Thursday, September 30, 2010

15 Artists, 15 Minutes

A friend tagged me in this meme on Facebook, but I thought it would be interesting to see how our GCVA community responds.

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen Artists who've influenced you and that will ALWAYS STICK WITH YOU. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.


1. Paula Santiago
2. Judy Chicago
3. Marc Chagall
4. Caravaggio
5. Kiki Smith
6. Frida Kahlo
7. Gina Pane
8. Orlan
9. J.M.W. Turner
10. Andy Warhol
11. Helen Frankenthaler
12. Richard Serra
13. Jose Clemente Orozco
14. Marina Abramovic
15. Teresa Margolles



If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged. List your 15 in the comments section. Hit it!

Image: Paula Santiago, Ch’ulel, 2000, rice paper, hair, blood, wax, marble

13 comments:

Earl Grey said...

At this moment, I would be inclined to list:
1. Constable
2. Rothko
3. Turner
4. Sean Scully
5. Tony Cragg
6. Sir Christopher Wren
7. Ruskin
8. Sargent
9. Maya Lin
10. Serra
11. Tara Donovan
12. Duchamp
13. Manet
14. Sherrie Levine/Andrea Fraser ---tie
15. Phil Collins, esp. for "they shoot horses" (2004) is one of the best video pieces I have ever seen. I got to see it at Tate Modern Thanks for sending this on!
I'd love to hear from everyone on this!

Sister Thorn said...

Here is my list, although there are some not included

1. Mark Rothko
2. Judy Chicago
3. Simon Schama
4. Manet
5. Rembrandt
6. Piet Mondrian
7. Linda Nochlin
8. Velazquez
9. Marylin Stokstad
10. Marc Chagall
11. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
12. Jeff Koons
13. Damien Hurst
14. Duchamp
15. Alice Neel

Rebecca L Redding said...

1. Apple Company
2. Allen Lorton, photographer
3. Frank Lloyd Wright
4. Rothko
5. Degas
6. Sarah Dessen
7. Jackson Pollock
8. How Magazine
9. Objectified/Helvetica Documentary
10. Andy Warhol
11. Notcot
12. Graphic Exchange
13.
14.
15.

Unknown said...

1. Andy Warhol
2. Steve Fryholm
3. Clement Mok
4. Roy Lichtenstein
5. Lester Beall
6. Jennifer Hill
7. Joe Duffy
8. Meredith Davis
9. Walter Landor
10. Doyald Young
11. James Cross
12. Not Cot
13. Packaging of the World
14. Lovely Packaging
15. Dieline
16. Mary Ellen Harden

Earl Grey said...

From Jamie C.
1. Vincent van Gogh
2. Artemesia Gentilleschi
3. Dorothea Lange
4. Mary Cassatt
5. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
6. Jan Vermeer
7. Theodore Gericault
8. Salvador Dali
9. Claude Monet

Unknown said...

1. M.C. Echer
2. Dali
3. Arthur Racham
4. Da Vinci
5. Pixar Animatino
6. Brunelleschi
7. Martin Waugh's (liquid sculpture)
8. Notcot
9. Graphic-Exchange
10. How Magazine
11.... I fail, I am an Internet kid.

Prof. Darrell Kincer said...

1. Ralph Eugene Meatyard
2. Andre Kertesz
3. Richard Avedon
4. Brett Weston (not Edward)
5. Michael Kenna
9. Elliott Erwitt
6. Brian Eno
7. Erik Satie
8. Miles Davis
10. Stefen Sagmeister
11. Massimo Vignelli
12. David Carson
13. Frank Lloyd Wright
14. Frank Ghery
15. Josef Albers
(16.) Wes Anderson

Mexifem said...

These are great! I love how different the lists are. I'm going to have to look up some of these people/firms.

GC::VA said...

I would have to go with
1)Ann Hamilton
2)Max Dean and Raffaello D'Andrea
3)Gregor Schneider
4)Yves Klein
5)the arts guys
6)Tara Donovan
7)Janine Antoni
8)Paul Mccarthy
9)Barry Moser
10) Matthew Barney
11)Robert Mueller
12)Arthur Ganson
13)Yann Black
14)Odd Nerdrum
15)Philip Sanders

HDfoto said...

1 Frank Lloyd Wright
2 Frank Gehry
3 Manet 
4 Monet
5 Renior
6 Turner
7 Annie Libovitz
8 Richard Avedon
9 Caravaggio
10 Paul Delaroche (the execution of lady jane grey)
11 Ancient Greek sculptors
12 Shepard Fairey
13 Andy Warhol
14 Maya Lin 
15 Daniel/Darrell/Boris 

dl said...

1.caspar david friedrich
2. Ansel Adams
3. Gustave Le Grey
4. Duchamp
5. Andy Goldsworthy
6. Gregory Crewdson
7. Eliel Saarinen
8. Charles and Ray Eames
9. Kim Keever
10. Martin and Munoz
11. Nina Katchadourian
12. Walead Beshty
13. Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
14. David Hilliard
15. Myoung Ho Lee

Earl Grey said...

from JONATHAN R., class of 2007
1)Andy Warhol
2)Marcel Duchamp
3)Piet Mondrian
4)Michelangelo
5)Louise Bourgeois
6)Caravggio
7)Yasumasa Morimura
8)Bernini
9)Robert Mapplethorpe
10)Jasper Johns
11)Alphonse Mucha
12)Pablo Picasso
13)Robert Rauchenberg
14)Bruce Nauman
15)Claude Monet

Prof. Darrell Kincer said...

HDfoto, you are too kind.