Top 10 Most Famous Female Painters Today

hello dear readers and subscribers throughout art history we've had some tremendous female painters from Artemisia gentileshi to Angelica Kaufman or more recently Helm of Clint and Frida Kahlo but who are the most important female painters today well let's find out for this video and with all our top lists we have used the analytical research tool of artifacts in which we can rank artists using objective analytical data and career facts such as exhibitions and around institutions or featuring and important collections please note that the artists that also work in different media were also eligible for this list however we have made sure that with every selected artist the painting plays an important role in their practice [Music] born in 1971 in Camden New Jersey and currently working and residing in Brooklyn New York McLean Thomas is a contemporary artist working in painting Collage Video photography and installation drawing inspiration from art history and popular culture she depicts a contemporary vision of female sexuality marked by Beauty and Power the American Artist creates complex portraits and Landscapes examining identity and gender in which distinction between object and subject reality and fiction or representational abstract fade slowly but surely by doing so Mika and Thomas revisits the representation of women in art and popular culture born in 1931 in London where the artist continues to work in two sides Bridget Riley is one of the leading figures for the op art movement combining hard Edge abstraction with optical illusion and the suggestion of movement influenced by fluxes and kinetic Arts Riley created the geometric patterns exclusively in black and white before introducing color into her painterly practice in the late 1960s she composes colorful shapes across her canvas resulting in vibrant tableaus internationally loaded for their Ingenuity Beauty and suggestion of subtle movements as a result Ryan is one of her generation's most important abstract painters as she represented Great Britain during the Venice biennale and was the first woman to be awarded the international prize for painting [Music] born in 1970 in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and currently working and residing in New York Julie Madrid was a contemporary painter who is best known for her abstract pictures influenced by Urban Landscapes social behavior the cycle geography of space and the Contemporary experience lauded for her complex compositions and exhilarating Mark making meheritu often includes photographic images from broadcast media depicting conflicts or social injustice inspired by the socio-political events but also by literature and music the Ethiopian American Artist transforms these visual narratives into gestural abstraction provoking thoughts and reflection born in 1978 in Paris and currently working and resigning between Berlin and New York City is a multi-disciplinary artist working in film painting drawing sculpture and installation however at the core of her practice one encounters references from literature psychoanalysis and cultural anthropology but also self-help social media and the banality of everyday life and it will questions the meaning of being a private individual and simultaneously a global subject contemplating our globalized connection receiving information and incentives from everywhere at any time resulting in an over-stimulated world and persona to calculate the nature of her new conceptual sculptures and installations is juxtaposed with her essentially painted and expressive abstract works on canvas born in 1961 in Freiburg Germany and currently working and residing in Berlin Katarina gross is one of the most influential artists of her generation marked by abstraction and an expansive painterly practice for gross painting as a screen between the viewer and the artists a screen one can analyze from different angles to revisit the artist's thought processes she is best known for her in-situ spray paintings in which color is set free explosively albeit onto a canvas and interior a landscape or exterior architecture this site responsiveness of her work has increased over the past few years approaching almost all matter as a paintery surface by doing so this natural relationship between the paint the surface and the context of the surface has resulted in ingenious often Monumental site-specific works born in 1949 in Basel and currently working and residing and stompous switzerlands Miriam come is a contemporary figurative painter who repositions and reassociates the traditional practice with new artistic disciplines such as performance and installation by doing so she developed her own painterly practice in which she aims to reduce the influence of the mind and creative process painting blindfolded or naked on her Studio floor allowing performance to enter the painterly process she also Revisited the traditional Studio practice of painter bringing painting into the public space with artistic actions and murals is fascinated by how the depicted body and anybody from genitalia to the body of a house can inhabit and radiate a physical condition through her brushwork a natural result of this is her sensual visual language the subjective use of color and the profound Hamilton character of painting foreign in 1963 in London and working and resigning between English Capital Margate and the south of France Tracy Emin is arguably one of the best known artists from her generation internationally lauded for her tremendously versatile effort ranging from notorious ready-made installations to Neon sculptures and textile embroidery to expressive figurative paintings Emin deals with her personal experiences and Trauma and the utmost Frank intimate raw and genuine manner from her sexual partners to dealing with sickness loss and grief from her chaotic teenage years to her pregnancies and abortions or any words of the artist how honesty can be the most beautiful thing no matter how painful it is to look at born in 1951 in Sumi Japan and currently working and residing between cologne and Berlin lake oikamora is a Japanese Swiss artist working in painting and sculpture personal experiences and intimate stories have defined her artistic practice from her early years in Japan to passages in Spain and Switzerland this lifelong journey is transformed into an intimate body of Works depicting Landscapes human figures and amorphous forms in her paintings ikomona creates an enigmatic World populated by hybrids almost mythological entities balancing between the human and the natural [Music] born in 1953 in Cape Town South Africa and working and residing in Amsterdam the Netherlands Marina Dumas is regarded as one of the most influential painters of her time loaded for her stylized figures and intriguing portraits inspiration from her post-modern archival fever revisiting second-hand images to evoke first-hand emotions she has a vast Archive of images encompassing various sources such as mus media historical materials and even personal snapshots of her friends and family with her characteristic fluid use of lying and delicate transparency in color marlina Dumont really contextualizes her archival subjects resulting in ambiguous images in which the distinction between the public and the private dissolves born in 1929 in motsumoto Japan and currently working at residing in Tokyo kusama sits at the very top of our listicle and is arguably one of the most influential artists of the Contemporary era because someone's multi-disciplinary practices marked by her iconic motifs such as the pumpkin and above all the polka dots kusama suffers from hallucinations experiencing industry sensations of infinity which is directly reflected in her Earth think of her mirrored Infinity rooms and especially in painting her Infinity Knits fusing abstract expressionism with minimalism in the 1960s in New York and remaining relevant and trending up to this very day who's almost rise to fame predominantly occurred in New York City before checking herself in at the psychiatric facility in Japan where she obsessively continues to create her Arts by doing so art becomes a natural form of therapy and the necessity for treatment is the direct incentive for her Arts it is safe to say Yara kusama continues to inspire thousands as this painting represented by these 10 top-notch contemporary artists pushing the medium of painting to New Perspectives New Heights and new experiences for more top-notch contemporary female painters make sure to reach the complete article in which we present a top 20 of the most famous female painters today including some other significant and terrific artists such as Jenny Seville or Lynette thank you so much for tuning in today feel free to watch our video on the top 20 most famous painters today next support us on patreon and please consider subscribing to stay posted for more Contemporary Arts bye

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Sun May 21 2023