5 interesting artists from the Top 100 best ranked in 2022: Why them?
My selection today includes a colorful mix of artists to watch out for if you want to sharpen your eye for investing. The list I refer to is on Artfacts.net which is great for keeping up to date with the world’s highest-level art trends. The site uses a well-designed algorithm that incorporates data on art price trends, exhibitions, and popularity to assess artists.
№99 in the world is Austrian Hermann Nitsch. Born in 1938, Nitsch is still active today (!) and is quickly climbing up the rankings as we speak. Nitsch is all about the taboo, ritualistic approaches, suffering, and existentialism, which you’ll recognize from aggressive paint splatters (oh, and blood too).
February 19 — March 19, 2011 // Picture from Mike Weiss Gallery.
He’s considered one of the most luminous Austrian painters and representatives of Viennese Actionism.
If you’ve never heard of Viennese Actionism, prepare yourself before you look it up, as it tends to catch you by surprise. Don’t be alarmed though, it’s important to acknowledge that Viennese Actionism as a movement was incredibly influential in the 60s and 70s and that artists associated with such movements don’t usually disappear from the most-wanted lists (wink).
We can see that Nitsch still has an authentic appeal today and is in great demand on the market as the accomplished rebellious artist that he is.
№50 on the list is Martin Kippenberger. In his extraordinary 20-year career, he’s explored many art forms — painting, sculpture, installations, photography, books, music, and more. Some of his unconventional installations fetch over $20 million at auction today, and almost as a rule, the realized price of his works exceeds the estimated price. Never having to hide his addiction and drug problems, he grasped the artistic questions of the late 20th century and translated them into complex communication structures like few other artists of his generation. Not to mention his exquisite sense of humor.
Olafur Eliasson takes on the №32 and is certainly one of the names you have likely heard of, even if you’re are a total art novice. Eliasson is ever so elegant and playful contemporary artist dealing with global issues and activism.
Eliasson’s iconic installations include “The Weather Project” (2003) and “Ice Watch” (2014, 2015, 2018). The latter was created in collaboration with geologist Minik Rosing and involved transporting huge blocks of ice that had broken away from Greenland to the city centers of Paris, London, and Copenhagen. The giant blocks could be touched, licked, hugged, and watched melting by the public.
Studio Olafur Eliasson
Photo: Jens Zieh
I dare say that his trademark is that he never does anything half-baked. For example, he worked with a color chemist to analyze seven works of art by the English artist J.M.W. Turner, creating pieces for each that distill Turner’s use of light and color. Fascinating, if you ask me.
German contemporary artist Rosemarie Trockel is №17 on the list, making her one of three female artists in the top 20. She emerged in the 1970s in a male-dominated artistic society and became one of the most influential European artists with her gentle approach to feminism, patriarchy, and sexuality.
Although her art is sometimes described as inspired by Joseph Beuys (who’s #4 on the list), I find a completely fresh direction in her art that is unlike Beuys. Her most famous pieces include machine knitted fabrics stretched across a canvas as well as various studies of the texture of knitted fabrics.
The knitted paintings were a response to the male-dominated art world. She challenged the patriarchy by using female-associated resources and techniques and focusing on something as forgotten as a craft.
129.5 x 149.9 cm
Pop art, mass media, politics, capitalism, LGBT+, flashy oeuvre, — can you guess who №1 is on the list?
America’s most famous artist — Andy Warhol.
So much can be said about Warhol and his art, and yet he often presented himself as a simple, charismatic and naive personality.
A true American spirit and an absolute visionary of today’s oh-so-trendy digital art, Warhol was one of the most influential art personalities of the 20th century.
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it." — A.Warhol
Nevertheless, it’s fair to note that all artists have created important and less important works of art in their careers. This means that you shouldn't hasten to buy any Warhol artwork at hand if you expect a high investment return on your purchase.
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Co-founder of ArtAdvance, Kotryna Tribusinaite, 2021
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