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Popular Modern Artists of this Century

The Twentieth Century had produced many renowned artists who include Painters, Musicians,Instrumentalists, Rock Artists and Sculptors. It has been a decade since the new century was born andmany magnanimous and versatile artists have already started to conquer the mindsets of masses. Theseinclude artists from US, Europe, Russia, India and Australia.

Beginning with Sculptors, the name of Andy Goldsworthy is significant. He was born in 1956 in Cheshire,UK and is a Photographer and Environmentalist too. He is accredited with producing site-specificsculptures and land arts situated in natural and urban settings. David Hockney, born in 1937 is another

leading British artist and has been voted the UKs most popular living artist.

Another name to worth mentioning is Lucian Freud who was born in1922and is possibly Britain's greatestliving painter and portrait artist. All his works are protected by international copyright laws until at least 70years after his death.

Antony Gormley is another sculptor who has explored the human image using his own body as a subject,tool and material over the course of the last 25 years. His work has been exhibited extensively both in theUK (such as the Whitechapel, Tate Modern, Hayward Galleries, British Museum and White Cube) andabroad. Gormley was awarded with the Turner Prize in 1994, South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 andBernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007.

In US, the name of Chuck Thomas Close as a modern painter tops the list. He is known for his selfportraits and portrait paintings. Other popular artists from US of international repute are Kiki Smith, Stacy

Brown, Irvin Bomb, Kimberly Conrad, Rebecca Darlington, Marcus Jansen, Ray Yano, M.E.Whitehill,Karen Jacobs, Iwaski and Michael Khandros.

Indian contemporary art in the break of 21st century is as varied as it had never been before. From theelitist business houses and royal families, it has now entered the drawing room of the middle class buyersand from domestic market, it is now traveling offshore to fetch immense; often astronomical prices. Someof world famous artists of this century are M.F. Hussein, Jatin Das, Satish Gujral, Ghulam MohammedSheikh and A Ramachandran. Ilya Kaverznev, Ekaterina Mor, Nataliya Ivanovna Duritskaya, NikolayTretyakov.

Russia too continues its legacy of artistic richness. Prominent and World famous Russian artists includeAlyona Dergiliova,

Marc Riboud, Georges Rousse, Pierre Toutan Dorbec, Bettine Rheims, Ange Leccia and Sophie Calleare World famous French photographers who have been successfully able to transform photography intoan art. Popular French artists of 21st century include many heavy weights like Patrick Mimran, Y Liver,Jeylina Ever, Andre Vanden Busshe who is both a sculptor and a Painter. Dominique Sanson (whocurrently lives in Spain), Jacques Pellegrin and Zaven Pare, Gilles Rouaut, grandson of the famousFrench artist, George Rouaut are the promising artists from France. From Italy, the land of Picasso, manynew artists have come up like Carlo Maria Mariani, Francesco Clemente and Sandro Chia. PopularGerman artists include Markus Lupertz, Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer.

The list is endless and will be added on to as the years go by.

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