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Notable Contemporary Artists (1970 – present)

If you wish to be generally familiar with art history, here is a short list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
Abakanowicz, Magdalena
 N7255 .P63
1930 PolishSocialist RealismSculpture
Fiber Art
Agora
Abakans
War Games
Basquiat, Jean-Michel
 N6537 .B233
19601988AmericanNeo-expressionism
Primitivism
PaintingScull
Profit I
Hirst, Damien1965 BritishYoung British ArtistsPainting
Installation Art
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
For the Love of God
Spot Paintings
Koons, Jeff1955 AmericanNeo-popSculpture
Installation Art
Balloon Dog (Orange)
Puppy
Noble, Paul1963 Britishoften labeled
Young British Artists
Sculpture
Drawing
Nobson Newtown
The Doley Game
Noland, Kenneth
 ND237 .N594
19242010AmericanColor FieldPaintingBeginnings
Mysteries: Infanta
Price, Elizabeth1966 British Installation ArtThe Woolworths Choir of 1979
The User Group Disco
Salle, David
 
1952 AmericanNeo-expressionism
Postmodernism
Painting
Printmaking
Muscular Paper
Mingus in Mexico
Stella, Frank
 ND237 .S683
1936 AmericanMinimalism
Modernism
Painting
Printmaking
Harran II
Scarlatti K Series