Wheres Parla and Adam Neate. Before conducting a pole maybe ask a few people who their top tens are and then poll from there. I am certain Parla and Neate would make the top ten.

Very true. No Keith Haring, Barry McGee, OS Gemeos, ESPO........Parla......the list goes on and on.

Picasso and Braque.

I don't know if Haring belongs here... His natural company would be Warhol & Basquiat...

Does Hirst belong here? Parla definitely does... Takashi Murakami does... Probably make a good case for OS Gemeos too...

Some of the others on the list...meh. I doubt they will have the 'staying power' needed for another 10-20 years.

KAWS vs Murakami discussion deserves it's own thread! =)

I'll reserve my comment until then.

-M

Dash tlp nick walker Logan hicks copyright asbestos blek prefab hush titifreak slinkachu Jamie Reid meggs seen and there's a shitload more!

Depends on which art history books will be available Manty. Untitled, Beyond The Street, Stencil Graffiti, Graffiti Woman, etc. There are hundreds of books which have documented artists who produce street work and sell it commercially. If those books are still around in future generations, then hundreds of artists will be documented and preserved in history. Maybe in 30 years there will be some ponce (a modern Brian Sewell) who attempts to select a couple of artists as significant contributors amongst their peer group. However, I think that market prices will be the deciding factor. Banksy and any other artist who has benefited from heavy investment will probably find themselves supported in auction houses and being presented in major museums.

Not sure that many artists like to be pigeon holed as street artists in the way that others have enjoyed the benefit of other labels, such as the YBAs. Eine, Retna and countless other 'street' artists sell work through a host of mediums from shopping bag designs to movie adverts. It is too simplistic to squeeze them into a single category. Jobbing artists might be more appropriate.

Where does Hirst sit in all this? Hirst sits on a throne telling talented 'minions' how he'd like his ideas to be translated onto canvases.

This chap

The classic documentary of Picasso painting on glass from 1950. Mesmerizing. 'Visite à Picasso' (20min b&w):

is.gd/YhQMNt

Sam3, Blu, Dran (remember from Christmas?) etc etc.

Stencil might be a technique of the current scene but is it, in itself, indicative of ability and longevity?

hey man what about jeff koons and cindy sherman?

i am sorry...i was under the influence of some gnarly stuff

I maybe wrong but Sam3, Blu and Dran don't use stencils do they? They all seem pretty freehand to me.

As for Dran's rise to fame, I think your statement jj maybe shows that you dont look much further than Pow for your street artist info, rather than anything else. Dran has been around for fair while prior to getting the treatment last xmas.

(on another note, I'd have no idea why anyone would think C215 is the 'best stencillist' when his piece's for the most part nearly always show that he should have used more layers)

I think 11 artists are ever entered in art history and will stay :

- Banksy (UK) --> the most famous
- Shepard Fairey (USA) --> the most influent artist
- Kaws (USA) --> He has the best galleries' network.
- Invader (FR) --> the best concept
- Swoon (USA) --> Artworks in the MOMA
- Os Gemeos (BR) --> In the big collections.
- JR (FR) --> TED prize and big projects
- Faile (USA) --> In the big collections.
- Blu (IT) --> Maybe the most talentuous.
- Barry McGee (USA) --> Venise biennale, in all US museums.
- Futura (USA) --> The best graffiti artists.

One point is major : who is known and sold in all over the world ?
Who has or will have a major gallery ? Who is enter in the big Collections ? Who is sold at Christies and Sothebys ? Who is in all the major show in museum ?
Answer --> all these artists

There is a list with challengers, maybe one or two will join the first list, they are :
- Blek (FR)
- C215 (FR)
- Dran (FR)
- Dface (UK)
- Nick Walker (UK)
- Jose Parla (US)
- Seen (US)
- Quik (US)
- Crash (US)
- Eine (UK)
- Vhils (UK)
- Roa (BEL)

All the others are in a third list but have no chance to leave a mark in art history. The best they can do is to join the second list but never the first.

Haring, Basquiat are not in the same dimension. They are ever in art history.

my friend drymounted you are english i presume? i dont know why but for me dolk is a good artist but not very famous internationally.

i think invader2009 made a good analysis and i even wonder: are you franck the invader? i think you are. but i fully agree with point.

the topic is quite interesting i beleive as we are all convinced about the fact that our movement is the last one of the 20th century, and will be in the near future like the pop art movement nowadays.

so we all have to ask ourselves the question of who will stay.

me i am bying everyprints of shepard that i can grab on the bay for a reasonable price. i know he produce a lot but still it remains small money (100-400)

i make a bet on the future but i am sure that for followers it will be totally affordable.

anyway i missed banksy and i am too scared to try to get one with all the fakes around.

same for faile.

JR is way to expensive but the prints are kicking ass.
ben eine is a speculative bubble.
invader is the best concept and it even make itself accepted by almost all the most reticent people.

and i already told you that i think that C215 has that unique talent that you will all see when you have your eyes opened.