This is a list of artists who create contemporary art, i.e. those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism) and the present day. Artists on this list meet the following criteria:

  • The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by his/her peers or successors.
  • The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
  • The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
  • The person's work either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums, or had works in many significant libraries.

See also: Art, List of painters, List of modern artists, List of sculptors

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Sat Sep 4 03:06:02 2010

what's a list of some 20th-21rst century Contemporary artists with mostly macabre types of work?
Q. OH! and if you could, a list of well.. 16th-18th century artists like that too^^ plzz? thanks sooo much you guys^^
Asked by XxSkater4LifexX - Mon Nov 10 20:13:01 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Look up these artists: Goya Edvard Munch Picasso Warhol
Answered by ArtisteExtraordinaire - Mon Nov 10 20:27:55 2008

Where can a songwriter find a good Christian music tip sheet to market songs?
Q. I'm a Christian songwriter. On the net there are lots of tips sheets available listing artists and bands that are looking for material to record but what I've found thus far is all secular. I'm mainly looking for Contemporary Christian leads. Thanks in advance
Asked by radeculous - Fri Mar 6 19:35:26 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. do you mean you are a chriatian who writes songs or do you write religious music?
Answered by John B - Fri Mar 6 20:01:44 2009

Is Punk Rock Jewish?
Q. Jewish Punk Though few people would associate punk rock with Judaism, the punk movement was created by Jews from Brooklyn and Queens. By Saul Austerlitz Is punk Jewish? At first glance, what music could be less (stereotypically) Jewish? Punk rock, in its classic, Sex Pistols-and-Ramones form, was all about simplicity, rebelliousness, anti-intellectualism, and shock value. Its foremost practitioners kitted themselves out in matching swastikas or dressed like a white-ethnic biker gang straight out of "The Wild One," but it was essential to the project of punk that its musicians appear brutish, Neanderthal, evil--anything but bookish, or well-spoken, or worst of all, nice. And yet, as Steven Lee Beeber documents in his book "The Heebie-Jeeb [cont.]
Asked by C Deezy McCain - Mon Jul 23 16:57:06 2007 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. No, Punk Rock is dead.
Answered by Dr. Cain, Esq. - Mon Jul 23 17:10:18 2007

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than their older contemporary Leonardo His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur St Michael and the Dragon 1505 Louvre Museum Paris http en wikipedia org wiki Raphael

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Instead of casting a wide net or forcing a thematic perspective, eight . artists. were asked to present impossibly, impractically, impressively large work the idea being that since "no one is buying" anyway, some . artists. have found a silver lining, taking the opportunity to experiment with media and scale outside . ... Nice . contemporary. version of the The Raft of the Medusa. Gericault would be pleased. lacasarosada: Nice . contemporary. version of the The Raft of the Medusa. ...