Famous contemporary artists and their paintings. What paintings are trending now? Total cost of work - $301 million

Is modern technology in demand now? Russian art? Auctioneers say no. According to Daria Chernenko, a specialist in Russian art auction house Bonhams, no more than two or three works by young people are sold at its auction per year Russian artists:

“Such works are purchased mainly for interior decoration, and much less often for private collections.”

The manager of the Moscow office of one of the international auction companies assures that “The market is not developing in this direction, there are no purchases, except for one-time gallery purchases.”

Gallery owners counter: interest in contemporary art has not disappeared. "According to the art environment Lately there is a running joke that there is no market. Of course, it exists,” insists Sergei Gridchin, owner of the center contemporary art Gridchinhall. “It’s just that 2015 is a year of uncertainty for many markets, and the art market is one of them.”

According to the founder of the Pop/off/art gallery, Sergei Popov, if a few years ago it was possible not to follow young artists, now “The weather is set by those who are 25 years old”, and there are already collectors buying their works.

Time and again the market will tell who is right. In the meantime, Forbes represents the most promising young artists who are little known to the general public, but are already of interest to Russian and foreign museums, exhibitions and collectors.

The selection of authors took place in two stages.

At first based on responses from exhibition and art award curators, gallerists, museum directors and famous artists a list of names was compiled (we only set an age limit - born in 1982 and younger). At this stage, we found out how many galleries work with the named young artists on an ongoing basis, whether they participated in exhibitions in Russia and abroad, and whether they received prizes and awards. As a result, a long list was formed, which included 35 people.

At the second stage We selected the 15 most successful of them. They were assessed according to the following criteria: personal exhibitions in Russia and abroad, participation in large group Russian and international exhibitions and biennales, presence of works in collections famous museums and galleries and in private collections, the presence of Russian and international awards.

The finalists included the artists with the maximum amount of points awarded. Each of them works in several genres, combining, for example, installations and painting, video and so-called objects ( art forms outside of specific styles).

It is noteworthy that only two finalists have art education in its traditional sense.

Year of birth: 1987

Where I'm from: Tashkent

Education:“Free Workshops” at MMSI, Institute of Contemporary Art

Genres: painting

Number of works: about 200

Of these in the collections: about 50

Collections: meeting of the director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Simon Mraz, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Center cultural communications Klaipeda (Lithuania), Victoria Foundation, Stella Art Foundation, Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, Bela Horvath collection (Budapest)

Venice Biennale (2014), Jewish Museum Vienna (2015)

Cost of work: from €100

“Actually, I want my work to be seen by schoolchildren and children, so that a generation of new people will grow up, together with whom we will build a world with a different type of relationship, where there will be no everyday exploitation and humiliation.”

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Year of birth: 1984

Where I'm from: Voronezh

Education: Voronezh State University (Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology)

Genres: installation, video, graphics

Number of works: 70

Of these in the collections: 40

Collections: Voronezh regional literary museum, private Russian and foreign collections

Azoikum (Büro für kulturelle Übersetzungen, Leipzig, Germany, 2014)

Cost of work: €800–2000

“I have a long production cycle: I collect plants, make herbarium specimens, identify them, draw. The process lasts for months, and I get along with them like friends. And it can be hard to part with friends. On the other hand, I'm glad someone else has them."

Dmitry Morozov (::vtol::)

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Year of birth: 1986

Where I'm from: Moscow

Education: Russian State University for the Humanities (Faculty of Art History)

Genres: hybrid art

Number of works: 70

Of these in the collections: 6

Collections: National Center for Contemporary Art, Museum of Science and Industry, St. Petersburg Museum of Sound, Russian and foreign private collections

Group foreign exhibitions: Ars Electronica (Linz, 2015), CTM festival (Berlin, 2015); The Emperor's New Aesthetic, Emmanuel Gallery (Denver, 2014); Cyberfest (Berlin, 2013); Rhythm Assignment, Bonnefanten museum (Maastricht, 2013); Bent festival, Tank Theater (New York, 2010)

Cost of work:€10 000–30 000

“Sale is secondary for me. For many years I worked without attention from the market, and it did not upset me. The artistic elite and critics are very conservative in terms of accepting new styles and forms."

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Year of birth: 1983

Where I'm from: Kemerovo

Education: St. Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Industry named after. A. L. Stieglitz (faculty monumental art, department of artistic textiles)

Genres: installation, object, video, graphics

Number of works: about 150

Of these in the collections: about 70

Collections: Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Pori Art Museum, Kiasma Museum (Finland), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, private Russian and foreign collections

Personal foreign exhibitions:“Incubator”, Galerie Forsblom (Helsinki, 2011); “My Room”, Galerie Forsblom (Helsinki, 2012); "Hello World!", Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea (Milan, 2013)

Cost of work:€1000–10 000

“The day before my first personal exhibition at Winzavod, we came into the hall and found that all the balls in the installation were tangled, and there was a dead rat in the threads. It turned out that the local cat was chasing a rat and decided to play with balls at the same time. We put the work in order, and the cat appeared again - after the opening of the exhibition.”

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Year of birth: 1985

Where I'm from: Moscow

Education: Higher School of Economics (Bachelor of Sociology, Master of Philosophical Anthropology)

Genres: procession (endless projects), objects, sculpture, painting, graphics, photography

Number of works: 15 projects, about 1000 artifacts

Of these in the collections: about 70 artifacts

Collections: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gazprombank collection, Victoria Foundation collection, private Russian collections

Group foreign exhibitions:“Highway of Enthusiasts”, parallel program of the XIII Architectural Biennale (Venice, 2012), Kiev Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015)

Cost of work:€1000–5000 (artifacts)

“Artists are actually infringed on the rights to their own work. You're dependent on one-off sales, and it's hard to make complex, weird work that will be interesting twenty years from now. More in-demand works give me the opportunity to create experimental ones. It is very important".

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Year of birth: 1986

Where I'm from: Moscow

Education: State Academic University of Humanities (Faculty of Political Science), Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia named after. Rodchenko

Genres: photography, video, sculpture

Number of works: 10 art projects

Of these in the collections: prints of 5 art projects

Collections: Multimedia Art Museum, galleries HilgerNEXT, Anzenberger, OstLicht, private collections in Russia, Austria, Germany, France, Japan

Foreign exhibitions: Kunst Im Tunnel (Dusseldorf, 2012), HilgerNext gallery (Vienna, 2014)

Cost of work: from €200

“My projects touch on the theme of conflict, both personal, social and political. Politics is business big people, she is beyond romance and morality. I explore how it affects life common man. One way or another, you find yourself drawn into some process against your will.”

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Year of birth: 1984

Where I'm from: Moscow

Education: art school at the Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry named after. S. G. Stroganova

Genres: performance, sculpture

Number of works: about 100

Of these in the collections: about 10

Collections: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, private collections

Personal foreign exhibitions: PSIONICS, Federica Chizzoni gallery (Milan, 2014)

Cost of work:€1000–15 000

"One of the most happy moments my life was watching the installers lift my nine-meter sculpture to the ceiling. This is an incomparable delight, from which you become dependent, a delight from the realization of a dream, from a scale, from a beauty that you did not even expect.”

If you think that all great artists are in the past, then you have no idea how wrong you are. In this article you will learn about the most famous and talented artists of our time. And, believe me, their works will remain in your memory no less deeply than the works of maestros from past eras.

Wojciech Babski

Wojciech Babski is a contemporary Polish artist. He completed his studies at the Silesian Polytechnic Institute, but associated himself with. Lately he has been painting mainly women. Focuses on the expression of emotions, strives to obtain the greatest possible effect using simple means.

Loves color, but often uses shades of black and gray to achieve best experience. Not afraid to experiment with different new techniques. Recently, he has been gaining increasing popularity abroad, mainly in the UK, where he successfully sells his works, which can already be found in many private collections. In addition to art, he is interested in cosmology and philosophy. Listens to jazz. Currently lives and works in Katowice.

Warren Chang

Warren Chang is a contemporary American artist. Born in 1957 and raised in Monterey, California, he graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1981, where he received a BFA. Over the next two decades he worked as an illustrator for various companies in California and New York before embarking on a career as a professional artist in 2009.

His realistic paintings can be divided into two main categories: biographical interior paintings and paintings depicting people at work. His interest in this style of painting dates back to the work of the 16th century artist Johannes Vermeer, and extends to subjects, self-portraits, portraits of family members, friends, students, studio interiors, classrooms and homes. His goal is to create mood and emotion in his realistic paintings through the manipulation of light and the use of muted colors.

Chang became famous after switching to traditional fine arts. Over the past 12 years, he has earned numerous awards and honors, the most prestigious of which is the Master Signature from the Oil Painters of America, the largest oil painting community in the United States. Only one person out of 50 is given the opportunity to receive this award. Warren currently lives in Monterey and works in his studio, and he also teaches (known as a talented teacher) at the San Francisco Academy of Art.

Aurelio Bruni

Aurelio Bruni – Italian artist. Born in Blair, October 15, 1955. He received a diploma in scenography from the Institute of Art in Spoleto. As an artist, he is self-taught, as he independently “built a house of knowledge” on the foundation laid in school. He began painting in oils at the age of 19. Currently lives and works in Umbria.

Bruni's early paintings are rooted in surrealism, but over time he begins to focus on the proximity of lyrical romanticism and symbolism, enhancing this combination with the exquisite sophistication and purity of his characters. Animated and inanimate objects acquire equal dignity and look almost hyper-realistic, but at the same time they do not hide behind a curtain, but allow you to see the essence of your soul. Versatility and sophistication, sensuality and loneliness, thoughtfulness and fruitfulness are the spirit of Aurelio Bruni, nourished by the splendor of art and the harmony of music.

Aleksander Balos

Alkasander Balos is a contemporary Polish artist specializing in oil painting. Born in 1970 in Gliwice, Poland, but since 1989 he has lived and worked in the USA, in Shasta, California.

As a child, he studied art under the guidance of his father Jan, a self-taught artist and sculptor, so he early age, artistic activity received full support from both parents. In 1989, at the age of eighteen, Balos left Poland for the United States, where he school teacher and part-time artist Katie Gaggliardi encouraged Alkasander to enroll in art school. Balos then received a full scholarship to the University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he studied painting with philosophy professor Harry Rosin.

After graduating in 1995 with a bachelor's degree, Balos moved to Chicago to attend school visual arts, whose methods are based on the work of Jacques-Louis David. Figurative realism and portrait painting were most Balos' works in the 90s and early 2000s. Today Balos uses human figure in order to highlight the features and show the shortcomings of human existence, without offering any solutions.

The subject compositions of his paintings are intended to be independently interpreted by the viewer, only then will the paintings acquire their true temporal and subjective meaning. In 2005, the artist moved to Northern California, since then the subject matter of his work has expanded significantly and now includes freer painting methods, including abstraction and various multimedia styles that help express ideas and ideals of existence through painting.

Alyssa Monks

Alyssa Monks is a contemporary American artist. Born in 1977, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. I began to be interested in painting when I was still a child. Studied at the New School in New York and State University Montclair and graduated from Boston College in 1999 with a B.A. At the same time she studied painting at the academy Lorenzo Medici in Florence.

Then she continued her studies in the master's degree program at the New York Academy of Art, in the department of Figurative Art, graduating in 2001. She graduated from Fullerton College in 2006. For some time she lectured at universities and educational institutions throughout the country, she taught painting at the New York Academy of Art, as well as Montclair State University and Lyme Academy of Art College.

“Using filters such as glass, vinyl, water and steam, I distort human body. These filters allow you to create large areas of abstract design, with islands of color peeking through - parts of the human body.

My paintings change modern look to the already established, traditional poses and gestures of bathing women. They could tell an attentive viewer a lot about such seemingly self-evident things as the benefits of swimming, dancing, and so on. My characters are pressed against the glass of the shower window, distorting own body, realizing that they thereby influence the notorious male gaze on a naked woman. Thick layers of paint are mixed to imitate glass, steam, water and flesh from afar. However, up close, the amazing physical properties oil paint. By experimenting with layers of paint and color, I find a point where abstract brushstrokes become something else.

When I first started painting the human body, I was immediately fascinated and even obsessed with it and believed that I had to make my paintings as realistic as possible. I “professed” realism until it began to unravel and reveal contradictions in itself. I am now exploring the possibilities and potential of a style of painting where representational painting and abstraction meet – if both styles can coexist at the same moment in time, I will do so.”

Antonio Finelli

Italian artist – “ Time Observer” – Antonio Finelli was born on February 23, 1985. Currently lives and works in Italy between Rome and Campobasso. His works have been exhibited in several galleries in Italy and abroad: Rome, Florence, Novara, Genoa, Palermo, Istanbul, Ankara, New York, and can also be found in private and public collections.

Pencil drawings " Time Observer"Antonio Finelli takes us on an eternal journey through inner world human temporality and the associated scrupulous analysis of this world, the main element of which is the passage through time and the traces it makes on the skin.

Finelli paints portraits of people of any age, gender and nationality, whose facial expressions indicate passage through time, and the artist also hopes to find evidence of the mercilessness of time on the bodies of his characters. Antonio defines his works by one thing, common name: “Self-portrait”, because in his pencil drawings he not only depicts a person, but allows the viewer to contemplate the real results of the passage of time inside a person.

Flaminia Carloni

Flaminia Carloni is a 37-year-old Italian artist, the daughter of a diplomat. She has three children. She lived in Rome for twelve years, and for three years in England and France. She received a degree in art history from the BD School of Art. Then she received a diploma as an art restorer. Before finding her calling and devoting herself entirely to painting, she worked as a journalist, colorist, designer, and actress.

Flaminia's passion for painting arose in childhood. Her main medium is oil because she loves to “coiffer la pate” and also play with the material. She recognized a similar technique in the works of artist Pascal Torua. Flaminia is inspired by great masters of painting such as Balthus, Hopper, and François Legrand, as well as various artistic movements: street art, Chinese realism, surrealism and Renaissance realism. Her favorite artist Caravaggio. Her dream is to discover the therapeutic power of art.

Denis Chernov

Denis Chernov is a talented Ukrainian artist, born in 1978 in Sambir, Lviv region, Ukraine. After graduating from the Kharkov Art School in 1998, he remained in Kharkov, where he currently lives and works. He also studied in Kharkov State Academy design and arts, department of graphics, graduated in 2004.

He regularly participates in art exhibitions, on this moment more than sixty of them took place, both in Ukraine and abroad. Most of Denis Chernov's works are kept in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, England, Spain, Greece, France, USA, Canada and Japan. Some of the works were sold at Christie's.

Denis works in a wide range of graphic and painting techniques. Pencil drawings are one of his most favorite painting methods, a list of his topics pencil drawings is also very diverse, he paints landscapes, portraits, nudes, genre compositions, book illustrations, literary and historical reconstructions and fantasies.

On the pages of our website you can get acquainted with the biographies of famous and outstanding artists modernity and past. We will not ignore those whose names went unnoticed, but who left their mark in the world of fine art.

Of course, first of all, we will talk about the life and work of painters, graphic artists, and sculptors of the Republic of Bashkortostan. But it's hard to judge creativity modern masters without knowing the history. Perhaps we will repeat ourselves, but one way or another we will try to study the work of artists as closely as possible.

S ergey Alexandrovich Litvinov born on August 15, 1925 in the distant taiga village of Kartashevo, Siberian Territory of the RSFSR. The head of the Litvinov family worked as a prospector in the gold mines. Since childhood, Sergei had a penchant for drawing. In his youth, a great misfortune happened to him - he was left without a leg. In 1940, the family moved to the Urals. With the beginning of the war, my father went to the front, and very soon a funeral came for him. Sergei was forced to start an independent life early.

In 1949 he graduated from the architectural department of the Sverdlovsk Construction College. Assigned to Ufa, where he worked as an architect designing industrial and civil construction facilities in St. Petersburg-5. Then he moved to the workshops of the Bashkir branch of the Art Fund of the RSFSR (later - the Bashkir Creative and Production Plant of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Belarus), where he studied decorative design a number of public buildings.

Let us say a few words about Vrubel’s family and his childhood and youth. On his father's side, his ancestors were Russified immigrants from Prussian Poland. My grandfather rose to important ranks in the Astrakhan province. My father was also a military man and traveled a lot for official purposes. Mikhail Alexandrovich was born in the center of Siberia, in the town of Omsk on March 5, 1856. My maternal grandfather was a relative of the Decembrist N.V. Basargina. He held a high position, the first in the region, and was the Astrakhan Governor-General. Therefore, Vrubel’s parents met and got married in Astrakhan. The mother, however, soon died. The second wife, Elizaveta Khristinovna Vrubel, a pianist, a kind, gentle, educated woman, had an extraordinary influence on the upbringing of little Misha.

Mikhail Vrubel studied at the St. Petersburg gymnasium, then at Odessa; He studied willingly and loved to draw since childhood. Then he entered St. Petersburg University at the Faculty of Law. Then there was service - at the insistence of my father, convinced that only a service, preferably a military, career could be a field for a real man. But the service did not satisfy the young lawyer, he was already completely absorbed in art and finally made the only possible irrevocable decision - to enter the Academy of Arts in the painting workshop of P.P. Chistyakova.

A ntoine Watteau (1684 – 1721) born in Valenciennes, a small town on the border of France and Flanders. The artist found himself in a period of crisis French history, the period of the regency, when its border town became part of Flanders. Watteau's teacher was little-known artist, theater decorator. When he was invited to create scenery for the Parisian opera in 1702, Watteau moved with him to Paris - a city of great opportunities for aspiring "morshans", because an art market was already forming there.

In Paris, Watteau entered the workshop of another minor painter, who painted market pictures on stream: fair images of religious subjects of consumer quality, similar to popular prints. Watteau excelled in his craft and created masterly pictures on a quick fix. At the same time, Watteau worked in the shop of one of the antique dealers on the Old Bridge, where he made copies of paintings by old masters and sold them for little money.

Despite the fact that the income of modern artists is difficult to calculate, since the creative people live according to the laws of the free, and do not write down their income in income organizers: there is a lot of money - and it’s very wonderful, not at all - there will be tomorrow. However, a list of the richest artists exists; if you happen to be much richer, but you are not included in the list, complain on our Facebook page and we will include you.

So, the richest in the world is the Englishman Damien Hirst, he has accumulated about one billion dollars, having made his fortune by demonstrating the process of death. He created a truly great work of art: he made a series of art objects from the corpses of cows, and also put a tiger shark in a formaldehyde solution and presented it at his personal exhibition in London. True, recently his popularity has declined somewhat, apparently the exalted public has become fairly fed up with manifestations of creative freedom in the form of dissected bodies, and the genius has not yet come up with anything new. At one time, somewhere in the year 2007, a shocking amateur fatal outcome sold his exhibition called “Superstition” for 25 million.

Jeff Koons lives in Pennsylvania, USA. A favorite theme of his work is sculptures of small and large shapes with clearly dubious artistic value. Looking at his successful compatriot, Andy Warhol, D. Koons envied the glory of soup cans and decided that he was no worse, and immediately put his works of art. Today Koons is the president of the huge corporation Jeff Koons LLC, which is located in New York and employs about 150 people. They embody in real world the images that Koons creates on the computer.

Takashi Murakami is an artist from Japan. He is interested in design, fashion and anime. It is impossible to say how he made his capital, but his 2007-2008 exhibitions, held in major metropolises of the world “Murakami”, were visited by not a few, not a lot, but 30 million citizens. Just a year and a half ago, Takashi Murakami sold his sculpture “My Lonesome Cowboy” for $16 million. Murakami was even exhibited in Palace of Versailles In France, as you know, they don’t show crap there. It was Murakami who came up with a psychedelic boy with a huge white-toothed smile and giant bulging eyes. Then he invented a pink, cross-eyed girlfriend for him. Nervous Japanese bear cubs were also his idea. I hesitate to call Murakami’s talents dubious.

Brice Marden was born in 1939, he is the “oldest” of the rich artists. The veteran made money from Urban graphics and calligraphy. Today his works with incomprehensible scribbles go for 11 million dollars.

Julian Schnabel was born in 1951 in New York. In total, he was exhibited more than five thousand times in all major cities. Millions come to look at his artistically designed piles of crap, cement and tattered linoleum. In addition, Julian Schnabel makes films. He doesn’t show garbage in the movies, but tells people about poets and artists in a cultural manner.

Anish Kapoor moved to England from Bombay, where he was born in 1972. He makes sculptures and installations and has become famous for painting everything around the sculpture in different colors, pokes mirrors and all sorts of textures around to show that his work is part of something known to him alone. He made a fortune from this original concept and his works are in all modern art museums.

Jasper Johns used to create three-dimensional installations, but now he casts everything in bronze: from a teapot to a calculator. Everything that he “cast” is bought for crazy money by both collectors and museums of modern art.

David painted the walls of Mark Zuckerberg and the then unknown aspiring genius offered him either money or shares of Facebook. The artist chose shares and as a result his fortune is already more than one hundred million, and his works cost more than three thousand euros.

Andrew earned 210 million, and all because he is friends with the right guys - Arab sheikhs. He pushed 125 of his own works Prince Zaled bin Sultan for only 17 million pounds sterling.

Chunya earned little - only 23 million Euros. All because I spent ten years drawing touching green dogs. Designated dogs Green colour, which you can’t look at without tears, they enriched him.