Alberto Giacometti. Without a doubt.
Definately Edward Hopper
Rut Blees Luxemburg if photographers count...
Antonio Sant'Elia
Am I allowed to count architects? He's not my favourite architect ever but some of the things Tadao Ando does should definately be considered as art...
Marino Marini
Wassily Kandinsky
I'm also a big fan of Pre-Renaissance religious work. Byzantine, Medieval. Before they discovered perspective, and just as they were discovering it, that sort of thing.
Names like Fra Angelico, Masaccio, Lippi, Simone Martini, Lorenzetti, Duccio, Piero Della Francesca, Giotto, and all those unnamed painters and craftsmen of fantastic crucifixion scenes that never get the attention they deserve.
Maestas and Anunciations and Madonna with Child and grand Italian Frescoes... that sort of thing :)
The Uffizi gallery is FULL of the stuff. Probably my favourite gallery I've ever been in. Rome, Florence and Siena are easily three of my favourite cities in the world.
Kind of weird that depsite liking all the pre-Renaissance stuff like this:
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My FAVOURITE piece of art from that period I found in the Uffizi. Just a small painting. No bigger than an A4 piece of paper... In a gallery as vast as the Uffizi it seemed a bit overwhelmed and bullied by the older kids but I fell in love with it. Its a really intimate portrait of Madonna and child. So much more personal than anything you found in that period, even WITH the faraway look in the Virgin's eye. Its a tender scene of playing with your child, and that's why I love it. The picture does it no justice.
Madonna del Solletico, by Masaccio:
Oh, and don't even get me STARTED on the architects from that era...
Brunelleschi, Bernini, Michaelangelo, Boromini...
Oh man.
I'm such a geek for that period in art and architecture.