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1. |
Mark Rothko |
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look at his stuff and you might not get it, but read about him, and see a rothko in person.. you'll think differently |
2. |
Sally Mann |
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all time fav photographer. and she's from the VA! |
3. |
Robert Rauschenberg |
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no one can collage like this guy |
4. |
Jean-Michel Basquiat |
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nyc in the 80's, yesss. warhol's best bud. |
5. |
Sabrina Ward Harrison |
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representing a current day artist.. second best collagist to rauschenberg |
this is way hard to narrow down to five. The following could tie with that last spot: Willem de Kooning, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Diane Arbus, Robert Motherwell, and Pollock- not for aesthetics, but for what he did for art in America. well, i'm just a big fan of abstract expressionism.. and what it did for American art. Ones that would never be close to my top five: Ansel Adams, Salvador Dali