BANKSY

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

Banksy's work was made up of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s." Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and Jef Aerosol who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours (France), and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However Banksy claims that he based his work on that of 3D from Massive Attack, stating, "No, I copied 3D from Massive Attack. He can actually draw.

Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself; however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.

 

Banksy began as a freehand graffiti artist in 1990–1994 as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ), with Kato and Tes. He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene with Nick Walker, Inkie and 3D. From the start he used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces, too. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a piece. He claims he changed to stencilling while he was hiding from the police under a rubbish lorry, when he noticed the stencilled serial number and by employing this technique, he soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London.

Talk about his technique, :
Banksy use whatever for drawing. Efficiency is the key.

Stencils are traditionally hand drawn or printed onto sheets of acetate or card, before being cut out by hand. Because of the secretive nature of Banksy's work and identity, it is uncertain what techniques he uses to generate the images in his stencils, though it is assumed he uses computers for some images due to the photocopy nature of much of his work.

He mentions in his book, Wall and Piece, that as he was starting to do graffiti, he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in one sitting. So he devised a series of intricate stencils to minimise time and overlapping of the colour.

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There is dispute in the street art world over the legitimacy of stencils, with many artists criticising their use as "cheating."

Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun was born  in1963, Handan, Hebei province, China.  an artist based in Beijing. He was born into a wealthy family with a high social status. In the 1990s, there was a cultural movement in China referred to as Cynical Realism of which Fang Lijun was a member. Living in China during this critical time shaped his worldview in terms of his views on art, human values and morality.

Fang Lijun attended Children Cultural Place school.During his time at school, he met LiXianting (who would later be a famous critic) and was introduced to watercolors, oil paints and ink.

Fang Lijun decided to leave high school to pursue his artistic dream. He made a decision to go to Hebei Light Industry Technology school to study ceramics for three years. However, Fang Lijun did not want to stop his studies there. Instead of having an intellectual job in ceramics department, he prepared himself to take the entrance exam to enroll at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He was fascinated by the medium of oil painting and chose it for his final graduation project.


At the beginning of 1992, Fang Lijun moved to Yuanmingyuan village in north-west Beijing.
Due to the economy and other difficult cultural issues, painters wanted to create a utopia where they could freely paint and express themselves. That was when Yuanmingyuan village drew artists' attention. At the time, painters like Fang Lijun had to face many obstacles and challenges, particular financial issues. In order to be able to paint, they needed to have funds to buy materials. However, there was no certainty that they would receive any funding, so it was extremely difficult for painters to be able to follow what they love. Fang Lijun and other artists like him had paint for a living due to the economic pressure.

Fang Lijun made a large number of works featuring the subject "bald heads".Under the influence of his family and friends, his art expresses the freedom, the integrity in two different settings: traditional and modern era, and the will of making a change.He explained in an interview that he wished to send a message about the lives of painters through bald-head figures. The bald headed traditional Chinese men are viewed as dumb or stupid. Through these figures, he is sending a message about morality and how people define what is normal based on physical appearance, rather than internal moral character. Fang Lijun values the individual stories of each person. He is asking the society to look at painters as normal people, as people who are making a change, rather than as eccentric outcasts.

In his paintings, he also uses elements of water and flower a lot. Water plays a big role in Fang Lijun's paintings. On an interview, he explained that water is helping him convey a message about his feeling and his voice about the truth and what is going in Chinese society.

His famous work with water is the guy being drowned in the water. Part of the reason for this paining relates to his childhood experience when he was almost drown. The second and most important part relation about this painting is he is expressing his feelings about the Chinese society. When the guy is drown in the water, that guy is representing for painter like Fang Lijun.He feels like he does not have a voice, that he is powerless in this societal structure and that he cannot even make his own decision or speak the right truth. Also, his hope is to freely go and move in the water metaphorically. He is hoping to be able to speak for himself, for other artists and to inspire everybody.

Yue Minjun

Yue Minjun was born in 1962 in the town of Daqing in Heilongjiang, China. Yue's family had been working on oil fields and when Yue was six, his family moved from Daqing Oil Field to Jianghan Oil Field. When he was ten, his family moved to Beijing. He eventually went to Tianjin after high school and moved to Hebei to find education and work, there he studied oil painting, he graduated from the Hebei Normal University in 1983.

In the 1980s, he started painting portraits of his co-workers and the sea while he was engaged in deep-sea oil drilling. In 1989, he was inspired by a painting by Geng Jianyi at an art show in Beijing, which depicted Geng's own laughing face. In 1990, he eventually moved to Hongmiao in the Chaoyang District, Beijing, which was also home to other Chinese artists. During this period, his style of art developed out of portraits of his bohemian friends from the artists' village. It is important to note that Yue had been living a "nomadic" existence for much of his life, because his family often moved in order to find work on various oilfields.

The roots of Yue Minjun's style can be traced back to the work of Geng Jianyi, which had first inspired Yue with his work of his own laughing face. Apart from that, Yue had also studied oil painting in the Hebei Normal University from 1985 to 1989. Over the years, Yue Minjun's style has also rapidly developed. Yue often challenges social and cultural conventions by depicting objects and even political issues in a radical and abstract manner. He has also shifted his focus from the technical aspects to the "whole concept of creation".

Yue Minjun’s first museum show in the United States took place at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York. The show, Yue Minjun and the Symbolic Smile, featured bronze and polychrome sculptures, paintings and drawings.

B o b S i c k

Bob  Sick ( Bob Yuditha Agung )

Born in 1971 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Bob Sick currently lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Strongly influenced by Jean-Michel Basquiat and pop cultures including music and tattoo art, the primitive-naive charms Bob’s works expressing a sense of social awareness. In the early 90’s, Bob has found himself a distinctive style in mixed-media painting in a fairly short time. He has become the golden boy of the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Yogyakarta, received several awards including the Affandi Prize in 1994. A sense of losing one’s direction in life has come to Bob with its sudden and unexpected success, haunted him for years until 2000. He realized the true meaning of painting, genuine happiness of living, and decided life is too beautiful to be wasted.

To Bob, pain and bliss, both psychological and physical, these are significant elements that he has continuously explored throughout the evolution of his creations. Out of the pain, there is bliss. There are still beautiful faces and moments at every turns of the life; paint exists as a beautiful language through the vibrating colors and melodious compositions of his paintings. "I believe I can fly, with paint I believe can fly. Don't worry, be happy. Nothing needed to be worried to paint...... I believe life is beautiful."

BoB's Artwork:

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst was born in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. His father was reportedly a motor mechanic, who left the family when Hirst was 12. His mother, Mary Brennan, of Irish Catholic descent, worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau, and has stated that she lost control of her son when he was young. He was arrested on two occasions for shoplifting.


However, Hirst sees her as someone who would not tolerate rebellion: she cut up his bondage trousers and heated one of his Sex Pistols vinyl records on the cooker to turn it into a fruit bowl (or a plant pot).

He says, "If she didn't like how I was dressed, she would quickly take me away from the bus stop." She did, though, encourage his liking for drawing, which was his only successful educational subject.

His art teacher at Allerton Grange School "pleaded" for Hirst to be allowed to enter the sixth form,where he took two A-levels, achieving an "E" grade in art. He was refused admission to Jacob Kramer school of art when he first applied, but attended the college after a subsequent successful application to the Foundation Diploma course.


He worked for two years on London building sites, then studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (1986–89).

There are a lot of Art works by Damien, and Hirst's first major international presentation was in the Venice Biennale in 1993 with the work, Mother and Child Divided, a cow and a calf cut into sections and exhibited in a series of separate vitrines. He curated the show Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away in 1994 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, where he exhibited Away from the Flock (a sheep in a tank of formaldehyde). On 9 May, Mark Bridger, a 35-year old artist from Oxford, walked in to the gallery and poured black ink into the tank, and retitled the work Black Sheep.

He was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish, and was given two years' probation. The sculpture was restored at a cost of £1,000. When a photograph of Away from the Flock was reproduced in the 1997 book by Hirst I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one-to-one, always, forever, now, the vandalism was referenced by allowing the tank to be obscured by pulling a card, reproducing the effect of ink being poured into the tank; this resulted in Hirst being sued by Bridger for violating his copyright on Black Sheep.

Damien Hirst  and The Artworks

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (né Andrej Varhola, Jr.) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889–1942) and Júlia (née Zavacká, 1892–1972),whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U.S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born in 1923, and John, born in 1925.

His parents were working-class Lemko emigrants from Mikó (now called Miková), located in today’s northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Warhol's father immigrated to the United States in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents. Warhol's father worked in a coal mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy Warhol had two older brothers—Pavol (Paul), the oldest, was born in Slovakia; Ján was born in Pittsburgh. Pavol's son, James Warhola, became a successful children's book illustrator. About 1939, he started to collect autographed cards of film stars.

In third grade, Warhol had Sydenham's chorea (also known as St. Vitus’ Dance), the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever which causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. He became a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors. Often bedridden as a child, he became an outcast at school and bonded with his mother. At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed. Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences. When Warhol was 13, his father died in an accident.

As a teenager, Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945. After graduating from high school, his intentions were to study art education at the University of Pittsburgh in the hope of becoming an art teacher, but his plans changed and he enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology in pursuit of an art career as a commercial illustrator. In 1949, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. A lot of  Art works create by Warhol , and he become the Legend of Pop Art.

Jean Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, New York after the death of his brother Max, was the second of four children of Matilda Andrades (July 28, 1934 – November 17, 2008) and Gerard Basquiat (born 1930). He had two younger sisters: Lisane, born in 1964, and Jeanine, born in 1967.His father, Gerard Basquiat, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and his mother, Matilde Basquiat, of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, who was born in Brooklyn, New York. Matilde instilled a love for art in her young son by taking him to Art Museums in Manhattan and enrolling him as a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. His teachers noticed his artistic abilities, and his mother encouraged her son's artistic talent. By the age of eleven, Basquiat could fluently speak, read, and write French, Spanish, and English.

In September 1968, when Basquiat was about eight, he was hit by a car while playing in the street. His arm was broken and he suffered several internal injuries, and eventually underwent a splenectomy. While he was recuperating from his injuries, his mother brought him the Grey's Anatomy book to keep him occupied. This book would prove to be influential in his future artistic outlook. His parents eventually separated that year and he and his sisters were raised by their father.

The family resided in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, for five years, then moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974. After two years, they returned to New York City.Then when he was eleven years old, his mother was committed to a mental institution and thereafter spent time in and out of institutions.

At 15, Basquiat ran away from home. He slept on park benches in Washington Square Park, and was arrested and returned to the care of his father within a week. Basquiat dropped out of Edward R. Murrow High School in the tenth grade. His father banished him from the household and Basquiat stayed with friends in Brooklyn. He supported himself by selling T-shirts and homemade post cards. He also worked at the Unique Clothing Warehouse in West Broadway, Manhattan.nowdays Basquiat is the legend of Contemporary Artist

IDENTITIES

Identities, Colomboscope. 
Visual Engagement Exhibition

Identities: A Visual Engagement, is the visual arts component of Colomboscope, that also includes Literature, Film and Dance. Colomboscope 2013 has adopted the theme of “Identities’ and this multi-disciplinary arts event explores the different approaches to the theme ‘Identities’ through the various disciplines.

Participating Artists Anoli Perera, Anomaa Rajakaruna, Aruna Vidanaavachchi, Dominic Sansoni, Janananda Laksiri, Kingsley Gunatillake, Lakisha Fernando, Manori Jayasinghe, Pala Pothupitiye, Pradeep Chandrasiri, Priyanthi Kumari, Sajeewani Hewawitharana, Chinthaka & Poornima Thenuwara.

This exhibitions will opened at 

9 Am, March 23, 2013, until 6 Pm ,March 24 ,2013.

Place : 50/1, Park Street, Colombo, Sri Lank

For more information about the exhibition please go to the Hempel Galleries

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E (ART) H! Green Exhibition

Today is opening  of   E(ART)H! Green Exhibition..

Earth Hour is one of the WWF [World wildlife Fund]  campaign, the world's largest conservation organization, in the form of a global initiative to encourage individuals, communities, business practitioners, and governments around the world to participate and turn off lights and appliances that are not in the use for 1 hour, on every Saturday in the 3rd week of March each year


 The most interesting Motto in this exhibition is
* Bring your own thrift and
* Bring your own drinking water

This exhibition will closed at March 26, 2013

"Vacuum Learning" Ceramic Art Exhibition

"IWAK" is Ceramic Student Association. Iwak that was founded in 1996 as a platform of interaction, communication and appreciation between students and alumni of ISI Yogyakarta. Since its inception, IWAK has done many exhibitions both inside or outside Yogya as a token of appreciation to the Indonesian art world through the medium of ceramics.

"Vacuum Learning" Derived from the word "Vacuum" that means empty , is an imaginary idea arising from the condition of the silence, and the word "Learning" learning to build a bond between the artist and Visitors so that they can build a relationship that can complement each other in the field of art perceptions.

"Vacuum Learning" Ceramic Art Exhibition  will be held on 19-27 March 2013 at Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta .


Chairman Exhibition : Dwi Fajarintaka a.k.a Alex

Artist : "IWAK" Ceramic Student Association.

The exhibition will be opened by:

Cpc. Subroto. Sm (Alumnus / FSR ISI)

Opening on Tuesday
March 19, 2013
Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta
Jl. Suroto 2 Kotabaru Yogyakarta


Author:
Subroto. Sm
Sudjud Dartanto

Performance Artist:
Durango (Band Conscious PBI)
Just A (Band Agriculture UGM)
The Half Eleven p.m

HOST:
Poliem
Yessi Diana P.

E(ART)H! Green Exhibition

Jogjakarta city of Indonesia  is never sleep, there is about 4000 and more artist especially the fine art artists are  lives in this small town, everyday and every weeks we can see a lot of art exhibitions held on the galleries and public art spaces.  I AM ( Independent Art-space & Management) proudly presenting:

E (ART) H! Green Exhibition

"Manifestation To Earth"

Featuring photographs of Indonesia Earth Hour movement and art exhibitions  using thrift as a medium of expression.

Artist:
Farid Stevy (FSTVLST), Agus Prasetyo, Mahaputro Vito, Pensil Terbang (Flying Pencil) and Kids of Playgroup ECCD TK-RC

Opening:
March 21, 2013 At 19:00
at I AM - Independent Art-space & Management
Jl. Nagan Yogyakarta Lor 25 55 133

Open every day at 12:00 to 21:00
Cp: Calvin +6288822720129

Workshop totebag manufacture and utilize used goods become part of the lifestyle
Speakers:  MagicFingersSyn

Registration IDR 20.000, -

Cp. Helga: +6287734262380 and Mutek: +6285729087063
or visit www.iam-jogja.com

Exhibition : "Its Not a Musics Nor Visual Arts"

Bukan Musik Bukan Seni Rupa

(Its Not a Musics nor Visual Arts)

Here is the best of progressive art at 2013,Very Dangerous Visual and  Art performance  Exhibition, They said: "What will happened if Visual art and Music is fusion?", Lets wait and see what will come through this great concept.  

This Very Dangerous Art Community Exhibition will be opened by Eko Nugroho at Sasana Ajiyasa (Indonesia Art Institute) Yogyakarta , Indonesia. Opening : 2013, 20 March, 13:00 pm.

I'll be there, and hope the work will blow my head ?.

300 - 500 top Rank Fine Art Artist List

top 300 - 500 Rank Artist:

FUNAKOSHI Katsura (1951)

ALEXANDER Keith Savel (1946-1998)

XIE Nanxing (1970)

BRANDT Nick (1966)

CHEN Wenji (1954)

BAS Hernan (1978)

AUERBACH Tauba (1981)

SMITH Kiki (1954)

HUME Gary (1962)

JIA Guangjian (1964)

LI Songsong (1973)

HERRERA Arturo (1959)

MEESE Jonathan (1971)

SEEN (1961)

YANG Ermin (1966)

LOU Bo’an (1947)

WURM Erwin (1954)

GRAHAM Rodney (1949)

KÖKER Azade (1949)

AKAKCE Haluk (1970)

LASKER Jonathan (1948)

KO Young-Hoon (1952)

ORLINSKI Richard (1966)

LI Xiang (1962)

MEI Mosheng (1960)

ABDESSEMED Adel (1971)

NAWA Kohei (1975)

FETTING Rainer (1949)

QUINN Ged (1963)

MAIER-AICHEN Florian (1973)

MIAN Situ (1953)

JI Dachun (1968)

YU Lele (1955)

PIGNATELLI Luca (1962)

MELGAARD Bjarne (1967)

XIA Junna (1971)

ELIASSON Olafur (1967)

PENNY Evan (1953)

MO Ke (1949)

GUO Beiping (1949)

GUO Wei (1960)

WANG Xingwei (1969)

HE Sen (1968)

HAN Shuli (1948)

ONUS Lin (1948-1996)

MO Xiaosong (1964)

YU Hanxi (1976)

BUBI (1956)

LIU Dahong (1962)

NIE Ou (1948)

KNEFFEL Karin (1957) €

DERAKSHANI Reza (1952) 

MINTER Marilyn (1948) 

CHANG Qing (1965) 

SUWAGE Agus (1959) 

 CAO Jun (1966) 

MAJERUS Michel (1967-2002)

SASNAL Wilhelm (1972) 

HAMMOND Bill (1947) 

 KAO Yu (1981) €

TU Hongtao (1976) 

BRAAQ (1951-1997) 

 CREWDSON Gregory (1962)

LEE Bul (1964)

 KELLY John (1965)

 INNES Callum (1962)

KVIUM Michael (1955) 

ARKLEY Howard (1951-1999)

JENKELL Laurence (1965)

ASPEVIG Clyde (1951)

HUO Chunyang (1946) 

YAO Mingjing (1959)

ARMLEDER John Michael (1948)

HANDIWIRMAN Saputra (1975) 

WILEY Kehinde (1977) 

 DUAN Jianwei (1961)

LONG Richard (1945)

 SHI Benming (1958) 

 SONG Yulin (1947) 

BALINCOURT de Jules (1972) 

ALTMEJD David (1974) 

YALÇINDAG Ekrem (1964)

KALLAT Jitish (1974) 

ORAN Ahmet (1957)

CALLE Sophie (1953) 

FLEURY Sylvie (1961)

 INDIEGUERILLAS (c.1975/77) 

 LANDERS Sean (1962)

 HAUSNER Xenia (1951)

MACH David (1956) 

RHODE Robin (1976)

IRFAN M. (1972) 

TILLMANS Wolfgang (1968)

CAO Li (1954)

BARTON Del Kathryn (1972) 

KRIVOLAP Anatoliy (1946) 

DEMAND Thomas (1964) 

CLAIRMONT Philip Anthony (1949-1984) 

OLIVER Bronwyn (1959-2006)

MAO Yigang (1958)

HUANG Yongping (1954)

SONG Yu (1973)

LAMBIE Jim (1964)

SHEN Jiawei (1948)

KUNATH Friedrich (1974)

FAN Bo (1966)

SHONIBARE Yinka (1962)

QI Zhilong (1962)

FORD Walton (1960)

UKLANSKI Piotr (1969)

WAHLSTRAND Gunnel (1974)

QIN Qi (1975)

FAIREY Shepard (1970)

JIANG Hongguang (1966)

ZHU Deyong (1960)

BEECROFT Vanessa (1969)

MORRIS Sarah (1967)

WEI Xiaorong (1957)

MARIA de Nicola (1954)

WOODMAN Francesca (1958-1981)

CHEN Shuzhong (1960)

WANG Yin (1964)

DUAN Zhengqu (1958)

HE Wenqing (1970)

NORDSTRÖM Jockum (1963)

DOLRON Desirée (1963)

WU Wensheng (1950)

ESSER Elger (1967)

KARAM Nadim (1957)

MUTU Wangechi (1972)

NORTON Jim C. (1953)

KE Liang (1949)

KHAN Idris (1978)

LO GIUDICE Marcello (1957)

BLEK LE RAT (1951)

DENG Jianjin (1961)

ESSAYDI Lalla (1956)

ARNOLDI Charles (1946)

COOKE Nigel (1973)

GÜRBÜZ Selma (1960)

SIGRIST Flore (1985)

BROOS Karin (1950)

FRIZE Bernard (1954)

WEEMS Carrie Mae (1953)

HE Baili (1945)

BAYKAM Bedri (1957)

LI Jinguo (1971)

SUN Weimin (1946)

TYSON Keith (1969)

Xinjian (1953)

GU Xiong (1953)

DEREDIA Jiménez (1954) 

TAAFFE Philip (1955)

LI Qing (1981)

PERRY Grayson (1960)

PIRHASHEMI Afshin (1974) 

UTARIT Natee (1970)

XU Mangyao (1945)

AMANO Yoshitaka (1952) 

LUO Quanmu (1965) 

 MA Desheng (1952)

YU Hui (1960)

WANG Chuanfeng (1967)

DING Fang (1956)

ROKKAKU Ayako (1982)

SU Wong-Shen (1956)

NABIL Youssef (1972)

WEISTLING Morgan (1964)

DEWS John Steven (1949)

ZENG Chuanxing (1974)

 WANG Xiangming (1956)

SCHARF Kenny (1958)

QUILTY Ben (1973)

BISKY Norbert (1970)

WEI Ershen (1954)

KANG Hyung-Koo (1954)

CREED Martin (1968)

SHEN Xiaotong (1968)

 FAIBISOVICH Semyon (1949)

QIU Xiaofei (1977)

LEDRAY Charles (1960)

XIAO Huirong (1946) 

FUTURA 2000 (1955)

 LIANG Z.S. (1953)

 LU Huaizhong (1945)

ZHOU Jingxin (1959) 

SUTAWIJAYA Putu (1971) 

DRISSI Mohamed (1946-2003)

EL-SIWI Adel (1952)

ZIMMERMANN Peter (1956) 

FENG Yiming (1965) 

CHOI So Young (1980)

MILLER Harland (1964) 

LI Fengbai (1980-1984) 

JONONE (1963)

ZHU Yiyong (1957)

RITTS Herb (1952-2002)

GU Zhinong (1971)

LIU Wei (1972)

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100 - 300 Top Rank fine art Artist List

list of the best artist:

STRUTH Thomas (1954)

YIN Zhaoyang (1970)

AI Weiwei (1957)

SCHNABEL Julian (1951)

KASSAY Jacob (1984)

ZHAN Wang (1962)

SU Xiaobai (1949)

COMBAS Robert (1957)

MUECK Ron (1958)

XU Bing (1955)

WALKER Kelley (1969)

JIANG Hongwei (1957)

PEYTON Elizabeth (1965)

LU Yushun (1962)

XU Jiang (1955)

HONG Ling (1955)

ZHENG Baichong (1945)

VENTURA Ronald (1973)

HUANG Gang (1961)

SUI Jianguo (1956)

CAI Zhisong (1972)

YAN Ping (1956)

JIANG Guofang (1951)

FABRE Jan (1958)

CRAGG Tony (1949)

WANG Yancheng (1960)

MAO Yan (1968)

SHU Qun (1958)

NAN Haiyan (1962)

BALKENHOL Stephan (1957)

KRUGER Barbara (1945)

TANG Yongli (1951)

MUÑOZ Juan (1953-2001)

OPIE Julian (1958)

FAN Yang (1955)

ZHANG Li (1958)

GUO Shifu (1945)

MAPPLETHORPE Robert (1946-1989)

GAO Xiaohua (1955)

DELVOYE Wim (1965)

GUPTA Subodh (1964)

FISCHL Eric (1948)

HOUSEAGO Thomas (1972)

GOLDSTEIN Jack (1945-2003)

ZHU Wei (1966)

CHEN Ke (1978)

LOU ZhengGang (1966)

OROZCO Gabriel (1962)

XU Lei (1963)

YI Ming (1956)

PENONE Giuseppe (1947)

XIA Xiaowan (1959)

ISHIDA Tetsuya (1973-2005)

LAWLER Louise (1947)

SON Sangki (1949)

ALYS Francis (1959)

CHANG Tianhu (1970)

ATCHUGARRY Pablo (1954)

ÖNSOY Kemal (1954)

KUITCA Guillermo David (1961)

WANG Xiaobo (1974)

 Wei (1974)

RUFF Thomas (1958)

YU Hong (1966) 

PANG Maokun (1963)

GONZALEZ-TORRES Felix (1957-1996) 

XIN Dongwang (1963) 

SUN Liang (1957) 

RUBY Sterling (1972) 

OFILI Chris (1968) € 684,671 

SANCHEZ Tomás (1948)

MARCLAY Christian (1955) 

TANG Zhigang (1959) 

XU Qinsong (1952)

 CHIA Sandro (1946) 

REN Zhong (1976)

 LIU Yi (1957) 

FENG Zhengjie (1968)

SONG Ling (1961)

 IMMENDORFF Jörg (1945-2007)

FÖRG Günther (1952) 

TAKANO Aya (1976)

OH Chi Gyun (1956)

STORRIER Timothy Austin (1949) 

 LACHAPELLE David (1968)

PALADINO Mimmo (1948)

 TROCKEL Rosemarie (1952)

JIA Aili (1979) 

BRUYCKERE de Berlinde (1964)

 HALLEY Peter (1953)

KHER Bharti (1969)

WEST Franz (1947)

SUH Do Ho (1962)

 SENJU Hiroshi (1958) 

YUAN Wu (1959) 

HORN Roni (1955)

 WEI Jia (1975)

GRELLE Martin (1954)

CUI Xiaodong (1964)

PEREZ Enoc (1967)

XUE Song (1965)

CLEMENTE Francesco (1952)

GENZKEN Isa (1948)

WANG Yong (1948)

BARNEY Matthew (1967)

LI Huayi (1948)

COLEN Dan (1979)

MOSHIRI Farhad (1963)

GU Wenda (1955)

WANG Jinsong (1963)

TOLON Canan (1953/55)

PLENSA Jaume (1955)

LI Jikai (1975)

CASWELL Rip (1962)

YANG Shihong (1947)

PAN Gongkai (1947)

WEISCHER Matthias (1973)

NAKAJIMA Chinami (1945)

HOLZER Jenny (1950)

CHAO Ge (1957)

ANDERSSON Karin Mamma (1962)

MANTOFANI Rudi (1973)

EMIN Tracey (1963)

CHEN Zhen (1955-2000)

HATOUM Mona (1952)

KILIMNIK Karen (1955)

XIANG Jing (1968)

BAECHLER Donald (1956)

LOWMAN Nate (1979)

JACKSON Matthew Day (1974)

BRADLEY Joe (1975)

ZHAO Jiancheng (1949)

MANN Sally (1951)

FURNAS Barnaby (1973)

BILAL Enki (1951)

ZHANG Enli (1965)

MIYAJIMA Tatsuo (1957)

YAN Feihong (1952)

LONG Rui (1946)

PASQUA Philippe (1965)

WALKER Kara (1969)

FRIEDMAN Tom (1965)

SALLE David (1952)

LI Xiangqun (1961)

MEIRELES Cildo (1948)

YAN Lei (1965)

BLECKNER Ross (1949)

SERRANO Andres (1950)

ARIFIN Samsul (1979)

for more detail about their Auction turnover ,view the image data bellow.

Top Rank Artist list for Reference , click here to view The previous data 1-100 artist List, click here to view 300-500 Artist List,  if you need more data, you can ask at the Art Gallery or Museum @ your country. or visit the art price, please browse through the internet for another appropriate site.

100 Top Rank Fine Art Artist list

How well did Contemporary art sell at 2013 ?

Today Contemporary art represents big business for auction operators; at the end of 2011, young artists – i.e. born after 1945 – became a more profitable segment than Old Masters, generating 11% of total global auction revenue compared with less than 4% just ten years earlier.

With nearly € 860 m in total global auction revenue from Contemporary art over the latest 12-month period

there is a drop in revenue (roughly -6%) for an equivalent number of works sold is nothing alarming and 2011/2012 stands out as the third best performance in the history of the Contemporary art market, behind the peak of the bubble 2007/2008 (€ 976.9 m) .

Please Check out the Artist List Rank at 2011 / 2012 bellow:

1. BASQUIAT Jean-Michel (1960-1988)
2. ZENG Fanzhi (1964)
3. WOOL Christopher (1955)
4. HIRST Damien (1965)
5. ZHANG Xiaogang (1958)
6.  ZHOU Chunya (1955)
7. PRINCE Richard (1949)
8. CHEN Yifei (1946-2005)
9. KOONS Jeff (1955)
10. HE Jiaying (1957)
11. SHERMAN Cindy (1954)
12. KIEFER Anselm (1945)
13.  MURAKAMI Takashi (1962)
14. FANG Lijun (1963)
15. WANG Yidong (1955)
16. YANG Feiyun (1954)
17. GURSKY Andreas (1955)
18. LUO Zhongli (1948)
19. YUE Minjun (1962)
20. BROWN Glenn (1966)
21. CATTELAN Maurizio (1960)
22. LIU Ye (1964)
23. KAPOOR Anish (1954)
24. LIU Wei (1965)
25. BARCELO Miquel (1957)
26. AI Xuan (1947)
27. NARA Yoshitomo (1959)
28. CONDO George (1957)
29. WANG Mingming (1952)
30. HARING Keith (1958-1990)
31. GORMLEY Antony (1950)
32. NOLAND Cady (1956)
33. STINGEL Rudolf (1956)
34. OEHLEN Albert (1954)
35. KIPPENBERGER Martin (1953-1997)
36. GROTJAHN Mark (1968)
37. WANG Guangyi (1957)
38. FISCHER Urs (1973)
39. LIU Dawei (1945)
40. CHEN Yanning (1945)
41. SCULLY Sean (1946)
42. MCCARTHY Paul (1945)
43. SHI Guoliang (1956)
44. WALL Jeff (1946)
45. XUE Liang (1956)
46. ZHAO Bandi (1966)
47. DUMAS Marlene (1953)
48. QUINN Marc (1964)
49. GUO Runwen (1955)
50. CURRIN John (1962)
51. GOBER Robert (1954)
52. LIGON Glenn (1960)
53. HODGES Jim (1957)
54. LIU Xiaodong (1963)
55. RAY Charles (1953)
56. MUNIZ Vik (1961)
57. XU Lele (1955)
58. BROWN Cecily (1969)
59. DING Yi (1962)
60. WANG Xijing (1946)
61. LI Chen (1963)
62. TOMASELLI Fred (1956)
63. SUGIMOTO Hiroshi (1948)
64. HE Duoling (1948)
65. YANG Xiaoyang (1958)
66. LENG Jun (1963)
67. ALSOUDANI Ahmed (1976)
68. BANKSY (1974)
69. VAREJAO Adriana (1964) 
70. CAI Guoqiang (1957) 
71. YANG Shaobin (1963) 
72. DOIG Peter (1959)
73.  LI Guijun (1964)
74. SCHÜTTE Thomas (1954)
75. LIU Kongxi (1952)
76. CHEN Danqing (1953)
77. REYLE Anselm (1970)
78. PETTIBON Raymond (1957)
79. LONG Liyou (1958) 
80. TIAN Liming (1955)
81. FENG Yuan (1952)
82. YE Yongqing (1958)
83. TUYMANS Luc (1958)
84. KENTRIDGE William (1955)
85. MAO Xuhui (1956)
86. LONGO Robert (1953) 
87.  PARRINO Steven (1958-2004)
88. GUYTON Wade (1972)
89. MILHAZES Beatriz (1960)
90.  AY TJOE Christine (1973)
91. LEVINE Sherrie (1947)
92. YAN Pei-Ming (1960)
93. SHI Chong (1963)
94. FANG Chuxiong (1950)
95. MASRIADI I Nyoman (1973) 
96. RONDINONE Ugo (1964) 
97. KELLEY Mike (1954-2012) 
98. ZHANG Huan (1965) 
99. RAUCH Neo (1960)
100. BRADFORD Mark (1961)

for more detail you can view the image for Ranking bellow:

Top Rank Artist list for Reference , click here to view The data of 100-300 artist List, Click here to view the 300-500 artist list, if you need more data, you can ask at the Art Gallery or Museum @ your country. or visit the art price, please browse through the internet for another appropriate site

Exhibition: The Jakarta Properties

Invitation Opening of  "The Jakarta's Properties"  Fine Art Exhibitions

Place : Galeri Nasional Indonesia
Jl.Medan Merdeka Timur - Jakarta, Indonesia
Held on : Wednesday,   March 20 - April 1, 201307.30 p.m 

Art Community Exhibitions is curated by : Rizki A. Zaelani

Artist : Afriani, A Nazilie, Handoyo, Ipung Heri Purnomo, Joko Kisworo, Judo Prasetijo, Paul Hendro, Sujarwo, Sukriyal Sadin, Tato Kestareja

Fine Art

"Self Portrait" by Affandi, 1960

Fine art, from the 17th century on, is art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept, distinguishing them from applied arts that also have to serve some practical function.

Historically, the five greater fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, with minor arts including drama and dancing. Today, the fine arts commonly include the visual art and performing art forms, such as painting, sculpture, collage, decollage, assemblage, installation, calligraphy,music, dance, theatre, architecture,  film, photography, conceptual art, murals, and printmaking. 
However, in some institutes of learning or in museums fine art, and frequently the term fine arts (pl.) as well, are associated exclusively with visual art forms.

One definition of fine art is "a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture."

The word "fine" does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline. This definition tends to exclude visual art forms that could be considered craftwork or applied art, such as textiles. The visual arts has been described as a more inclusive and descriptive phrase for current art practice. Also, today there is an escalation of media in which high art is more recognized to occur.

The term is still often used outside of the arts to denote when someone has perfected an activity to a very high level of skill. For example, one might metaphorically say that "Pelé took football to the level of a fine art."

In that sense, there are conceptual differences between the Fine Arts and the Applied Arts. That distinction is largely the result of an issue raised in Britain by the conflict between the followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, including William Morris, and the early modernists, including Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. The former sought to bring socialist principles to bear on the arts by including the more commonplace crafts of the masses within the realm of the arts, while the modernists sought to keep artistic endeavor as exclusive and esoteric.

Little History of Fine Art

According to some writers the concept of a distinct category of fine art is an invention of the Early Modern period in the West. Larry Shiners in his The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (2003) locates the invention in the 18th century: "There was a traditional “system of the arts” in the West before the eighteenth century. (Other traditional cultures still have a similar system.)

In that system, an artist or artisan was a skilled maker or practitioner, a work of art was the useful product of skilled work, and the appreciation of the arts was integrally connected with their role in the rest of life. “Art,” in other words, meant approximately the same thing as the Greek word techne, or in English “skill”, a sense that has survived in phrases like “the art of war,” “the art of love,” and “the art of medicine.” Similar ideas have been expressed by Paul Oskar Kristeller, Pierre Bourdieu, and Terry Eagleton(e.g The Ideology of the Aesthetic), though the point of invention is often placed earlier, in the Italian Renaissance. 

Other scholars see more continuity or similarity with attitudes to art held in other wealthy societies with long traditions of art, such as those of classical antiquity and Middle Eastern and Asian cultures such as China, Japan, and India. Even the Aztec culture evidently collected and valued Olmec antiques from over a thousand years before.