10 most amazing and spontaneous artists

When it comes to art, opinions are divided - some people don't understand it at all and have no idea why someone would pay so much for it, while others actually see what the artist is trying to convey. Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. However, when it comes to the artists themselves, opinion is not very divided. It is pretty much generally accepted that artists are eccentric, and the more quirky a person is, the better the art. Top 10 eccentric artists in charge of art.

1. Tracy Emin

A contemporary artist to start with, and one who took off in a prominent place in 1997, presenting a tent with the names of her lovers on the side, titled "everyone I ever slept with in 1963-1995" (she was born in 1960, so the first few years hopefully the connection was platonic). Two years later, her bed, complete with dirty linen, was exhibited at the Tate, and Emin was nominated for a Turner Prize. Emin is unlikely to dispute the claims that she is a little eccentric in life, as well as in art - her biography was called "Strangeland", which in translation is "foreign land" and has the line "here I am, and .... crazy, anorexic alcoholic - a childless, beautiful woman. " Anyone who has seen her drunk swearing at TV appearances will probably agree that she is a little crazy. However, she made a career out of eccentricity and is now Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy in London.

2. Pablo Picasso

From secondhand panties to a pioneer in contemporary art. Picasso has an instantly recognizable style and was one of the founders of Cubism. He also had a tumultuous personal life, with many adventures during two marriages, some with women 40 years his junior. He was also an outspoken communist who received the Stalin Peace Prize and painted a portrait of the Russian leader, much to the discomfort of Leon Trotsky, Picasso's friend who was exiled by Stalin. Picasso was not afraid to push the "framework" both artistically and socially and, it seemed, was not afraid of anyone, even answering the Gestapo in occupied Paris. I wonder how today's artists would have coped with being interrogated by the Nazis?

3. Banksy

Of all the individuals on the list, there is only one that we know almost nothing about. Banksy is the street name for a graffiti artist whose work is now generating thousands of pounds for fortunate business owners whose walls have been painted by an outcast artist. But he has no public identity, and only the most sketchy details are known about the person behind the art. They say he came from Bristol and was a butcher trainee in his youth, but even that is speculation. In 2010, he was nominated for an Oscar for Exiting the Gift Shop and in a rare public statement said, "This is a big surprise ... I disagree with the concept of awards ceremonies, but I'm willing to make an exception for who I am. nominated. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me. " The artist is so whimsical that he hasn't even stepped forward to claim fame ... he really is an eccentric.

4. Marcel Duchamp

Now for a more traditional kind of eccentricity - making art out of toilets. French artist Marcel Duchamp specialized in a kind of 'found art', showing off a bicycle wheel, a snow shovel, a bottle rack and most famously a urinal. He called it his' ready-made 'and described his theory:' My idea was to choose an object that would not attract me either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my gaze, you see. "So, mediocre and disordered objects - if you look around your house, you may find that you have a few readymades too. Duchamp is also dismissive referred to his fellow artists, describing their work as “art of the retina” - art designed only to please the eye on a superficial level.

5. Damien Hirst

Speaking of things that are aesthetically uncomfortable, here is Damien Hirst, the creator of the cut and pickled cow. “Mother and Child Separated” featured a cow and calf split in half and bathed in formalin, and it first appeared on screen in 1993. Dead animals and fluid retention are a running theme in Hirst's work, encompassing works such as a whole tiger shark in a case and a rotting cow head surrounded by flies (which was banned for fear of making people puke). He may seem like a morbid and depressed character, but in the 90s he still found time to be an ironic misogynist, directing Blur's "Country House" video, which consisted mostly of big-breasted women running around in short skirts. And the less he says about his own musical career in Fat Less, the better ...

6. Van Gogh

Some of the most influential and talented artists were also tormented internally. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist whose works are now considered classics, but at one time he was largely underestimated and often suffered from bouts of mental illness. Shortly before his apparent suicide, he fell into a bout of depression that only got up when he was painting, and then he went into a state of ecstasy. The ups and downs in depression pushed him to take extreme action before, after an altercation with fellow artist Paul Gauguin in 1888, he cut off parts of his ear and was sent to hospital in critical condition. Gauguin visited Van Gogh and said: "His condition is worse, he wants to sleep with patients, chase nurses and wash himself in a coal bucket." He died two years later, leaving behind more than 2,000 works.

7. Gilbert Proesh and George Passmore

In fact, the two artists who together form one creative collective, Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore, met at St. Martin's School of Art in 1967, and it was "love at first sight" (according to some reports, they later got married). They are conservative in both dress and political views and have expressed their love for Margaret Thatcher. Previously, all this went against the politics of traditional artists of socialism and anti-politician sentiments. People around them are also confronted with their rather basic choice of subject matter, with bodily fluids on display and racial words printed on photographs of Asian people who live in the East End of London with a couple. Somehow it has earned them many awards and honorary doctorates from leading universities. Racism and filth made it appear.

8. Andy Warhol

From time to time, art merges with the rest of pop culture to create something wonderful. This is what happened in the 1960s, when Andy Warhol's factory collective brought art and music together in a cultural explosion that produced not only Warhol's famous pop art paintings from soup cans, but groups such as the Velvet Underground and some 75 films. most of which were too harsh for a general release. At the center of it all was Warhol, the artistic genius and controller of everyone around him. He was a mass of controversy - a Catholic virgin who created works of homosexual eroticism too explicit to be shown in galleries. He was a difficult person, despite this many were with him, and few approached him. He died in 1987, but the legend lives on.

9. Michelangelo

Another artist who may have been gay, Michelangelo is the epitome of a temperamental artist. He slept with his shoes, rarely ate or drank, and was not overly interested in personal hygiene until it became necessary. For him, art was everything. He lived incredibly modestly, saying, "No matter how rich I was, I have always lived like a poor man," and paid his students a paltry salary. However, his dedication paid off, his ceiling became the Sistine Chapel, considered one of the greatest works of art of all time, along with his sculpture of David. He just doesn't look like the simplest person.

10. Salvador Dali

Finally, a master of surrealism, who, like Warhol, was also endowed with a host of controversies. A devout Catholic, he declared himself an agnostic. He was a communist, but sided with the fascist leader Franco in the Spanish Civil War, painting portraits of his granddaughter and sending him letters of support. He traveled everywhere with his pet ocelot, even aboard the ship, and once presented Mia Farrow with a dead mouse in a bottle. He is said to have paid restaurant bills by drawing photographs on receipts and holding fans' pens whenever he signed autographs. His melting clock and Lobster phones have made him a name as an artist, but it is his eccentricity outside of his work that ensures he will be remembered forever. And he will be quite pleased - after all, this is the person who said: "Every morning after waking up, I experience the highest pleasure: to be Salvador Dali." Modest? No. Inspiring? An affirmative answer. Genius? Maybe. Unforgettable? Certainly.