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thanks much to tom for jump-starting my artists page. basically, he used his main page as a template for mine. i will be filling in some older work with installation shots from shows. more recent work will follow too.
But now Mr. Chihuly is in the midst of a hard-edged legal fight in federal court here over the distinctiveness of his creations and, more fundamentally, who owns artistic expression in the glass art world.
Mr. Chihuly has sued two glass blowers, including a longtime collaborator, for copyright infringement, accusing them of imitating his signature lopsided creations, and other designs inspired by the sea.
"About 99 percent of the ocean would be wide open," Mr. Chihuly said in an interview. "Look, all I'm trying to do is to prevent somebody from copying me directly."
The glass blowers say that Mr. Chihuly is trying to control entire forms, shapes and colors and that his brand does not extend to ancient and evolving techniques derived from the natural world.
"Just because he was inspired by the sea does not mean that no one else can use the sea to make glass art," said Bryan Rubino, the former acolyte named in the suit who worked for Mr. Chihuly as a contractor or employee for 14 years. "If anything, Mother Nature should be suing Dale Chihuly."
The suit, rare in art circles, offers a sometimes unflattering glimpse at how high-powered commercial artists like Mr. Chihuly work. The two glass blowers say that he has very little to do with much of the art, and that he sometimes buys objects and puts the Chihuly name on them, a contention that Mr. Chihuly strongly denies.
Marcel Duchamp has emerged as the most influential artist in the UK. The French conceptualist who famously placed a urinal in a New York gallery in 1917 and declared “this is art”, has come top of our survey of students from 11 of the leading art schools in the UK. We spoke to over 320 students and asked them which three artists, living or dead, had inspired them most and have had the greatest influence on their work. Using their responses we compiled a ranking of the artists who have had the most impact on the next generation of British practitioners (right). Duchamp is followed by other 20th-century giants Picasso, Bacon, and Matisse.
The British painter Lucian Freud, 83, who comes fifth, is the highest ranking living artist. The only other living artists to make it into the top ten are Tracey Emin, 42, in joint eighth place with Salvador Dalí (her contemporary, Damien Hirst, comes in at number 19), and Bruce Nauman, 64, at number nine, whose work is currently on show at Tate Liverpool (until 28 August).
The list
1 Marcel Duchamp
2 Pablo Picasso
3 Francis Bacon
4 Henri Matisse
5 Lucian Freud
6 Philip Guston
7 Egon Schiele
8= Salvador Dalí
Tracey Emin
9= Joseph Beuys
Bruce Nauman
10 Gustav Klimt
11 Alberto Giacometti
12 Andy Warhol
13 Paula Rego
14=Jenny Saville
Luc Tuymans
15=Martin Creed
16=Louise Bourgeois
David Hockney
17= Andy Goldsworthy
Claude Monet
Vincent Van Gogh
18= Frida Kahlo
Gerhard Richter
19= Jean-Michel Basquiat
Damien Hirst
Piet Mondrian
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
20= Eva Hesse
Mike Kelley
David Shrigley
21= Marlene Dumas
Paul McCarthy
22= Francis Alys
Caravaggio
Anselm Kiefer
Edvard Munch
23= Felix Gonzales-Torres
Donald Judd
Anish Kapoor
24=Matthew Barney
Patrick Caulfield
Cézanne
Chuck Close
Olafur Eliasson
Agnes Martin
Henry Moore
25=Joseph Cornell
Martin Parr
26= Banksy
Cornelia Parker
27= Goya
Rebecca Horn
Kathe Kollwitz
Leonardo Da Vinci
Edouard Manet
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Jackson Pollock
Robert Rauschenberg Pipilotti Rist
James Turrell
Gillian Wearing
Rachel Whiteread
Christopher Wool
28=Sybil Andrews
Vija Celmins
El Greco
Jeff Koons
Sol LeWitt
Michelangelo
Grayson Perry
Antoni Tŕpies
Jack Vettriano
29= Alexander Calder
Caspar David Friedrich
Barbara Hepworth
Richard Long
Rembrandt
Cy Twombly
Velázquez
Bill Viola
30= David Batchelor
Sophie Calle
Lygia Clark
Peter Doig
Peter Fischli and
David Weiss
Max Ernst
Eric Fischl
Patrick Heron
William Hogarth
Wassily Kandinsky
Ian Kiaer
Georgia O’Keeffe
Tony Oursler
Fiona Rae
Mark Rothko
Gregor Schneider
Tino Sehgal
Robert Smithson
Wolfgang Tillmans
J.M.W. Turner
Keith Tyson
Jeff Wall
31= Diane Arbus
Umberto Boccioni
Peter Chang
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Willem De Kooning
William Eggleston
Ilya Kabakov
Kasimir Malevich
Man Ray
Mike Nelson
Jockum Nordström
Blinky Palermo
Cindy Sherman
Sir Stanley Spencer
Jessica Stockholder
Vermeer
Edouard Vuillard
Rebecca Warren
Richard Wentworth
Whistler
Richard Wright
32= Josef Albers
Helena Almeida
Craigie Aitchison
Bobby Baker
Luis Barragan
Bernini
Tony Bevan
William Blake
Ross Bleckner
David Bomberg
Martin Boyce
Boyle Family
Marcel Broodthaers
Fred Brown
Glenn Brown
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Maurizio Cattelan
Helen Chadwick
Marc Chagall
Hussein Chalayan
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Victor Cirefice
Melanie Counsell
Raoul De Keyser
Jeremy Deller
Thomas Demand
Richard Diebenkorn
Stan Douglas
Albrecht Dürer
Joan Eardley
Denise Findlay
Urs Fischer
Hamish Fulton
Isa Genzken
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs
Michel Gondry
Patrick Gould
Angela Grossman Giovanni Antonio
Guardi
Frans Hals
John Hilliard
Robert Hodgins
Howard
Hodgkin
Dan Holdsworth
Carsten Holler
Roni Horn
Robert Irwin
Arne Jacobsen
Thomas Joshua
Cooper
William Kentridge
Sophie Kerr
Jim Lambie
Michael Landy
Wyndham Lewis
Magritte
Christian Marclay
Roberto Matta
Gordon Matta-Clark
Ana Mendieta
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Jeremy Millar
Alexandra Mir
Joan Miró
Shigeru Miyamoto
William Morris
Yoshimoto Nara
David Nash
Nolde, Emil
Nurminen, Maria
Opie, Julian
Oppenheim, Meret
Orozco, Gabriel
Packer, Jayne
Patterson, Richard
Paxton, Adam
Perryman, Jane
Piper, Adrian
Pomar, Julio
Portinari, Candido
Rayson, David
Rhodes, Zandra
Rodin, Auguste
Roversi, Paolo
Ruscha, Ed
Ryman, Robert
Santiago, Sierra
Scarpa, Carla
Schiaparelli, Elsa
Schorr, Collier
Serrano, Andres
Steadman, Ralph
Tanada, Koji
Tao, Shi
Tiravanija, Rirkrit
Uglow, Ewan
Van Dyck
Venelman, Tom
Vionnet, Madeleine
von Hausswollf, Annika
Wenders, Wim
West, Franz
Woodman, Francesca
33= Abts, Tomma
Acconci, Vito
Adams, Ansel
Allington, Edward
Almond, Darren
Alto, Alva
Amer, Ghada
Anderson, Wes
Applebroog, Ida
Augustine Ingres, Jean
Ayres, Gillian
Baek, Nam-Jun
Bailey, Christopher
Balla, Giacomo
Barlow, Phyllida
Battista Alberti, Leon
Bausch, Pina
Beardsley, Aubrey
Benner, Guy
Blahnik, Manolo
Bock, John
Bosch, Hieronymus
Boucher, Francois
Brancusi, Constantin
Braque, Georges
Broadhead, Caroline
Broumas, Olga
Brownjohn, Robert
Bruegel, Pieter
Burri, Alberto
Burroughs, William
Cage, John
Cage, Johne
Cardiff, Janet
Carrington, Leonora
Catling, Brian
Chain, Kai
Charlton, Alan
Christ, Jesus
Clemente, Franceco
Cocteau, Jean
Coldstream, William
Cole, Nathan
Coleman, James
Condo, George
Cook, Nigel
Cooper Clarke, John
Copley, Singleton
Cran, Chris
Crewdson, Gregory
Csorgo, Attila
Currin, John
Dalwood, Dexter
Davenport, Ian
David, Jacques-Louis
Davis, Tom
de Chirico, Giorgio
de la Rocha, Zack
Deakin, John
Dean, Tacita
Degas, Edgar
Dibbets, Jan
Dot Zero, One
Duncan, Isidora
Durham, Jimmie
E. Kano, Francis
Ellis, Francis
Ende, Edgar
Ernst, Max
Evju, Kristian
Flavin, Dan
Flemming, Peter
Fletcher, Alan
Franks, Tony
Friedman, Tom L
Frink, Elisabeth
Gabo, Naum
Gehry, Frank
Gober, Robert
Gormley, Anthony
Gould, Glenn
Graham, Rodney
Gross, Katarina
Gursky, Andreas
Hamilton, Anna
Hamilton, Richard
Hardstaff, Johnny
Hart, Tony
Hatoum, Mona
Havrv, Mankiei
Hawkinson, Tim
Heron, Susanna
Herzog & De Meuron
Hiller, Susan
Hoch, Hannah
Hogg, Dorothy
Holzer, Jenny
Hongtu, Zhang
Hopper, Edward
Horowitz, Jonathan
Hoyland, Francis
Jacir, Emily
James, Gillray
John, Gwen
Johns, Jasper
Jones, Zebedee
Jonze, Spike
Joyce, James
Judd, Donald
Junepiak, Nam
Junger, Herman
Kankerua, Marso
Kaprow, Allan
Katchadourian, Nina
Kawakubo, Rei
Kawamata, Tadashi
Keats, Ezra Jack
Kelly, Ellsworth
Kelly, Mary
Kelly, Patrick
Kilimnik, Karen
Kippenberger, Martin
Kirkeby, Per
Klaus, Jack
Klein, Frans
Knapp, Stefan
Kokosalaki, Sophia
Kosuth, Joseph
Kripe, Tony
Krystufek, Elke
Larbalestier, Simon
Larner, Liz
Lasker, Jonathan
Latham, John
Leapman, Edwina
Lee, Helen
Leibowitz, Annie
Lewis, Anna
Lichenstein, Roy
Livick, Steven
London, Jack
Lopez, Antonio
Lorrain, Claude
Lynch, Bronagh
MacLau, Jackson
Majerus, Michel
Mallarme, Stephane
Manovich, Lev
Marcks, Gerhard
Marden, Brice
Martins, Karel
McCullin, Don
McCurry, Steve
McLean, Bruce
Merz, Mario
Metzger, Gustav
Mies van der Rohe, Lugwig
Milhazes, Beatriz
Milroy, Lisa
Morandi, Giorgio
Morris, Sarah
Morrissey, Dean
Mueck, Ron
Nedjar, Michael
Neudecker, Mariele
Newman, Randy
Nimki, Jacques
Oehlen, Albert
Ofili, Chris
Ohlen, Albert
Oiustraa, Rineke
Ortega, Damien
Otto Jorgensen, Hans
Pacovska, Kveta
Pane, Gina
Paolozzi, Eduardo
Parr, Martin
Part, Arvo
Pasmore, Victor
Paul Rubens, Peter
Pernice, Manfred
Pettibon, Raymond
Phillips, Tom
Piper, John
Poiret, Paul
Polke, Sigmar
Prince, Richard
Ramans, Mircha
Rauch, Neo
Rauschenberg, Robert
Redon, Odilon
Reinhardt, Ad
Rhodia, Simon
Richter, Daniel
Richter, Michael
Ritchie, Matthew
Rosler, Martha
Sacks, Shelley
Salcedo, Doris
Sandback, Fred
Sasaki, Kanako
Saunders, Nina
Schwitters, Kurt
Scully, Sean
Self, Colin
Sendak, Maurice
Serra, Richard
Service, Valium
Sheath, Christine
Sierra, Santiago
Sigismondi, Floria
Simmonds, Paul
Sinclair, Ross
Smith, Kiki
Spira, Rupert
Starling, Simon
Steen Hansen, Thorgei
Sternfeld, Joel
Stezaker, John
Taylor-Wood, Sam
Tilson, Joe
Tohaku, Hasegawa
Toulouse Lautrec, Henri
Turk, Gavin
Turriani, Michele
Turtle, Richard
Verhoeven, Julie
Voita, Bernard
von Trier, Lars
Watteau, Jean-Antonie
Weischer, Matthias
Williamson, Hazel
Wilson, Dieger
Winstanley, John
Yorke, Thom