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Originally Posted by Adam the Ant
This was a very tough list to make due to the subjective and "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" nature of the subject but here is my list of greatest artists of all time:
4. Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cezanne - I have to take them as a group - collectively called the "Post-Impressionists". They were the bridge between "traditional art" and "modern art". Vincent ignited Expressionism and Fauvism. Gaugin ignited "Symbolism" and Cezanne ignited "Cubism".
There is a good article in the recent
Smithsonian (March, 2011) about Gauguin that is interesting.
All human societies engage in art and produce artists and the subject is vast and the territory expansive, especially from a history perspective. That you have nothing from Asia or the pre-columbian New World or from more ancient time periods shows a rather narrow vision. And art can cover everything from a dinner plate to a building.
-Zeno