Can you name 3 great modern artists?

Define modern .

Arvo Part
Heinrich Gorecki
Bela Bartok

Laurie Anderson
H. R. Giger
Banksy

lurve banksy. Blu is pretty awesome too

Picasso, Van Gogh, Seurat.

Ansel Adams, Maya Angelou and Georgia O’Keeffe.

I too vote for Georgia O’Keefe, also Andrew Wyeth and Morris Louis, his Point of Tranquility is one of my favorites, I can look at it forever and be mesmerized.

Some of my favs:

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Robert Rauschenberg
Kiki Smith
Lee Bontecou
Kara Walker

But depending on how you define modern they might not count. I’m not sure how any of them are typically categorized in art history. Rauschenburg was post Abstract Expressionism, but I don’t know the name of the movement he was part of.

These are a few of my favorites:

Joan Miro

Alexander Calder

Wayne Thiebaud

Richard Diebenkorn

Milton Avery

Harry Sternberg

Millard Sheets

Belle Baranceanu

Henry Moore

Deborah Butterfield

Charley Harper

Andrew Wyeth

Donal Hord

@Kardamom – how did I forget Calder??? One of my favorites too!

I forgot Egon Schiele and Aubrey Beardsley. Shame on me. Maybe not modern but totally badass.

Salvidor Dali
Pablo Picasso
Elvis Presley

Alan Streets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZihIuDlgI

Jean Michael-Basquiat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTT9XYesnw

Leslie Dill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9KCgZyRfY

Hilario Picasso Pedrigal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-NkQ-7roaE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7K-KNNLYK4&feature=related

Andrew Lloyd Weber
Benjamin Britten
Paul Simon

Pascal Amblard
Ron Francis
John Pugh

My most favoritest artist is my husband though. There are a lot of kind of outdated examples of his work on his website. But I might be slightly biased. :)

Not clear whether you are defining as modern or if you are looking for only visual artists or other media as well.

Francis Bacon and two others.

Edit: “Not clear what you are defining as modern…”

So, the original description suggested that this question was just a test to see how aware we were of modern art and artists. Now that the details have been changed, I would like to request clarification on both “modern” and “artist.”

For my original answer, I stuck to visual and performing artists who are alive and still working just in case “modern” meant “contemporary” and not “between the years 1860 and 1970” (as it might be defined in a history of art class). If either category was intended more broadly, I would be interested to know before answering the new version of the question.

I Love Alfred(Alex) Gockel Makes me happy
Sometimes like Peter Max When I’m in a funky mood.
Csaba Markus has faces that haunt me.

Ron English
Shepard Fairey
Mark Ryden.

The list goes on and on and on and on. There are more than plenty.

You can reference their work by using Google. All three have their own website. Cheers.