Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Art/Art critics and theorists

The list is based on the sources listened in the references. It includes names of artists, art critics and theorists who have written significant contribution to the art theory; it includes also authors of texts/speeches which has a determinant influence in the art theory.


 * Paul Signac
 * Paul Gauguin
 * Sigmund Freud
 * Otto Weininger
 * Max Liebermann
 * Paul Cézanne
 * Rainer Maria Rilke
 * Maurice Denis
 * Julius Meier-Graefe
 * Giorgio de Chirico
 * August Endell
 * Albert Pinkham Ryder
 * André Derain
 * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
 * Wilhelm Worringer
 * Henri Matisse
 * Roger Fry
 * Wassily Kandinsky
 * Franz Marc
 * August Macke
 * Emil Nolde
 * Oscar Kokoschka
 * Alexander Shevchenko
 * Benedetto Croce
 * Clive Bell
 * Carl Einstein
 * Hermann Bahr
 * Hans Prinzhorn
 * Georg Simmel
 * Max Weber
 * Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
 * Henri Bergson
 * Alexander Blok
 * Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
 * Umberto Boccioni
 * Robert Delaunay
 * Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov
 * Fernand Léger
 * Percy Wyndham Lewis
 * Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
 * Ludwig Meidner
 * Jean Metzinger
 * Guillaume Apollinaire
 * Jacques Rivière
 * Albert Gleizes
 * Olga Rozanova
 * Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
 * Georges Braque
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Amédée Ozenfant
 * Oswald Spengler
 * Carlo Carrà
 * Léonce Rosenberg
 * Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier)
 * Albert Gleizes
 * André Derain
 * Percy Wyndham Lewis
 * Juan Gris
 * Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub
 * Hugo Ball
 * Marcel Duchamp
 * Tristan Tzara
 * Richard Huelsenbeck
 * Raoul Hausmann
 * Richard Huelsenbeck
 * Novembergruppe
 * Walter Gropius
 * Max Beckmann
 * Max Pechstein
 * George Grosz
 * Francis Picabia
 * Hans Arp
 * Man Ray
 * Viktor Shklovsky
 * De Stijl
 * Theo van Doesburg
 * Piet Mondrian
 * Kasimir Malevich
 * Naum Gabo
 * Anton Pevsner
 * UNOVIS
 * Johannes Itten
 * Oskar Schlemmer
 * Walter Gropius
 * El Lissitsky
 * Hans Richter
 * Wladyslaw Strzeminski
 * Hannah Höch
 * José Ortega y Gasset
 * KOMFUT
 * Vladimir Tatlin
 * Lyubov Popova
 * Nikolai Punin
 * Alexander Rodchenko
 * Varvara Stepanova
 * Alexei Gan
 * Ilya Ehrenburg
 * LEF editorial
 * Osip Brik
 * Paul Klee
 * Hans Hofmann
 * Abstraction-Création
 * Carl Gustav Jung
 * Alfred H. Barr Jr
 * Barbara Hepworth
 * American Abstract Artists
 * Ibram Lassaw
 * Ben Nicholson
 * AKhRR
 * David A. Siqueiros
 * Red Group
 * Otto Dix
 * ARBKD (Asso)
 * Alfred Rosenberg
 * Georg Lukács
 * John Reed Club of New York
 * Diego Rivera
 * Mario Sironi
 * Andrei Zhdanov
 * Stuart Davis
 * Clarence Weinstock
 * Grant Wood
 * Francis Klingender
 * Adolf Hitler
 * Leon Trotsky
 * André Breton
 * Louis Aragon
 * Wieland Herzfelde
 * Osip Brik
 * Sergei Tretyakov (writer)
 * Siegfried Kracauer
 * October (Association of Artistic Labour)
 * Georges Bataille
 * Salvador Dali
 * Gustav Klucis
 * Max Ernst
 * Walter Benjamin
 * Bertolt Brecht
 * Herbert Read
 * Meyer Schapiro
 * Jan Mukarovsky
 * Theodor Adorno
 * Ernst Bloch
 * R. G. Collingwood
 * Clement Greenberg
 * Harold Rosenberg
 * Adolph Gottlieb
 * Mark Rothko
 * Barnett Newman
 * Jackson Pollock
 * Willem de Kooning
 * David Smith
 * Clyfford Still
 * Wols
 * Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Jean Dubuffet
 * Antonin Artaud
 * Samuel Beckett
 * Georges Duthuit
 * Jacques Lacan
 * Jean-Michel Atlan
 * Francis Ponge
 * Albert Camus
 * Michel Tapié
 * Georg Baselitz
 * Francis Bacon
 * Maurice de Vlaminck
 * Francis Klingender
 * Robert Motherwell
 * Renato Guttuso
 * Frieda Kahlo
 * Lucio Fontana
 * Vladimir Kemenov
 * Robert Motherwell
 * Constant
 * Asger Jorn
 * André Fougeron
 * Hans Sedlmayr
 * George Dondero
 * Ben Shahn
 * Henry Moore
 * Roland Barthes
 * Jirô Yoshihara
 * Guy Debord
 * Asger Jorn
 * Franz Fanon
 * Lawrence Alloway
 * Allan Kaprow
 * Piero Manzoni
 * Pierre Restany
 * GRAV (Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel)
 * George Maciunas
 * Raymond Williams
 * John Cage
 * Jasper Johns
 * Richard Hamilton
 * Claes Oldenburg
 * Andy Warhol
 * Roy Lichtenstein
 * George Kubler
 * Marshall McLuhan
 * Gerhard Richter
 * Tony Smith
 * Alain Robbe-Grillet
 * Maurice Merleau-Ponty
 * Roger Hilton
 * Michael Fried
 * Jules Olitski
 * Stanley Cavell
 * William Tucker
 * Tim Scott
 * Richard Wollheim
 * Yves Klein
 * Carl Andre
 * Frank Stella
 * Ad Reinhardt
 * Donald Judd
 * Robert Morris
 * Sol LeWitt
 * Robert Barry
 * Joseph Kosuth
 * Daniel Buren
 * Olivier Mosset
 * Michel Parmentier
 * Niele Toroni
 * Terry Atkinson
 * Michael Baldwin
 * Michelangelo Pistoletto
 * Robert Smithson
 * Art & Language
 * Ian Burn
 * Mel Ramsden
 * Lawrence Weiner
 * Victor Burgin
 * John A. Murphy
 * Germano Celant
 * Eva Hesse
 * Joseph Beuys
 * Lea Vergine
 * Bruce Nauman
 * Hélio Oiticica
 * Dan Graham
 * Mierle Laderman Ukeles
 * Lucy Lippard
 * Artforum
 * Art Workers' Coalition
 * Valie Export
 * Hans Haacke
 * Marcel Broodthaers
 * Ian Burn
 * Victor Burgin
 * Jacques Derrida
 * Michael Foucault
 * Louis Althusser
 * Thomas Kuhn
 * Robert Smithson
 * Leo Steinberg
 * Rosalind Krauss
 * Jean Baudrillard
 * Laura Mulvey
 * Frederic Jameson
 * Raymond Williams
 * Edward Said
 * Jean Baudrillard
 * Pierre Bourdieu
 * Craig Owens
 * Hal Foster
 * Sherrie Levine
 * Barbara Kruger
 * Peter Halley
 * Fredric Jameson
 * Haim Steinbach
 * Jeff Koons
 * Philip Taaffe
 * Mary Kelly
 * Ana Mendieta
 * Krzysztof Wodiczko
 * Victor Burgin
 * Jacqueline Rose
 * Niklas Luhmann
 * W. J. T. Mitchell
 * Raymond Williams
 * Louise Bourgeois
 * Richard Rorty
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 * Richard Serra
 * Mike Kelley
 * Martin Kippenberger
 * Peter Wollen
 * Homi K. Bhabha
 * Daniel Bell
 * Jean-François Lyotard
 * Jürgen Habermas
 * Julia Kristeva
 * Jannis Kounellis
 * Anselm Kiefer
 * Enzo Cucchi
 * Gerhard Richter
 * Jeff Wall
 * Diedrich Diederichsen
 * Albert Oehlen
 * Olu Oguibe
 * Ilya Kabakov
 * Doris Salcedo
 * Franco Moretti