Who is the best Artist Alive right now.

>>2956387
i suppose technically he is still alive but he hasn't been good for like 30 years

anyway i vote for ai weiwei because his art actually does art stuff, subverts his government, gets him beat up, makes people angry, is pretty

he's cool

>>2956387
Oh joy. More colorful children's drawings with deliberately flawed perspective and surreal themes. How incredibly original.

>>2956407
Better than anime and fantasy game tier art though. I welcome this

>>2956401
Have you seen his shows? There just videos of him talking about himself.
He only seems edgy because china hates him.
Political figure, yes.
Artist, Yes, but not the best.

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Huge fan of Elliot Green right now

>>2956413
Some of his stuff is massive installations, what are you on about?

>>2956408
>better than anime and fantasy game art

No. No it's not.

>>2956416
why would you ever be a fan of Elliot Green

>>2956440
Every artist except the people on this board and DeviantArt would disagree with you

Lets not talk about the elderly but about those that are between 30-50yo

>>2956442
>I like it

meeeeeeeeee

>>2956416
It's amazing how unoriginal these assholes manage to be, considering fine art is supposed to focus around original ideas.

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>>2956446
ok
>Dana Schutz

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>>2956458
Show me something that meets your standard then nerd

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>>2956465
Haha, ok kiddo.

what the fuck is going on?

Sycra.

>>2956464
fuck, this is cool

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>>2956587
it's like Tarsila do Amaral on steroids

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Eric Fischl is high on my list.

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>>2956592

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Something about Alyssa Monks paintings just works for me.

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>>2956596

The nazis were right.

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Edward Knippers

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Jenny Saville

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>>2956611

>>2956590
is that hulk hogan?

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Chuck Close

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me

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>>2956619

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Kent Williams

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>>2956625

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Christian Rex van Minnen

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Allison Schulnik

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>>2956630

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>>2956631
you have shit taste anon...

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Liu Xiaodong (yeah I'm that guy)

He only works directly from life, and it that freshness and engagement shows, even and especially in the slight wonk.

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>>2956632
Oh no an anonymous poster on 4chan has different tastes in art than me, time to reevaluate my life.

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Odd Nerdrum

>>2956633
figures are too small in the composition. the landscape is correctly composed the figures are just too tiny. this one had potential.

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>>2956636

>>2956637
I disagree, I just think it places more focus on the landslide that destroyed their village.

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Yu Ji

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>>2956643

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Peter Howson

>>2956641
i can see that but to me it seems like they're an afterthought. I think humans should always take precedence over their environment. If you want me to feel a certain way about a person's condition make the person express it not their environment. If there's sorrow in someone's eyes and body language that will betray their condition better than just showing me their destroyed homes.

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>>2956650
given that he had to arrange them all in front of the canvas before he could start painting, I doubt they're an afterthought. honestly I think your belief that humans should always take precedence over their environment is clouding your judgement. It's a perfectly valid belief to have about the content and presentation of a work, but it doesn't mean something like the composition has any sort of objective flaw just because it doesn't focus on the same elements you'd like it to focus on.

>>2956657
i think the biggest flaw to how this painting was done is the size of it then, or the fact that he sight-sized, according to the photo of the work in progress.

I would have rather he scaled the figures up to fit onto a slightly smaller canvas, or he painted it sight size on a canvas that fit the figures and got rid of all that empty space full of landscape.

With how loosely the upper part of this painting is done I think there wouldn't be much missing from it if it was just the skyline of collapsed buildings.

But that's like you said just my personal taste. I'd rather see bigger more detailed figures because figures interest me more than their environment.

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>>2956689
if I was painting this this is more or less the painting I'd have made, but I wouldn't have sight sized I'd have made the figures bigger on a smaller canvas.

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>>2956387
This makes me sad because the closest thing to a contemporary artist who made me feel something with his art died in 2005. I know at this point he's regarded as some meme fantasy painter but his stuff resonates with me so much. I used to have pretty horrible nightmares which I used to write down etc. and his paintings look so alike. When I saw his paintings for the first time it was terrifying and liberating at the same time.

I can't find anyone in the world who makes paintings like his. Lots of 'surreal', 'dark' paintings yeah, but they're always trying to be scary, or creepy, and they just fall flat. Fuck that shithead who murdered him.

>>2956596
How was this painting done? I can't tell at all.

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>>2956723
oil paint and mad skillz

check out her site, lots of images and hires too
alyssamonks.com

>>2956692
that would have completely changed the mood of the image and message he was trying to get across though.

>>2956633
>muh emotional realism
>muh plebs
>muh everyday ugly people

Rembrandt was a mistake.

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John brosio

>>2956862
Better than u

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>>2956865
good choice

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>>2956872

>>2956872
This is great anon

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I could never pick one but Ive been loving Benjamin Bjorklund

>>2956870
That's what's sad. Technically skilled artists falling for the pleb meme.

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>>2956872
Ohhh I like these!

>>2956610
>That glass
What's the point with that?

>>2956458

This

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Why is there so many gross looking art in this thread? I'll share some artists that are alive and have gorgeous art.

Jeremy Lipking

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>>2957045
Nick Alm

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>>2957047
Donato Giancola, this guy produces this quality paintings very fast and a lot of them

>>2956624
What a great thread. Glad i asked.
Underrated artist.his books are gr8

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You guys can't be serious...

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Jasper Johns is still alive so it's unquestionably him.
If you mean someone who's still in their prime, then I would go for David Reed, although of course no one on this board is going to like him because you aren't really into art, you just like anime and videogames.

>>2957048
>Donato Giancola,
doesn't he just photobash then copy in oil?

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>>2957132
>copy an entire photo
>tweak some things

>>2957135
I'm not saying this is a bad / unfair working method, it's perfectly legitimate but jesus christ I'd rather kill myself than make art like this

>>2957126
I don't see what's so special about Jasper Johns. David Reed is pretty cool.

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>>2957178
Harder to appreciate these days I guess but at the time there was just nothing like it. Everyone else was an abstract expressionist back then, like Pollock and de Kooning, and then Johns came along with these extremely painterly and textural but also structural, almost decorative paintings, which still seemed expressive but in a much more anonymous way.

>>2957088
>posts le meme
>contributes nothing
We're all very impressed that you're too cool for any of the art ITT

>>2957040
My guess would be "let this cup pass from me"

>>2957045
>>2957047
>>2957048
Zzzzzzz

>>2957126
My nigga

>>2957191
that's a pretty good one right there, for sure

i mean look at the detail on that cutlery (kidding)

>>2956636
>>2956638
I'm not a huge fan of his art, but I have an enormous respect for him as a person. His life has basically been one big middle finger to the art establishment.

>>2956387
Richard Schmid, or Terry Miura.

Fight me

>>2957048
looks like the cover vor some trashy romance novel for middle aged women

>>2957440
for*

>>2956387
yoh yoshinaru or some anime maker

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not the best but young and i like where he is going

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>>2957047
Nick Alm is my pick, his art is just fantastic. I remember seeing this painting in person and it is completely breath taking, not at all like seeing it small on a computer screen.

>>2957544
noah bradley tier

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>>2956716
Very sad. Think how many more amazing paintings he couldve made. Although I prefer his later art, when it was less creepy and more ambiguous

>>2957563
Looks like Max Ernst

>>2957554
He's not that bad. Pretty boring though

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>>2956401
i only like the latest of his paintings, the ones with the pool and house are boring, but i really like his landscape paintings of yorkshire

>>2956387
Grandmaster Kim Jung-Gi

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cool effect with patterns and the stylization

>>2958550
I don't understand why if you like this one you don't like the swimming pool paintings -- they're all masterpieces of stylisation.

>>2958557
i dunno, they feel a bit tryhard or something, this one's more flowing

>>2958558
and i also love the color combinations here

>>2956387
Me

>>2958563
Гoлoвкa oт хyя

>>2958540
>>2958546
>>2958550
I respect the guy but his work does nothing at all for me

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>Juan Ria

>>2958812
fuck off

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>>2956387
I prefer Hockney, but Richter is also an amazing painter.

>>2958857
i like some of his stuff but desu a lot of itiskinda gimmicky

>>2958812
Get out of here, Nile.

>>2957544
those poses are terrible

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>>2957544
reminds me of pic related

>>2958812
are you dense?
almost every artist posted here so far is vastly better that him

>>2959622
Basically this

>>2959622
>>2960071
Richter's work although gimmicky at times is still way better than this >>2959846

Richter is the epitome of the Emperor's new clothes.

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Shadman, hands down

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>>2960180
>automata has gotten so popular to a point where people like shadman are making memes based of it
>it's not even one of the good games in the series
I don't want to live anymore

>>2960074
Not much of an accomplishment.

>>2960167
Is "emperors new clothes" the new "stop liking what I don't like"? Or just the old one? Maybe both. It needs its own version of Godwin's Law either way.

>>2960373
an old one, people have been saying that about abstract art they don't like since the 50s, bit weird to say it about ritcher though, as he's a good technical painter