Top 10 Figurative Painters Today

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Table of contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - A Reasoned Selection
02:18 - 10. Kehinde Wiley
03:10 - 9. Mickalene Thomas
03:52 - 8. Kerry James Marshall
04:34 - 7. Nicole Eisenman
05:16 - 6. Marlene Dumas
05:59 - 5. Miriam Cahn
06:46 - 4. Leiko Ikemura
07:40 - 3. Anselm Kiefer
08:33 - 2. Alex Katz
09:22 - 1. Georg Baselitz
10:14 - Epilogue
10:49 - Outro

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@user-hi3bw6yj9v 21 день назад

We are in trouble.

@JamesGoodchapArt 15 дней назад

lol 😂

@carlkligerman1981 8 дней назад

It’s not so much that we are in trouble as that the Art Establishment is entirely bereft of any new ideas and so peddles this constant stream of politically correct, sub par, ‘privileged’ examples, and that the Big Money, who have no real taste of their own, buy into this, the Sham of the New. And don’t get me wrong, the ‘revisionist’ postmodernist moment was a necessary reaction in Art History, I just think it’s become hackneyed and produced a critical apparatus that lacks imagination or any means with which to look beyond its own collective navel. There’s PLENTY of beautiful, important art still being made, only it, ironically, is now thrust outside to the margins.

@EyeLean5280 8 дней назад

It'll be okay.

@armstronghawkins9183 7 дней назад

If you can't get behind Nicole Eisenman and Kerry James Marshall...well....consider the source of the problem. : )

@adamjnotthecongressmanschi7026 10 часов назад

@@armstronghawkins9183 for real.

@ivanoffbore6819 23 дня назад

TOP 10 by Boré Ivanoff: 10. Cecily Brown 9.Jenny Saville 8. Adrian Ghenie 7. Néo Rauch 6. Lisa Yuksavage 5. Jonas Burgert 4. Mircea Suciu 3. Vincent Desiderio 2. Justin Mortimer 1. Phil Hale

@YTuseraL2694 23 дня назад

He may not be as famous within the contemporary artworld, having made his biggest mark in art teaching, but Steve Huston, on purely tevhnical level, deserves to be on the very summit.

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

A great top 10, with all artists that I personally adore! Great taste, Boré-I did not expect anything else from you ;-)

@Ikennaobinkaart 21 день назад

Vincent Desiderio ❤

@chooselife1509 19 дней назад

Nice list, especially Justin Mortimer. He flies under the radar for some reason....but, no Daniel Richter?

@ivanoffbore6819 19 дней назад

@@chooselife1509yeah, I was thinking as well of Daniel Richter, and some more... But then I have to make a TOP 20 list. Anyway, he's one of my favorites too

@dansmith4984 23 дня назад

Jenny Saville says hi lol

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Major absentee indeed! Even in the top 20, we did not encounter Jenny Saville. Thank you for tuning in!

@withashenafemestika9492 23 дня назад

Jenny Saville is one of the most important figurative painters in my opinion, ranking alongside Lucian Freud without a doubt.

@dansmith4984 23 дня назад

@@withashenafemestika9492 her representations of real bodies is unique

@gibberishboner8776 19 дней назад

Yep. I think his list is a bit stupid and heavily relied on internet algorithm. Saying Jenny did not even got into top 20 is just hilarious.. I mean what do you get from these social media "art gurus" 🤣 I just miss legit art critiques

@martinlakeuk 21 день назад

Wow! The revolutionary practise of painting his compositions upside down! What a time to be alive!

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

😂

@ANIGIOLETTO 23 дня назад

I would say Odd Nerdrum could be added.

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Absolutely! Thank you for tuning in

@YTuseraL2694 23 дня назад

Yeah, I am obliged to agree with comments here so far, apart from Baselitz, Kiefer and maaaybe Wiley, I'm simply... Utterly unimpressed by these people's works. The likes of Odd Nerdrum, Sebastian Schrader, Jenny Saville, Glenn Brown, Guillermo Lorca Garcia, Jerome Witkin and many more blow these people out of the water in my opinion.

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Personally, I prefer the your artists you mention over half of the top 10. So I guess we are on the same page here. Thank you for tuning in and for sharing your thoughts 🙏

@carlkligerman1981 8 дней назад

Hear hear!

@gaorezaga5099 22 дня назад

Chris Mars, Neo Rauch and Jonas Burgert. No hype just pure talent and vision.

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Absolutely! Thank you for tuning in

@RapidBlindfolds 23 дня назад

Does anyone actually like the artists in this top 10 list 😂 so interesting to see the gulf in popular opinion and the actual art world

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Yes, it is indeed a very interesting topic, especially the difference in taste between people active in the art world and the random beholder-a topic we briefly discuss in our video on the subjectivity of art and gatekeeping in the art world. Have a great day and thank you for tuning in!

@damianchavez7218 18 дней назад

The avant garde became the establishment.

@liv0003 15 дней назад

I do, not all of them obiously are my favorite but many are

@EyeLean5280 8 дней назад

I like them.

@armstronghawkins9183 4 дня назад

Sure! I love KJMarshall and Eisenman. And I'd give a solid thumbs-up to Thomas, Baselitz, and Katz. The only choice I'm kinda not in sync with is Kiefer...but that's mostly b/c I don't know I'd put him on a list of pivitol FIGURATIVE painters. I'd put him on a list of landscape or expressionist painters. I don't associate him with the human figure which, personally, I put more emphasis on for the label 'figurative'.

@sebber7992 23 дня назад

Not a lot of variation here. Artists 8 to 10 are black men painting the same subject with identical style. Artists 7 to 5 is the same as the previous three, but "white woman" variation. Artists 4 and 1 could be fused together, nobody would notice. Artist 2 is an extra naive version of the three white women. The only one with a distinct vision is Anselm Keifer.

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

One can indeed see some clear tendencies or sub-niches/sub-movements that have done well in contemporary figurative painting-which makes perfect sense. Yet, they have their personal merit and differences besides the similarities. As did Monet & Renoir, Braque & Picasso, Noland & Stella, et cetera. Thank you for tuning in and for sharing your thoughts!

@aubnuwelja 22 дня назад

Thanks

@liv0003 15 дней назад

just your personal taste nothing more than that which I completely disagree with

@luizhenriquedarochaazevedo7786 23 дня назад

Dear Julien, thank you for another CAI video; this time highlighting contemporary figurative painters which, if I may say so, includes even you. It's good to see an analysis of these selected painters. They always present us with new horizons, new approaches that confront what I'm used to and thus shake up this emblematic area.

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Thank you very much, as always. Have a great day!

@antondavidovic3996 18 дней назад

George Condo would be an honorable mention

@dollycatlin5077 23 дня назад

Love love this video. I would like to see top 20 of each genre separately. Thank you

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Hi Dolly, thank you! We in fact have been covering various genres and artistic disciplines over the years with these top lists. Feel free to discover them all on our channel!

@budyn1412 23 дня назад

The trend is obviously "if you can't make it good, make it big". And even the good ones have to go monumental to keep up.

@adrianobastardi 23 дня назад

Size does not determine how interesting.

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Yet, they all started small! Today, they create for museum collections, hence the monumental formats. But they got there by creating smaller works first. The monumental sizes are not the cause but the effect of their success.

@danw5760 23 дня назад

And failing that, try making it big AND upside down

@batzeth 22 дня назад

@@danw5760 as if It was not a challenge, a meaningful search

@alexandrayakovleva1438 21 день назад

Also you have to tick the box of color, gender and race. Bias business.

@whydidyoupaintme2196 13 дней назад

>> Tal R // Daniel Richter // Marek Eibert // Britta Wagner // Allison Schulnik // Kristina Schuldt // Kim Dorland // Iulian Bisericaru // Christoph Ruckhäberle // Tilo Baumgärtel

@danw5760 23 дня назад

They are all along way behind the likes of freud and bacon

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Two Greats indeed!

@AI-xs4fp 22 дня назад

May we have a top 10 Ultra-Contemporary list so it can include a more modern selection like Fratino, Toor, Saville, Ghenie, etc?

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Great idea! We already have an ultra contemporary version of painting in general, but perhaps we'll have to tackle abstraction and figuration seperately as well.

@shakeysam 23 дня назад

Neo Rauch

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Agreed!

@EnriqueCollar 15 дней назад

Your work is always very professional. But it happens to me that every time I look at your selections again, I don't find any surprises. All the artists you choose are the same as always, from the same top galleries as always. I don't see any risk. There is more music in this world, in other languages and cultures. Thanks.

@JG-ly2ij 23 дня назад

Dear CAI, I really don’t know how you put Anselm Kiefer in, he does two figures and you only showed one. I don’t understand why you left William Kentridge out. I see him as primarily figurative, his figurative work informs mine deeply, someone here said hello Jenny Saville ;)

@JG-ly2ij 23 дня назад

*few figures, mostly monumental landscapes

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

There is, of course, a difference between figurative painting and figure painting. Anselm Kiefer is not a figure painter, but he is a figurative painter, as he predominantly depicts interiors, landscapes, buildings, still lifes, et cetera. Concerning William Kentridge-this is something I addressed at the start of the video-as he predominantly works with ink on paper or in printmaking, we cannot really classify him as a painter. For Jenny Saville, she is indeed a major absentee and was not even in the top 20 to my surprise. Thank you for watching!

@albatrozdeashgabat5427 23 дня назад

Thanks for your content is always interesting, please consider talking about naive paintings and artists nowadays✌🏻

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Great suggestion, thank you! 🙏🙌

@mattj8679 23 дня назад

This is such an under-represented topic on youtube. I would like a more personal version of this list, seeing as evaluating artists always has to be such a subjective thing. the outro section was also the more exciting segment to watch, because it was more personal.

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Thank you for watching and for your take on the selection process. Sometimes, I would indeed prefer to share my personal vision instead of being merely the messenger-especially when I disagree with the results of the survey. Thank you for the most useful feedback and have a great day!

@KOSHERBLAK 14 дней назад

Art is amazingly important ✨️

@lauriewarner4848 18 дней назад

Great post. Interesting list, well thought out and researched. I am going to be simple here. Thank you for the share.

@hblavaski 23 дня назад

We need a Top 10 of sculpture, figurative or not 🗻 there are really interesting and critical sculpture artists trying to bend limits of form, space and matter in very beautiful ways.

@mbahbytekobo 23 дня назад

You can ask for something with more respect and consideration. This is a work of its own and you consume it freely. So please, be more subtle.

@hblavaski 23 дня назад

@@mbahbytekobo I don't believe I was unrespectful, only maybe informal 🤷‍♀️ I'm sure dear CAI did not feel offended, demanded or anything. People these days love fighting on the internet for exactly nothing. It's your ego, not mine, not anyone else's. Sorry! Have a good day 🙂

@hblavaski 23 дня назад

Also, for anyone on the sculpture line, I saw he already has a great compilation on that 👍🏼🔥 Thanks, CAI! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_0fyEtpNaRI.htmlsi=61tw8UyJ7ll6-0m7

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Hi there, thank you for tuning in. Happy to see that you have found our top list of sculpture. Perhaps we can make a new one focusing on figurative sculpture in the foreseeable future. I'll do my very best! Have a great day!

@hblavaski 22 дня назад

@@contemporaryartissuethanks so much for considering it! I really appreciate it! You're work is priceless 🙏🏼🔥

@patriciawilliams7419 23 дня назад

Peter Doig should be in top ten

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

I agree!

@Vampfire511 16 дней назад

How is Anselm Kiefer a figurative artist??? His paintings have figures as elements, but it’s not about figures. Like if landscape is used as the background of a portrait, you won’t call that painter a landscape painter.

@liv0003 15 дней назад

Yes , definitely he's a figurative painter!

@martinlakeuk 21 день назад

How can anyone do a top 10 figurative painters list without including Odd Nerdrum? Absolutely insane!

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

A true painter's painter indeed!

@williamericson5208 2 дня назад

Nadia Waheed should definitely be in the top 10, holy cow

@ignaciohernandez8901 15 часов назад

Although he was mentioned at the end, I think Michaël Borremans is one of the best today.

@TheNopeDude 13 дней назад

Excuse me John Curran, Neo Rauch, Bo Bartlett, Michael Borremans??

@Nohandlefool 14 дней назад

Best art= blue chip gallery, got it

@tessabergamot6961 17 дней назад

I will do a search but might you have already done a video on the most prominent styles within the contemporary world that current artists are leaning towards? Thanks for all this content Julien. Appreciate your responses too.

@kirildushev824 23 дня назад

Jenny Saville??????? Salman Toor??????😵

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Major absentees indeed!

@dollycatlin5077 23 дня назад

Definitely think size matterS. And the trend is big big big.

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

The monumental sizes are not the cause but the effect of their success. They started creating normal-sized work for private collectors and are today creating monumental works for the big museum institutions-hence the monumental sizes.

@tueferbenz7492 19 дней назад

Made me think about who my favorites are. Peter Booth, Jenny Saville, Julie Heffernan.

@AmigoBrazucaq 17 дней назад

There are some stupid uses of algorithms out there but this takes the cake.

@pgmisha 21 день назад

"a reasoned ontology" using an algorithm? You're killing me.😅

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Otherwise, it would be a personal or subjective anthology ;-) Nevertheless, thank you for tuning in!

@ajtaylor6505 23 дня назад

i get that you will not get everyone's favourite in but I never thought of Anselm Keifer as a figurative painter. I'll have to go back and listen to the set up. Someone like Eric Fischl now thats a figurative artist to me. I like your channel.

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Eric Fischl was part of the top 20, in fact, and I can definitely see why one would argue Kiefer not being 'figurative' enough. Personally, considering his subjects, I do see Kiefer as figurative enough for this list, but it is definitely debatable. Thank you for tuning in, and I wish you a great day!

@MoneyBook-x6s 10 дней назад

This is a grat video, thank you

@vandolmatzis8146 23 дня назад

your correct pronuctiation

@1deplatt 23 дня назад

Maybe Jenny Saville?

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Absolutely, a major absentee!

@tueferbenz7492 19 дней назад

One of the best living artists for sure.

@DomTradr 20 дней назад

Love the videos. Video suggestion / a question not related to the video. How many artworks would you say a gallery represented artist makes a year. You mentioned the galleries like to have supply and demand in their favor. How does that impact the artists career output with those constraints?

@contemporaryartissue 20 дней назад

In most cases, the amount of artworks will be determined by the demand and also the amount of shows the artist has-with and beyond their gallery/ies. I would say an advanced emerging artist produces between 25 to 50 works, and a mid-career or established artist produces between 50-150 works depending on the demand, exhibitions, and the nature of the work (artistic discipline, production process, etc.)

@janetatuniquerawfoods2361 23 дня назад

Hi Julién and Perrier. Happy Monday. I appreciate the discernments you make around the criteria… with the additional artists you mention it provides human dimension to the list. Are you willing to discern figurative please? If a painting has… say … a color field abstract… however within that field there is a recognizable little bottle painted… does that make it to this category ? Or figurative is referring to human form only? That distinction can help me know who I like… and sound Art World intelligent😇✨…😹 Thank you for all the insights your time and work. Sincerely, Janet

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Hi Janet, I hope you are doing well. Figure painting requires the human form only. Figurative painting refers to painting that is representational or derived from the world around us; it can be cartoonish, expressive, or include abstract elements, such as a color field plane. The pleasure is all mine, as always, and I wish you a great Monday too!

@janetatuniquerawfoods2361 22 дня назад

⁠@@contemporaryartissueSpectacular delineation in a tiny comments space… thank you again…Amy Steel has interesting figure pieces I find… I agree with you about the last artist you personally admire.☀️

@janetatuniquerawfoods2361 22 дня назад

And… I am glad to have encountered CAI and your own works … Salut…

@joemug4079 8 дней назад

Does Jenny Saville fit in that category?

@lelandleichman 23 дня назад

frank auerbach

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Great artist indeed!

@carlkligerman1981 8 дней назад

Criminal omission

@vinny8749 3 дня назад

Anatomy or modeling not once

@apanhadordearrepios 23 дня назад

also dana schutz

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Yes!!

@TheKobytan 21 день назад

What painting is on the thumbnail?

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

The thumbnail is a detail of a painting by Miriam Cahn; Miriam Cahn, meredith grey (gestern im TV gesehen), 2015. Oil on wood, 26 x 28 cm. Thank you for tuning in!

@penelopekillingbeck8767 21 день назад

I’d nominate Kaye Donachie

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Absolutely! Great painter, love her work

@GiantArtProductions 15 дней назад

This list is so-so but I don’t know why people are dumping on Justin Mortimer, he’s basically a visionary given how much his subject matter relates so much to the events of the previous 3 years during clownvid. Wiley is a hack though.

@hmmmmidk 19 дней назад

thank you

@ediesedgwick4462 23 дня назад

The only artist here whom I consider to be properly figurative is Kehinde Wiley, because I don't see how a work can be figurative if it isn't also realist. The rest of the artists are showing us abstractions, either deliberately or through a lack of technical skill. And no abstraction can be figurative, because no figure looks like an abstraction.

@adrianobastardi 23 дня назад

Figurative does not have to be realistic to be figurative, it can be abstract or expressionistic or any other form.

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

I believe realist, naturalistic, or representational painting is a more accurate description for the art you refer to. Mimesis is replicating reality, figurative can be derived from reality. And I personally definitely prefer the latter. Thank you for tuning in and for sharing your thoughts! Have a great day

@ediesedgwick4462 23 дня назад

@@contemporaryartissue Yes, I should've said representational, rather than realist. Thanx for the suggestion! 👍🏻

@JG-ly2ij 23 дня назад

Every artwork is an abstraction of the world we see around us, even photographs. Abstraction is simply a reduction in information. All of the artists here are representing the figure, I don’t really know where you’re coming from.

@ITcanB 22 дня назад

I'm curious how you feel about the fact that he uses a projector and a photograph, tracing the image onto the canvas. Would you consider that cheating? ❤

@CharlesBrowning 23 дня назад

I'm unclear how Kiefer qualifies as figurative

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Debatable indeed-yet, considering his subjects (landscapes, interiors, still lifes, etc.) classifying him as too abstract is also inaccurate. Thank you for tuning in!

@armstronghawkins9183 7 дней назад

I thought Hockney was still painting. I know he was doing a lot of digital work/drawings 2010-2016? ...but I thought he was still painting post pandemic.

@loribeardsley878 21 день назад

I love many of those choices and found some new ones, but surely you forgot Chantel Joffe

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Love Chantal Joffe! Sadly, we did not forget her but she was simply not ranking in the top 10 (and even 20) results of this survey. Thank you for tuning in!

@ZadenZane 22 дня назад

Tracey Emin as a figurative painter? I don't think so. I don't think I've ever seen a traditional figurative painting by her. I'm counting the mainstream of modern añd contemporary art as "traditional" here. Yes she does scribbly black gouache pieces on giant canvases, but most of the backgrounds appear to be raw white gesso. To me that's drawing with a paintbrush and not a "true" painting at all!

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Her latest works are acrylic on canvas, depicting figures in a-indeed-drawing-like visual language. But the work fits the definition of painting more than it does drawing. The artistic discipline is determined by the material attributes, not the visual language.

@susand484 19 дней назад

@@contemporaryartissue Tracy A And it's impossible to "draw" that big, which speaks to the skill of using a paintbrush that way. The "line" in a small drawing is masterful or not. Done at that scale on a large canvas, spontaneously, is unbelievable.( I don't believe she is using an eight foot long paintbrush...). It's as if she is the brush and has eyes observing from 10ft back, with her paintbrush making the figure(s) with those long expressive continuous beautiful lines.

@user-ji4rc2ou1l 2 дня назад

The dog ❤

@johnpresnell 23 дня назад

I realize you used some kind of system to come up with your list. Okay, fair enough, and I like a lot of the artists here, although I would’ve preferred to see Markus Lüpertz, Neo Rauch, Henry Taylor, and Peter Doig here.

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

A great recital of artists; thank you for your contribution here in the comments. Have a great day and thank you for watching!

@pejamane 22 дня назад

Lovely video, thank you for sharing!

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Thank you so much for your kind words, the pleasure is all mine!

@markharmon3112 10 дней назад

Robbie Espinoza and Nimfa Torres

@garjog1 13 дней назад

Julien we would like to hear your top ten.

@spacepunk_nappy 23 дня назад

Dawn Okoro from Texas and Patrick Dougher from Brooklyn

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Thank you for the suggestions!

@karlrudziak5124 21 день назад

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jenny Saville???

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Two major absentees indeed!

@user-re9mp2nh5e 23 дня назад

Looking at this list I can see why figurative painting doesn't really interest me. Too much personal polemic that is exclusive rather than inclusive, inviting you into a conversation. I find I just don't care about most of them. I would stand Kiefer apart as to me he isn't a traditional painter, he is interesting in the way he plays with objects and materials, incorporating them into his images. His subject matter is also one you can get to grips with, it might be about history, collective memory and post war German identity but his application raises his work way above simple polemic and into the universal. Though he does have a tendency to gigantism and personal monument building but he can be forgiven, he has produced many profound works.

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Thank you for watching and for sharing your honest and interesting thoughts here. Kiefer is indeed somewhat different and perhaps the most experimental painter from this list. I agree that his work has something universal and syncretic, considering how ingeniously he weaves together different philosophies, spiritual aspects, and belief systems in his oeuvre. Postmodernity is the era of the end of the great stories-or, as Lyotard states, la fin des grand récits-yet Kiefer is able to put it all together masterly. Master!

@iamahugeapple День назад

Cecily Brown!

@vigensayadyan3681 23 дня назад

I am also a contemporary figurative artist, but I will never be so famous, since I live in a small country (Armenia) and it is impossible to get into such a large art market :)

@danw5760 23 дня назад

Internet

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

It is possible, regardless of where you are based! Feel free to watch our video 'No Art City, No Problem' for more information.

@timeenoughforart 12 дней назад

What no Thomas Kinkade? Apparently nobody asked my sister in law. Her house is covered with him.

@steveb2145 15 дней назад

Anselm Kiefer - figurative painter . really? .. ( ps.. just dont tell him you included him in a list with Kehinde Wiley !!!!

@nobelkoty4051 12 дней назад

Why not? It's about art and not about prestige.

@frankblangeard8865 4 дня назад

Lots of geezers in this list. I identify!

@_mixedsignals 23 дня назад

I worry that A.I. will encroach on figurative painting more than any other artistic practice, and will eat into painters who focus on the figure and dilute the value of their work.

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

In the end, AI will just become part of the painters' toolbox, similar to photography, the projector, photoshop, et cetera. AI needs human input, and a painting requires the human touch of a painter. But evidently, you're right. This will be most apparent or noticeable in figurative painting.

@dv-artistdavidv.828 12 дней назад

Its time for a change!

@RoccoKurvita-iu9no 23 дня назад

what about Lubomir Typlt ?

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

A great painter and suggestion, thank you!

@JamesGoodchapArt 15 дней назад

Love this content, thank you :) Not a fan of the “important” word in art, too subjective, so exclusive, and who gets to say? I’m important;)

@chrisduffyart 14 дней назад

No David Sallie?

@CalculusTradeEA 8 дней назад

Also Jonathan Menashy

@CharlesPompilius 23 дня назад

Same stuff

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Yes, as I mention at the end of the video, we very much encounter the usual suspects! Thank you for watching

@selwynr 22 дня назад

The first two seem tokenistic - Wiley is just terrible. It's kitsch with a capital K. The other artist's work has no pictorial energy or intensity. Marshall is a great artist, period. Eisenman a solid choice, an eclectic, wild and very gifted artist indeed. Dumas perhaps a little overrated. Some of her work is slapdash and wobbly but at it's best it is confronting and powerful, nightmarish. Cahn is authentic, playing off a certain technical naivety with an intense and moving visionary and poetic sensibility, Leiko Ikemura's work is poetic, charming and lyrical, perhaps in a minor mode, but almost impossible to dislike. Keifer is Keifer, what to say except a permanent acheivement, Katz is highly accomplished and his work is here to stay, yet it is like Cole Porter, not remotely profound but breezily enjoyable, if a little on the 'white priviledged' side, if you dig my meaning, Baselitz is long past his best work. He churns out respectable international art now for 'discerning' corporate buyers, but he was once a profound and disurbingly dark visionary, now a whimper compared to the visceral power of his early nightmares - he's become a kind of corporate Neo-Expressionist Warhol that discerning vulture capitalists fawn over - ahem, sorry, I mean 'art collectors'. His earlier self would roll in the grave. No Rauch, no Dana Schutz (much better artist than several here), no Peter Booth (Australia's greatest living artist and dark, comically grotesque visionary, and a shoo-in for one of the great living masters), no Daniel Richter (a techno-visionary, spectral master at his best), no Peter Saul (incomparably better than half the artists here, perhaps teh greatest living satirical painter and an absolute living classic, ferocious comic glee), no Doig (uneven but very good at times, esp. when he goes more spectral), no William Kentridge (why?!!!!), No Liu Xiodong (perhaps the greatest living figurative artist in the traditional sense - today's Manet - a humanist genius, no doubt of it and oh so much better than all but 2 or 3 of these)? Oh well, these things are subjective... to a degree, haha. Still, I do love your videos, even when, or maybe especially when, I disagree with them :-)

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Thank you for sharing your most interesting thoughts. I must say I (almost) completely agree with your assessment of this top 10. Kentridge is not included due to primarily working on paper or in printmaking. I would add to my personal top 10 Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans, Neo Rauch, Dana Schutz, Lisa Yuskavage, and perhaps even Louise Giovanelli, whom I have been enjoying a lot lately. Thank you for following the channel and feel free to disagree with our list at any time-I even encourage it ;-) Have a great day!

@liv0003 15 дней назад

Your entire list is purely subjective

@carlkligerman1981 8 дней назад

Jennifer Packer is another omission that mystifies me. And she can actually, you know, paint!

@garyspencer6854 4 дня назад

Kitsch is practically a dead term. It harks back to a time when Modernity was pure and Greenberg was God. Trying to use modernist notions of kitsch as a way of dismissing contemporary strategies in painting doesn't work any more. Greenberg would have easily called Liu Xiodong kitsch too. It's worth remembering that Wiley - and his huge success- is very much a reflection of a todays changing world and changing values - so he's important if you think art mirrors life and society.

@saradosiggi5287 21 день назад

What about Neo Rauch?

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Yes, a major absentee as I point out in the epilogue of the video. Thank you for tuning in!

@djiango_artist 10 дней назад

you forgot Djiango artist :)

@tonycairns6728 22 дня назад

Not much of a list.

@verydrunkcat 19 дней назад

Kehinde Wiley should have also been disqualified due to not actually painting his paintings and being more of an art director. Otherwise we'd have to you know, include every art director out there. Edit: Having said that, I realize that this is the future of art. A gregarious personality with assistants who generate AI for them to look through and then handing it over for some poor soul in China to paint.

@jojojo3521 19 дней назад

Either black individuals or women, or both... if you want to add some white men, make sure they are old and well established. Young white male artists need not apply - the only exceptions might come from the rainbow circle.

@evgenygrouzdev7575 23 дня назад

Bard!

@YTuseraL2694 23 дня назад

Francois Bard? Oh yeah, he's excellent.

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Great painter indeed!

@devonglynn2133 17 дней назад

LOUIS CARREON!!!!!

@johnnyFishborn 4 дня назад

No italians, no french, no Latin American. 6 of this list are US based. lol

@classislit 21 день назад

👍🏾🎨

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

🙌🙏

@damianchavez7218 18 дней назад

This is just anti-classical figurative painting. The avant garde is the establishment. Imagine being trully inclusive & exhibiting art outside the establishment bubble.

@toecutter8002 21 день назад

I agree it's boring and most of these I wouldn't call them painters they're copying past painters art style and there's nothing original. Completely erase your top ten and start over

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Not my top ten... Feel free to share yours!

@verydrunkcat 19 дней назад

Feel free to write a list of "original" painters

@apanhadordearrepios 23 дня назад

peter doig, mamma andersson

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Terrific painters worthy of being in the top 10 or 20 for sure!

@FedericoRosaSuazo 20 дней назад

Logical fallacies abound. So this is supposed to be an impartial, objective art list. It's not a science experiment it has a bias.

@contemporaryartissue 20 дней назад

Feel free to explain this bias. I am most curious. Thank you for tuning in

@williamwynne1112 25 дней назад

Anticipation not!

@robertwalker2052 23 дня назад

No Francis Bacon? No Jorg Madlender?

@contemporaryartissue 22 дня назад

Jorg Mandlender did not make the cut, and unfortunately, Francis Bacon is no longer with us and could not have been included in this list. Thank you for tuning in!

@jetsonjoe 23 дня назад

wow...just continue to show the old dogs when there are so many newer painters doing amazing work..yet over and over you promote the has beens...time to visit a few galleries to see some of the amazing art going on in this category. Seriously

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

I have showcased younger artists with our lists on emerging artists or ultra-contemporary artists (born after 1975). However, I cannot exclude artists simply because they are old. If the data say they are the most exhibited and collected artists, than who am I to say they are not. So feel free to consult our other top lists focused on new emerging or young talent (where they will ironically blame me of including only young people in the comment section). Nevertheless, thank you for watching and have a great day!

@janhorvath1417 23 дня назад

What about Daniel Richter?

@contemporaryartissue 23 дня назад

Sadly, Daniel Richter didn’t make the top 10 or top 20. A great painter nevertheless!

@janhorvath1417 23 дня назад

@@contemporaryartissue wow. What are the Basic parameters to reach top 10? Money prices are the relevant worth? On my opinion Richters picture "Punctum" is the best of ever painted and will be. For every relevant reasons. Politics, art, social....etc

@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace 6 дней назад

Call me what you will but....I only like the work of the Japanese woman.

@christopherjohnson2892 10 дней назад

Meaningless verbiage dogged by dubious choices.

@pejamane 22 дня назад

a lot of critics in the comments lol, y'all can always make your own channels to promote the works you wanna see :)

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

Amen!

@jderrida69 21 день назад

Alex Katz, but NOT Henry Taylor ?

@contemporaryartissue 21 день назад

I am afraid not, but such a great painter indeed!

@jderrida69 20 дней назад

@@contemporaryartissue Fun fact Henry Taylor, Mark Bradford and I were classmates :-)

@contemporaryartissue 20 дней назад

@@jderrida69 Wow! Awesome!

@bsvirsky 21 день назад

Most of those painters are simply bad.... they impose on the viewer some distastefull meaningless graphics in too loud voice, as if they have to shout loud on us to convince us in their importance. Their souls seems to be pitifully ill and their world is in spiritual disaster

@sherion80 17 дней назад

If their paintings reflect their inner world, which they probably do, I'm also very sorry for them.

@fellabay 12 дней назад

I think you need to focus a bit more on your own work........ you could be a good painter if you spent less time on youtube talking about other painters and more time with a brush in your hand. Good luck.