Ten truly great artists per century?

Diebenkorn, Frank Stella, I think Warhol will hold up, Milton Avery and Rothco.

I think it should be clear that the following is a provisional list.

The 21st Century:
Allora and Calzadilla
Kutlug Ataman
Paul Chan
Trisha Donnelly
Olafur Eliasson
Geoffrey Farmer
Ryan Gander
Carsten Hoeller
Walid Raad
Anri Sala

Hmmm... ten is high, you could parse ten politicians, musicians or companies and have a hell of a lot of arguement to go around. maybe 7 and you can have a defendable list?

Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Aalto, Christo, Warhol, Picasso (what a jerk), and Hirst

Jack Kirby

also not mentioned yet - salvador dali, bruce naumann, de kooning, jasper johns...

In 20thC I would list Sokol, Klee and Kandinsky, I would skip Arbus and Judd.

Oh, can I add all of my artists to that list? ;-)

I think I know why you skipped the 18th Century - it's a tough stretch that corresponds to Rococo. My list is up to Chardin, Watteau, Fragonard, and Greuze. Frankly, that may be enough.

I tend to think ten is high, actually, but allowing for those artists who do indeed drop in at times, I think it works.

The list for the 20th Century by about 2410, will be, IHMO...Picasso, Matisse, Warhol, Matta-Clark (yes, I'll stick with that for now), Rauschenberg, and maybe, in no particular order, but because I suspect their influence will grow, Hesse, Richter, Twombly, possibly Guston, and (well, he might straddle Centuries) Hirst.

But even with that list it was very hard coming up with 10 "truly great" artists.