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Alright here we go, folks.
10. Jon Foreman
Fairly unknown in America but there's been some profiles about what this Welsh artist has done with beach rock patterns. It's a stunning display of temporary, found work that has a mandala like effect.
9. Akie Nakata
Nakata's work is what might at first seem like something "cute" you'd find in a beach gift shop, but there's a level of detail in her animal rock paintings that rewards deep inspection.
8. Jean Verame
Sometimes it's not just the effect, but the extraordinary effort that goes into a work and when you think of the scale of Jean Verame's mountainside work it's very much worth an inclusion on this list. Helps that they are visually gorgeous too.
7. Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum
Look, it may be a cliche at this point, but Mount Rushmore is truly a stunning achievement in the history of sculpting. Problematic nature of the work aside, though it would be wrong not to note it was an intrusion on Native land, it is still a national treasure.
6. Paul Cézanne
Okay, I'm cheating. Cézanne may not have used rocks as his medium, but his paintings of rocks and quarries are beautiful and demand to be seen in person. An appreciation of the rock should count here.
5. Gary Dahl
Hehe, I know I'm being coy with this one, but the Pet Rock is a centerpiece of American kitsch culture. Dahl may have been a businessman, but the simple charms of the Pet Rock helped inspire so many young children to follow their own creative endeavors. It is in itself a work of art.
4. Jonathan Bréchignac
A contemporary French artist whose "Alien Rocks" series is on the avant-garde of rock artistry. He's one to watch.
3. Andy Goldsworthy
Now we're talking about the champions. Goldsworthy doesn't just make art with rocks, all of nature is his tapestry. One of our living greats.
2. Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth's sculptures make you completely rethink what it is possible to make out of a rock.
1. Michelangelo
Is marble a rock? Is this cheating? Who cares? Shout out to the king, the greatest to ever do it. Rest assured whatever you do in your life, none of it will weigh as heavy on the direction of modern art as Michelangelo's name has. To me, that's a comfort.
you forgot Radiohead and tortoise
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