Dear readers and subscribers, today we take on the top 10 highest ranked artists of this year! As often - the ranking was created using the Artfacts algorithm ranking artists based upon objective data and career facts. What is your interpretation of this ranking? And who do you think should sit in top spot? Let us know here in the comments. Further, if you haven't already, make sure to watch our video on the top 7 emerging artists of 2022 next, encompassing the most exciting prospects of art world. Chat soon!

Please let a human being do the narrative, this just feels cold and un personal.

Thanks for showing. AWESOME !

I found this channel by chance. I followed the European art scene in the 1960s and 70's , I went to Kassel Dokumenta 5 and visited all the major galleries in Europe . I fear not much has changed since then! More of the same tendencies , but by different people. Here i rate RIchter and Baselitz. Anselm Kiefer should be in this line up.

Thank you so much for another amazing video!

Thanks for this video. 😊

I think that most importantly art is a reflection of how we see ourselves, an expression of what we find most interesting within. Some of its distressing, concerning and sometimes beautiful.

Now I know why modern art museums are always empty.

Very Nice.. Thank you.

Why are there only 'white' artists in the top 10?

These have been the top artists for a long time, not just 2022.

Nice video well-done

Anybody can do photos like that what's so great about them.

Thanks!

I believe that conceptual artists have broadened the definitions and parameters of art thereby increasing its' richness and expanding what art is. I enjoy a lot of traditional and realist art and I've seen a lot embarrassing and laughable conceptual art. But I have also been exposed to some incredibly original, inventive artistic minds that have made me rethink the notion of ideas.

This is the sort of work artists do if they are too lazy or unfocused to go thru the difficult and long process of develoing significant work. Very sophomoric.

Nice video

I could be a narrative for your channel. My voice and accent is wonderful. You can send me the scripts to read anytime

Again a well done video. Interesting content. Information needing some active consideration by the viewer. Is the narrator an actual human being or AI?

Does anyone know if there is a sibling channel that does similar videos but on classical subjects rather than whatever this is

The German bias in these CAI videos is rather funny.

I will be on the next one

Daniel Richter is more better than Gerhard Richter....his social psychological stories in symbioza with impressive colours are simply stunning...

climbing the pole of success

as one of the youth of the millennials how art is important in developing one's person

Contemporary Art is German, Austrian, US ... yeah, right !

Georg Baselitz, who says women can not be good artists and is a one trick pony. No thank you, I nearly do not know anybody who thinks he is still relevant. And why did you choose mainly Germans? Greetings from Germany

Number 9 and number 10 are entertaining jokes. Says a lot about CAI that you should consider them interesting, let alone important, let alone top 10 contemporary artists.

Wow, Just WTF ! Gerhard Richter Maybe but. !

This is how a dystopian society looks

Malevich's "Black Square" put an end to the depiction of reality and laid the foundations for the development of all contemporary art. Before the First World War, Hobbes' ideas reached their limit, as historians say, the spirit of war was simply in the air. 1911 Gioconda is stolen, the French blame the Germans for everything and France is going to declare war on Germany. The feeling of the inevitability of the approaching end was expressed by Malevich with his Black Square. In the future, his ideas will serve as an impetus for Victor Vasarely and the creation of a new style in Op-art art - on the basis of which all computer graphics are built. We are on the verge of discovering a quantum computer and light plays the main role here, so "Victory over black..." kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7KHa5ClyNK2eJ8.html is inevitable.

Contemporary art is as appealing as the robot 🤖 voice narrating this video; Symbolism happens.

but 2022 only just begun... what about only artists youve discovered in art schools.. under graduates... bit challenging???

Gilbert and George?

this line up

Sorry but you are not good informed cause you forgot the name of great artist Grigor Muradyan and her awesome work 360 degree.

Is the narrator AI or an actual human being? CAI consistently posts relevant art/artist information. Never simply making statements but always providing the supporting information for the statement. Again, always needing considerable thought for the viewer.You cannot just be a passive viewer.

It is a shame that the art world has come to this. This is not art.

money laundry sources!

How rediculous changes are happening in the art world when utterly nausiating works of demented artists (read conmen) are celleberated the world over. The real artists of the past must be rolling in pain in their graves. More than art, this is a vicious game of money that can be madfe by projecting some shit on a canvas as brillient work of art by a few self-appointed guardians of art world. It is pathetic to say theleast.

Thank you for the effort, but your selection is so chauvinistic it cannot be taken seriously. So seven of the top ten artists are German or Austrian? Richter in #1 is fine, but who outside the German-speaking world has heard of Ruff, Wurm, Trockel, Export? Baselitz and Sherman are icons from the past. Come on. Your algorithm needs a serious revision. Or maybe just scrap it and start afresh.

All of them building by lobby and money 💴 not from real talent

You ALL need musculist actors

I wouldn’t one of the pictures shown here in my home….total fraud

Je blöder und banaler ein Kunstwerk heute ist, desto größer ist die Chance erfolgreich zu werden. Das schlimme daran ist ja, dass nicht der Künstler selbst bestimmt, sondern dies alles von den Mega Galeristen und den Huren von Kuratoren ausgeht, die den Kunstmarkt und somit die Kunst selbst betsimmen. Also, das, was letztendlich der Betrachter zu sehen bekommt,- und was nicht! Wer also als Künstler heute damit seine Brötchen verdienen will, muss sich dem aktuellen Trend anpassen, (prostituieren) oder er geht unter. The more stupid and banal a work of art is today, the greater the chance it has of becoming successful. The bad thing about it is that it is not the artist himself who decides, but all of this comes from the mega gallery owners and the whores of curators who determine the art market and thus the art itself. So, what the viewer ultimately sees - and what not! So anyone who wants to make a living as an artist today has to adapt to the current trend (prostitute) or they'll go under.

all of these are old news. I want to know the 2022 New Contemporary artist

Wow no black contemporary artist...

Let me begin by telling you that when my brother was just starting school, he rebelled at the rules of spelling. Why did words have to be spelled in a particular way? Why couldn't he spell them as he wanted to spell them? He resented the rules and he resisted the authority of those who made them ! Keep this in mind. I think that Conceptual art originated with people who could not and would not do the difficult work required to become a 'traditional' artist. Can't master the necessary skills ? No knowledge of perspective? Can't draw? Don't want to have to learn color theory? Can't master composition? No knowledge of human anatomy? Can't render tonal values Can’t be bothered ? These are skills that you have to WORK to prefect. It’s difficult. It takes…..effort. But you want a fast track to the exalted position of "artist “. Here's how: belittle the importance of those skills and debase the notion that they are a prerequisite to creating art. Instead, create an art genre that you CAN do. A new genre. And let's call it Conceptual art. Conceptual artists claim that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are the main feature of their art. They can slap anything together and call it ''conceptual art'' confident that viewers will find SOMETHING to think about it no matter how banal or trivial the artist's concept! There is no way conceptual art pieces can be judged. The promoters of this art have attacked the motives and credibility of authorities and critics who might disparage the work. They have rejected museums and galleries as defining authorities. They reject the idea that art can be judged or criticized . All of this results in a decline in standards. And when you jettison standards, quality suffers. There really IS such a thing as BAD art ! We know this only because we have standards and criteria by which such things can be evaluated. It seems that conceptual art comes down to a basic idea: No one has the right or authority to make any judgements about art ! Art is anything you can get away with ! A whole new language has been created to give the work an air of legitimacy and gravitas. Conceptual art is 'sold' to the unwary public with ....."ArtSpeak". ArtSpeak is a unique assemblage of English words and phrases that the International Art world uses but which are devoid of meaning! Have you ever found yourself confronted by an art gallery’s description of an exhibition which seems completely indecipherable? Or an artist’s statement about their work which left you more confused than enlightened? You’re not alone. Here are examples of ArtSpeak: 'Works that probe the dialectic between innovations that seem to have been forgotten, the ruinous present state of projects once created amid great euphoria, and the present as an era of transitions and new beginnings.'' Or ''The exhibition reactivates his career-long investigation into the social mutations of desire and repression. But his earlier concerns with repression production--in the adolescent or in the family as a whole--give way to the vertiginous retrieval and wayward reinvention of mythical community and sub-cultural traditions.'' You will even find examples of ArtSpeak in this video. This language is meant to convince me that there is real substance to this drivel which is being passed off as art. I don't buy it. But plenty of people DO buy it. Not because they love the work. They are laying out enormous sums in the belief that their investment will bring them high returns in the future. One Jeff Koons conceptual piece is three basketballs suspended in a fish tank. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Ball_Total_Equilibrium_Tank_by_Jeff_Koons,_Tate_Liverpool.jpg Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim: “ This is an ultimate state of being. I wanted to play with people’s desires. They desire this equilibrium. They desire pre-birth. I was giving a definition of life and death. This is the eternal. This is what life is like, also, after death. Aspects of the eternal” Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!! It sold for $350,000. I wonder what it would have fetched without Koons' name attached to it. Or take the case of Martin Creed's ball of crumpled white copy paper. www.abebooks.com/signed/Work-sheet-paper-crumpled-ball-Creed/7404135374/bd He made almost 700 of them! Some sold for hundreds of dollars. Martin Creed, when asked during an interview how he would respond to those who say the crumpled paper ball isn’t art said : “ I wouldn’t call this art either. Who says, anyway, what’s good and what’s bad?” Interviewer: ''When confronted with conceptual art, we shouldn’t worry whether it’s art or not because no one really knows what art is.'' Is this what art has come to?? _________________________________ Something radical has happened to the art scene in the past 50 years. Cubism slid into non-representational art....what is often called Abstract. Abstract or non-representational art is a legitimate and often profound genre. But to many people, it appeared as if this new style had no structure, principles or standards of evaluation. It’s markings seemed random and arbitrary. Something that anyone could do. Any composition of blotches or scribbles was seen as “Abstract Art”. This was the slippery slope that led to the abandonment of standards in art. ''Art is what I say it is'' ....and lots of people jumped on the art bandwagon. Anyone can now be an artist. Anyone can now mount a show. And who is to say if it has value or not ? A tacit agreement has formed among critics, galleries, publications and auction houses to promote and celebrate certain artists and styles. Objects with no artistic merit are touted and praised . Their value increases with every magazine article, every exhibition in a prestigious gallery. And when they come up for auction, sometimes the auction houses will lend vast sums to a bidder so that it appears as if the work of the particular artist is increasing in value. The upward spiral begins and fortunes are made. And many are reluctant to declare that the Emperor is, in fact, naked lest they appear boorish unsophisticated Philistines ! This is what dominates the art market today. The love of money is the root of all evil. It has corrupted politics. It has corrupted sport. It has corrupted healthcare. It has corrupted religion. And now it has corrupted art. But, there is reason to hope. As much of the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans was kept alive through the Middle Ages in small pockets of learning and culture, ateliers have sprung up around the world that are devoted to preserving and handing down the traditional visual arts: drawing, painting and sculpting to each new generation. And when this craze for conceptual art has burned itself out and when visual art is no longer looked on as mere decoration and when schools that have dissolved their art programs want to reestablish them again, the world will find these skills preserved through the atelier movement.

And who decides who's in which rank. Artists have their own world to be appreciated, not to be ranked like race horses.

This has nothing to do with art. This is a program to make a person an idiot!

A disinteresting amount of these are narcissistic and gratuitous.

No Frank Auerbach. Is this a joke?

so white...

Can you make your list a bit more white please - nonsense small mindedness

I hate this so much.

If you isolate this works from the conceptual diarrea of the explanation ,this proposals, on their own they are worth absolutely nothing. Art is stripped of its real value , no sublimation whatsoever ever , creativity is replaced by an ocurrence and junk becomes a symbol of god knows what . It’s an insult to viewers intelligence .😅

Not a fan

This is a badly skewed representation. There are, however, excellent artists working--some of the best in history, but none of these people. And even the presentation is bad!

Emerging??? Most emerged decades ago! Richter is in his 80s!!! Maybe emerging to the mainstream but not the art world. Most are icons and have been for a long time. Furthermore, this video focuses on icon artist from Germany. There are other places that produce important art. And where is Keiffer??? Neo Rausch? Many others. Pathetic.

Yea art. This is an absolute embarrassment.

poor

So, contemporary art is basically by Germans? Get outta here.

Absurd video

Contemporary "art" is not for public, but for dealers. Completed froud and assault of real Arts

Just white artists in this group!

art is doomed

Most of this art, if not all, is absolute garbage created by lazy, uncreative people. Especially that one guy who smears the paint around on the canvas. Give me a break!

Y’all need some mental help

This is degenerate art.

Inspiration from the Devil...those artist struggle with demons. The art 'world' that promote such work... what drive them...blindness?

Let me preface this comment that I am a painter/sculptor. OH NO!! the first male artist appears to be a true artist. the first 2 woman most definitely are NOT artists. the second male artist is just a mess. Ruff, also not an artist. Tillmans not too bad. I have commented on George baselitz once from another video. I don't know why anyone would buy his work. I am very critical of photographers work and Cindy Sherman is sort of OK. Bruce Nauman, I definitely don't admire. Richter why?

still think" art "should be a mix of technique (whatever it is), feeling and reason. Not some random rich dude design put together by some workers or a copy of some other stuff or a huge capitalist investment with no meaning whatsoever and, worst of all, some kind of contemporary scream for help put as a transcendental experience. Baselitz and kentridge are probably the most interesting artist in that list, all the others are not that interesting. (feel free to disagree in comments)

but 2022 only just begun... what about only artists youve discovered in art schools.. under graduates... bit challenging???