speak about themselves and the
process of their making. Blank spaces in the form of semiotic symbols can be seen as the trademark
of his work, cracks in the vivid and colorful surface, left for the
spectators to fill in the meaning. He is also engaged in the
dialogue with the past, the way in which pieces from the past
can be reconstructed and revitalized in different cultural and
intellectual contexts.
“Abstract expression as a redundant statement,”, 2014. Gouache and oil on canvas

CHARLES MAYTON


5. Mamma Anderson, is and established Swedish painter whose works can be seen worldwide, as
part of some of the most prominent museum collections. Some of her most recognizable works are
mystical landscapes inspired by the inherent Nordic folk art. Other works from her oeuvre include
private, domestic settings and genre scenes. Intimate and melancholic, her works challenge the
notion of space exterior or interior, bringing out the uncanny atmosphere, familiar and inviting, yet
distant from the viewer. Her style includes juxtaposition of
thick layers of paint with clear spaces in between, sometimes
reminiscent of the works of French impressionists. Mamma
Anderson was the winner of the Carnegie Art award in 2006,
one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of
contemporary Nordic painting.
“Looters”, 2010. Acrylic and oil on panel

MAMMA ANDERSON


6. Conor Backman, is an American artist who works in various mediums and whose paintings are
often merged with other art forms. He is experimenting in the field of painting, often intersecting it with
his sculptural practice. His innovative works challenge the perception of viewers, and most of it has to
do with them being done in the trompe l’oiel technique. Whether by optical illusion or through the use
of exterior objects pinned to the canvas, his artworks
frequently achieve three-dimensional effects. He is possibly
one of the leading experimenters among current
contemporary painters in the US.
Right “Satellite Painting”, 2015, Cast aqua resin over painted panel.
Left “Clock Painting for Sir Isaac Newton”, 2014. Oil on canvas over panel.
CONOR BACKMAN


7. Elizabeth Peyton, gained recognition in the mid-1990s when she became widely known for her
portraits of pop icons, celebrities and people she was emotionally engaged with. Her work was
always criticized as strongly influenced by the work of Andy Warhol. A range of celebrities was
portrayed by Peyton over the years from David Bowie and Nicole Kidman to alternative bands
like The
and Strokes
Pulp. Her idealized and joyful portraits are done
mostly in oil paint, although she sometimes works with
watercolor, pencil or charcoal. Elizabeth Peyton’s
celebration of the youth culture of the eighties and the
nineties was one of the most important artistic endeavors
to bring the figurative painting styles back on the scene.
“Jarvis”, 1996
ELIZABETH PEYTON


8. Ian Francis, is one of the most interesting painters of the younger generation of Britain’s artists.
His educational background in the illustration made a great influence on all of his works. His paintings
are done in the mixed media caught between fine art and graphic design. The dramatic scenery of his
paintings commentates on the human condition in the postmodern times, addressing the issues of
sensationalism, hyperreality and simulacra dominant in
contemporary society. Ian Francis is best known for his
complex and multi-layered paintings often depicting
violence and brutality in a video game-like manner and
urban environments.
“German Pavilion” 1929, 2014. Mixed media on wood panel.

IAN FRANCIS


9. Brett Amory, Currently based in Oakland, Brett Amory is widely famous for his Waiting series,
paintings which focus on the problem of the alienation in contemporary society. Inspired by the New
Topographics, the group of photographers in the 70’s focused on realistic representation of
landscape. Forty years after, Brett Amory began documenting lone individuals on the streets in San
Francisco, where he lived for more than a decade. But it
was only an initial inspiration as we later see only traces
of the documented locations. By blurring the documented
landscape, the people depicted on the paintings tend to
look even more disconnected and isolated individuals,
turning into allegories of solitude and loneliness. Recently
Brett Amory has been working on less melancholic
imagery painting more colorful scenes of the urban
environment.
“Waiting #126”, 2012. Oil on wood panel
BRETT AMORY


10. Michaël Borremans, is a painter and the filmmaker from Belgium. His painting style is
reminiscent of the Old Masters, which is not a coincidence as his influence varies from the Flemish
school to eighteenth-century art and classic works of impressionists. As a filmmaker, he is also gifted
when it comes to capturing those moments of dramatic and theatrical quality. Enigmatic and
mysterious, sometimes even disturbingly looking, his
portraits are often done in an unconventional way, with
subjects turned away from the viewers or sometimes
reduced only to their body parts, achieving a grotesque
effect on the viewers.
“Black Mould / Fiery Limbs”, 2015. Oil on cardboard

MICHAËL BORREMANS

Notable Contemporary Artist: INSTALLATION ART

11. Olafur Eliasson, Upon entering the Tate’s Turbine Hall,
visitors to Eliasson’s The weather project were greeted by a
huge glowing orb that hovered near the ceiling. A fine mist filled
the hall, diffusing its spellbinding glow throughout the room.
Because this work by the Danish-Icelandic artist effectively
used the entire volume of the space, it was called the largest
indoor contemporary artwork ever produced. The installation
became a phenomenon, and over two million people visited
during its run. The weather project fits into a wider trend,
beginning in the late 1990s, in which museums began to
regularly install monumental-scale artworks indoors as
exhibitions unto themselves.
“The Weather Project”, 2003. Installation Art
OLAFUR ELIASSON

Notable Contemporary Artist: SCULPTURE-INSTALLATION ART

12. Kara Walker, “A Subtlety” sculpture-installation art, housed in a former Brooklyn Domino
Sugar factory, encountered something that was far from subtle. Her enormous bright-white sculpture
of a nude woman was 35 feet tall and 75 feet long and covered with approximately 80,000
pounds white
refined of sugar. The effect was blindingly white. Yet the
woman in the sculpture presented as “black,” her pose and
exaggerated features drawing on two racial stereotypes of
African American women, as mammies and as
hypersexualized as well as historical sphinx statuary. With
this work, the New York artist also reminded us of the
innumerable horrors suffered by African slaves in the
international sugar trade.
“A Subtlety”, 2014 or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked
Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New
World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant,
KARA WALKER

Notable Contemporary Artist: PERFORMING ART

13. Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present was, in some respects, a very simple work. It
consisted of Belgrade-born, sixty-three-year-old performance artist Abramović sitting silent and still in
a chair across from another chair in which anyone could sit silently (one at a time) for however long
they wanted during business hours at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Abramović sat for the
entire run of her 2010 retrospective, which added up to 736 hours and 30 minutes.
Since the millennium, performance, a term currently
embraced by some but rejected by other artists who find
it too confining or inaccurate—has returned to being
considered one of the most progressive art forms of
today. Exhibitions such as Abramović’s are undoubtedly
one reason for this. Her show drew 850,000 visitors and
garnered worldwide media attention, spurring galleries
and museums to capitalize on the success.
“The Artist is Present”, 2010, Performing art,
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ

Notable Contemporary Artist: MIXED-INSTALLATION ART

14. Patricia Perez Eustaquio, This Filipino artist who works in various mediums, experimenting
with different materials through installation, drawing, and painting. The frames from her painting are
cut, resulting in canvases that evoke images of wilted flowers and carcasses. Her sculptures are
fashioned from fabric, covering objects with resin-
treated silk or crochet. The object is then removed,
to allow the fabric to retain its position, folds and
drapes. Her work examines the ideas of perception
and memory. Eustaquio’s solo exhibitions have been
held in Manila, New York, Taiwan, and Singapore. In
2016, her site-specific installation was featured in
the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
“The Mountain is Coming”, 2026,

Installation Art thru sculpture, drawings and paintings
PATRICIA PEREZ EUSTAQUIO

Notable Contemporary Art: MIXED-MEDIA ART

15. Vik Muniz, Jardim Gramacho, a 321-acre plot of land on the
northern edge of Rio de Janeiro, was the world’s largest garbage
dump until it closed in 2012. Between 2007 and 2010, the Jardim
became a kind of studio for Brazilian-born, New York- and Rio-
based artist Muniz. The artworks created there became a series
called Pictures of Garbage, which recreate iconic images from art
history using trash collected from the dump. Pictures of Garbage
also considers the aesthetics of contemporary political art. Muniz’s
work is political, but it does so by avoiding straightforward
propaganda and retaining various conceptual layers through its
complex formal processes. Very broadly, this is characteristic of
much politically engaged art today, for it to succeed from a critical
and especially market point of view, it cannot be too straightforward
with its messaging.
“Marat (Sebastião)”, 2008. Mixed-media Art
VIK MUNIZ

Notable Contemporary Artist: PHOTOGRAPHY ART

16. Andreas Gursky, his photography art measures almost 12 feet long and 7 feet high. Its
enormous size could have allowed for a wealth of compositional possibilities, but the photograph was
formally extremely simple. While the actual view (in Germany) was busy with power lines, trees, and
livestock, Gursky had removed all of these things through both analogue and digital processes. Use
of digital manipulations prompted a lively public discussion about whether photography had now
Become equal to painting as an art form. His works also
felt like a significant paradigm shift to an art public that
was not used to seeing color photography at such scale
and in such detail. From a distance, the effect was similar
to experiencing large-scale canvases by Color Field
Painting abstractionists like Mark Rothko or Barnett
Newman.
“Rhine II”, 1999, Photography art,

ANDREAS GURSKY

Numerous Contemporary Art Forms:

Contemporary 21st Century Art
Pop Art, Word Art, Conceptualism, Performance, Fluxus Movement, Installation, Video Installations,
Minimalism, Photo-Realist Art (Hyperrealism), Earthworks (Land or Environmental Art), Contemporary
Photography), Arte Povera., Supports-Surfaces, Contemporary Realism, Post-Minimalism, Feminist
Art, New Subjectivity, London School, Graffiti Art, Neo-Expressionist Art, Transavanguardia (Trans-
avant-garde), Britart (Young British Artists), Deconstructivist Design, Body Art, Chinese Cynical
Realism, Neo-Pop, Stuckism, New Leipzig School, Projection Art (21st Century) and Computer Art,
Advance Artworks; Encaustic Painting, Letras Y figuras, Miniaturismo, Panel Painting, Tapestry,
Drawing and Animation, Installation Art, Earth Art, Street Art and Digital Architecture, etc.
Performance Art; Poetry Performance (Improvisation), Contemporary Dance (World Dance), Mime
Act, Performance Still, Flash Mob, Prank Art, etc.
“I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good,

much is crap, most is somewhere in between.”
- Robert Hughes

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