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The Times Top 200 Artists

The Times Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century to Now, created in association with the Saatchi Gallery. Sixteen weeks after being invited to have your say, the votes are in - all 1,461,523 of them - it is revealed who you think are the most significant 200 painters, sculptors, photographers, video and installation artists working since 1900.

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#	Artist list	Votes
1	Pablo Picasso	21587
2	Paul Cezanne	21098
3	Gustav Klimt	20823
4	Claude Monet	20684
5	Marcel Duchamp	20647
6	Henri Matisse	17096
7	Jackson Pollock	17051
8	Andy Warhol	17047
9	Willem De Kooning	17042
10	Piet Mondrian	17028
11	Paul Gauguin	17027
12	Francis Bacon	17018
13	Robert Rauschenberg	16956
14	Georges Braque	16788
15	Wassily Kandinsky	16055
16	Constantin Brancusi	14224
17	Kasimir Malevich	13609
18	Jasper Johns	12988
19	Frida Kahlo	12940
20	Martin Kippenberger	12784
21	Paul Klee	12750
22	Egon Schiele	12696
23	Donald Judd	12613
24	Bruce Nauman	12517
25	Alberto Giacometti	12098
26	Salvador Dalí	11496
27	Auguste Rodin	8989
28	Mark Rothko	8951
29	Edward Hopper	8918
30	Lucian Freud	8897
31	Richard Serra	8858
32	Rene Magritte	8837
33	David Hockney	8787
34	Philip Guston	8786
35	Henri Cartier-Bresson	8779
36	Pierre Bonnard	8778
37	Jean-Michel Basquiat	8746
38	Max Ernst	8737
39	Diane Arbus	8733
40	Georgia O'Keeffe	8714
41	Cy Twombly	8708
42	Max Beckmann	8690
43	Barnett Newman	8643
44	Giorgio De Chirico	8462
45	Roy Lichtenstein	7441
46	Edvard Munch	5080
47	Pierre Auguste Renoir	5063
48	Man Ray	5050
49	Henry Moore	5045
50	Cindy Sherman	5041
51	Jeff Koons	5028
52	Tracey Emin	4961
53	Damien Hirst	4960
54	Yves Klein	4948
55	Henri Rousseau	4944
56	Chaim Soutine	4927
57	Arshile Gorky	4926
58	Amedeo Modigliani	4924
59	Umberto Boccioni	4918
60	Jean Dubuffet	4910
61	Eva Hesse	4908
62	Edouard Vuillard	4899
63	Carl Andre	4898
64	Juan Gris	4898
65	Lucio Fontana	4896
66	Franz Kline	4894
67	David Smith	4842
68	Joseph Beuys	4480
69	Alexander Calder	3241
70	Louise Bourgeois	3240
71	Marc Chagall	3224
72	Gerhard Richter	3123
73	Balthus	3090
74	Joan Miro	3087
75	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	3084
76	Frank Stella	3078
77	Georg Baselitz	3048
78	Francis Picabia	3046
79	Jenny Saville	3034
80	Dan Flavin	3024
81	Alfred Stieglitz	3017
82	Anselm Kiefer	3010
83	Matthew Barney	3005
84	George Grosz	2990
85	Bernd And Hilla Becher	2980
86	Sigmar Polke	2966
87	Brice Marden	2947
88	Maurizio Cattelan	2940
89	Sol LeWitt	2926
90	Chuck Close	2915
91	Edward Weston	2899
92	Joseph Cornell	2893
93	Karel Appel	2890
94	Bridget Riley	2885
95	Alexander Archipenko	2884
96	Anthony Caro	2879
97	Richard Hamilton	2878
98	Clyfford Still	2864
99	Luc Tuymans	2862
100	Claes Oldenburg	2843
101	Eduardo Paolozzi	2839
102	Frank Auerbach	2836
103	Dinos and Jake Chapman	2827
104	Marlene Dumas	2827
105	Antoni Tapies	2825
106	Giorgio Morandi	2824
107	Walker Evans	2823
108	Nan Goldin	2819
109	Robert Frank	2818
110	Georges Rouault	2818
111	Jean Arp	2817
112	August Sander	2809
113	James Rosenquist	2808
114	Andreas Gursky	2804
115	Eugene Atget	2802
116	Jeff Wall	2790
117	Ellsworth Kelly	2789
118	Bill Brandt	2787
119	Christo And Jeanne Claude	2782
120	Howard Hodgkin	2781
121	Josef Albers	2781
122	Piero Manzoni	2777
123	Agnes Martin	2771
124	Anish Kapoor	2768
125	L.S. Lowry	2761
126	Robert Motherwell	2754
127	Robert Delaunay	2747
128	Stuart Davis	2742
129	Ed Ruscha	2731
130	Gilbert & George	2729
131	Stanley Spencer	2720
132	James Ensor	2719
133	Fernand Leger	2718
134	Brassai (Gyula Halasz)	2717
135	Alexander Rodchenko	2715
136	Robert Ryman	2711
137	Ad Reinhardt	2709
138	Hans Bellmer	2700
139	Isa Genzken	2699
140	Kees Van Dongen	2698
141	Weegee	2698
142	Paula Rego	2695
143	Thomas Hart Benton	2689
144	Hans Hofmann	2684
145	Vladimir Tatlin	2679
146	Odilon Redon	2653
147	George Segal	2619
148	Jorg Immendorff	2611
149	Robert Smithson	2435
150	Peter Doig	2324
151	Ed and Nancy Kienholz	2293
152	Richard Prince	2266
153	Ansel Adams	2262
154	Naum Gabo	2256
155	Diego Rivera	2239
156	Barbara Hepworth	2237
157	Nicolas De Stael	2237
158	Walter De Maria	2229
159	Felix Gonzalez-Torres	2228
160	Giacomo Balla	2225
161	Ben Nicholson	2221
162	Anthony Gormley	2218
163	Lyonel Feininger	2216
164	Emil Nolde	2213
165	Mark Wallinger	2211
166	Hermann Nitsch	2209
167	Paul Signac	2209
168	Jean Tinguely	2209
169	Kurt Schwitters	2209
170	Grayson Perry	2208
171	Julian Schnabel	2208
172	Raymond Duchamp-Villon	2208
173	Robert Gober	2208
174	Duane Hanson	2208
175	Richard Diebenkorn	2207
176	Alex Katz	2207
177	Alighiero E Boetti	2206
178	Henri Gaudier-Brzeska	2206
179	Laszlo Moholy-Nagy	2205
180	Jacques-Henri Lartigue	2205
181	Robert Morris	2205
182	Sarah Lucas	2204
183	Jannis Kounellis	2204
184	Chris Burden	2204
185	Otto Dix	2203
186	David Bomberg	2203
187	Fischli & Weiss	2203
188	Augustus John	2203
189	Marsden Hartley	2203
190	Takashi Murakami	2203
191	James Turrell	2202
192	Isamu Noguchi	2201
193	Robert Mangold	2201
194	John Chamberlain	2201
195	Charles Demuth	2200
196	John Currin	2200
197	Alberto Burri	2200
198	Arnulf Rainer	2200
199	David Salle	2200
200	Hiroshi Sugimoto	2199

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The Times Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century to Now

At first glance, the results of this poll may seem rather predictable — but the longer you look, the more telling the quirks and anomalies become. This is precisely its point. It’s not there to agree with. It is there to argue against.

Several artists would seem to be enormously overrated. What is Martin Kippenburger doing in the Top 20, rated above Rothko and Schiele and Klee? It feels like a blip — which is probably appropriate for a radical who likes to barge in irreverently. Frida Kahlo does not merit her top spot of 19. How can this solipsistic painting by-numbers-style recorder of her own misery be placed above Munch, with his otherworldly scream? She probably represents the woman’s vote. But then, why not put Louise Bourgeois far higher — that septuagenarian who, rummaging about in the rag-and-bone shop of the heart, has had so pervasive an influence on future generations?

Influence, perhaps, is not adequately reflected in this list. Andy Warhol, who stamped the patterns of postmodernism, comes only eighth when the delightful but pre-eminently decorative Gustav Klimt comes in third. Do we, at heart, not appreciate the conceptual? Do we prefer a nice painting to a muddle of ideas? Marcel Duchamp, the father of the conceptual, is rated only fifth — and Richard Hamilton and Gilbert and George, so profoundly influential on their peers, come in at 97 and 130. For the significance of their work, both should make the top quarter.

How do the British do? Francis Bacon, that impassioned outsider, misses making the Top Ten by only nine votes. After that, you have to wait until No 30 to find Lucian Freud, who attracts only half as many aficionados. But he is our first living British artist and his fellow contemporary, David Hockney, comes in close behind. They are the British Establishment and those impudent upstarts, the Brit pack, can’t knock them from their pedestals. Vote counts have halved by the time Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst come in neck and neck, within one vote of each other at 52 and 53 respectively. But our leading modernists, it would seem, have fallen behind. Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth limp home in the last quarter of the field, although Henry Moore, once a worldwide celebrity, manages to puff in at a just-about-respectable if not impressive No 49.

David Bomberg, the painter’s painter, is a completely underrated straggler. He is one of several real talents who have found themselves abandoned by a fickle world of fashion. Augustus John, once so suavely famous, is all but forgotten. And when it comes to more contemporary talents, surely, had this poll been taken five years ago, the fantastical avant-garde imagination of Matthew Barney would have ranked far more highly. And what happened to Walter de Maria, whose vast, zigzagging Lightning Field captures the electricity that flickers and forks across the New Mexican desert in the name of aesthetics, or James Turrell, who is transforming a volcanic crater into a vast observatory?

Painting is more appealing than sculpture, apparently. Constantin Brancusi, at 16, is the first sculptor to make the list, and although the emaciated striders of Alberto Giacometti are next, they only just manage to sneak into the first 25.

The results show a strong inclination towards the early modern, towards styles and experiments that have had a century or so to settle down through once-outraged sensibilities, forming the deep sediment of tastes. The Top Five artists have all been dead for at least 50 years. Jasper Johns, that great American flag-bearer for a now ubiquitous appropriation of populist iconography into art, is the first living artist on the list. He comes in at 19 — and he is almost an octogenarian (although admittedly his close friend and artistic peer Robert Rauschenberg, who comes in six places and nearly 4,000 votes higher, died only last year).

The big, bold, pioneering talents of an audacious postwar America are the most popular after those of the early modern Europe — which, again, is predictable. It is a preference that follows the art historical canon, which, as Europe disintegrated into two world wars, watched the artistic baton being carried — more often than not in the hands of refugees — to the States.

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The Times Top 200 Artists

The Times Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century to Now