Artist Lists
Fave-Five-style Artist List for Sculpture Courses
(Intended to be only a glimpse into researching related movements and genres, not at all comprehensive, rather, actually quite subjective and limited to my historical knowledge, and thus the “Fave-Five” moniker.)
Formalism/Abstract Modernism:
Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, David Smith, Isamu Noguchi
Conceptual Art:
Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Sol le Witt, Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke
Minimalism:
Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin
Public Art:
Richard Serra, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Anish Kapor, Claus Oldenburg
Land Art:
Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Nancy Holt, Michael Heizer, James Turrell
Performance Art:
Marina Abramoic, Ana Mendieta, Vito Acconci, Allan Kaprow, Chris Burden
Installation Art:
Eva Hesse, Ann Hamilton, Andrea Zittel, Cai Guo-Qiang, Olafur Eliasson
Figurative Art:
Juan Munoz, Ron Mueck, Folkert De Jong, Kiki Smith, Patricia Piccinini
Additional Must-Knows:
Martin Puryear, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hurst, Gabriel Orozco, Bill Viola, Rachel Whiteread, Beth Cavener Stichter, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Los Carpinteros, Art Guys, Fred Wilson, Simparc, Alice Aycock, Wolfgang Laib, Agnes Denes, Adrian Piper, Bruce Nauman, Tom Otterness, Denis Openheim, Andrea Fraser, David Nash, Anthony Gormely, Pepon Osorio, Mathew Ritchie, Matthew Barney, Jan Fabre, Barbara Kruger, Tim Hawkinson, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, Xu Bing, and many, many more.
