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Who is the most famous visual artist right now?

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Who is the most famous visual artist right now?
Who the most famous visual artist is right now is difficult to determine, as many artists are well-known, and new artworks emerge continuously. However, several contemporary artists have become especially renowned during the 2020s. Among them are Banksy, KAWS, Kara Walker, Simone Leigh, Yayoi Kusama, Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. On 1stDibs, shop a wide range of contemporary art.
1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025
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Airplane in landscape - landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Jeroen Allart is part of his minimalist landscape and animal painting he did in his home country the Netherlands. 'A farm stands before you on the horizon....
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Westhampton /// Contemporary Thomas McKnight Screenprint Hamptons NY Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Thomas McKnight (American, 1941-) Title: "Westhampton" Portfolio: The Hamptons *Signed by McKnight in pencil lower right Year: 1987 Medium: Original Screenprint on soft-white Somerset paper Limited edition: 143/175, (there were also 40 artist's proofs) Printer: Willco Fine Art, New York, NY Publisher: Chalk & Vermilion, New York, NY Sheet size: 21" x 23" Image size: 16" x 18.13" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away in its original green silk boxed portfolio for decades. In mint condition Notes: Numbered by McKnight in pencil lower left. Comes from McKnight's 1987 "The Hamptons" portfolio of twelve screenprints. Artist's copyright stamp lower right on verso. Biography: Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist. He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris. After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the U. S. Army in South Korea. In 1972 McKnight left Time, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year. Throughout the 1980s McKnight’s art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular. In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clinton...
Category

1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Divine Nude No.19 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, body
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.19 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Coconut Boat Panorama, minimalist beach landscape, Vietnam - photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color photography. Several colorful coconut boats pulled up on a sandy beach with sparse green vegetation, calm sea, and cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink print as...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Island. Evolution, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A small wooded island rests in calm water. A colorful rock formation rises from the surface and reflects below. Warm yellows and oranges on the left shift to co...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Bent Palm, Beach, Florida, USA, black and white minimalist landscape - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape Photography. A leaning palm tree on a beach with calm waters and a distant shoreline. Archival pigment ink print as part of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

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