The prize awarded him $100 000 to support his project and JR sold an additional six photographs for $850 000 to allocate more funds to help aspiring local artists. In 2011, JR won the Ted Prize (an award for people with a creative, bold wish to change the world) and established the Inside Out Project. The artist is recognized for his stunning portraits and street art. JR artistry is rebellious photography with an unconfirmed identity taking extreme risks to share his photographic perspective. Auction record of $2.2 million.īuy Canvas Art Prints b. Critics are mixed on opinions about her work, but she certainly has a presence in the market.
Cecily Brown's works are filled often with erotic positions and fragmented bodies. She creates vivid, atmospheric depictions and is compared to Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon. 1969 in London Famous ContemporaryĬecily Brown is a London-born painter. Although Takeshi’s art is highly sought after, it is also possible to find entry-level art starting at $30 000. His record painting sold in auction for $4.2 million was The Castle of Tin Tin (1998). Murakami has a vast contemporary painting collection with prices averaging at $1.8 million per work. In 2002, Takashi Murakami received an invitation from Marc Jacobs, designer of Louis Vuitton, to collaborate on a 13-year project of infusing Murakami’s style with the LV signature brand. Pushing past the reviews, Takashi Murakami is becoming an iconic contributor to contemporary art with his coined style called “super flat” which is a theory based on the flat, 2-D imagery of Japanese style of manga and anime. His critics claim he is a “sell-out” by taking a business approach to art and producing a consumable style of Japanese pop-culture. Takashi Murakami has been celebrated and criticized for his culturally infused contemporary art style. The artist has been exhibited internationally and is represented by a number of galleries. Liu Xiaodong creates extremely realistic subjects using colors to strengthen emotion. His contemporary painting draws inspiration from scenes of friends and family however, his work often depicts social problems he highlights through his pieces in places such as Israel-Palestine, Tibet, and rural China.
Xiaodong is a figurative painter, working on subjects of common people, sex workers and the homeless. He stays in Beijing and is currently a professor. Liu went to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his BA and MFA. He left Jincheng to pursue art in Beijing. Liu Xiaodong is one of China’s most recognized artists. The art lover's choice! b.1963 in China Famous Contemporary If you want to vote please see the Support Your Artist icon on the right of your screen. Voting aggregates next to the star rating. Here you’ll find a voted and curated list of most famous artists today.Įach voter had multiple options to vote. The art is/was produced in the second half of the 20th century or the 21st century.Īs time continues to pass by, who are the famous painters today that will leave behind a lasting legacy we will look back on tomorrow.
Contemporary art captures the world of today and sets a lasting impression which influences years to come.
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