12. Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was born in France on 8 July 1887  and was an artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art.   Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing.

 Marcel Duchamp died on October 2, 1968 in  France, and is buried in the Rouen Cemetery. His headstone is engraved with, "D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent;" or "Besides, it's always other people who die."

11. Donatella Versace

Donatella Versace is the sister of fashion designer Gianni Versace, who is the founder of Versace clothing line. She is now the Vice-President of Versace and the Chief Designer for the entire line . 

Donatella is the youngest of three children and was born in Italy in 1955. She was very close to her brother, and they both studied knitwear design in Florence. Despite the company's huge success, tragedy struck the Versace family when Gianni was murdered outside of his mansion. The family went into seclusion after the funeral and cancelled the entire 1998 spring line, but in July 1998, Donatella put on her first couture show, bringing Versace back into the fashion world. 

10. Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, 1948, and died in 1985. Ana Mendieta's work which included typical practices of the 1970s and 1980s era. She studied at the University of Iowa, where she created many of her early performance works. In 1972 Mendieta began creating haunting earth images. Over a fourteen-year time frame she created more than numerous films that expressed landscape sculptures and earthly figures.

9. Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic was born in 1946 in Yugoslavia, she is well known in the world of performing arts. She has been, and continues to be, an important influence for performance artists making work over the last several decades. She tends to stay away from typical art work such as canvas and paintings. For the passed 40 years she seemed to tend to create unusual pieces of art which leaves us asking " How is that art?" 

8. Jamie Isenstein

Jamie Isenstein has somewhat of an unusual artistic flare, she tends to find ways to incorporate herself in the posture of inanimate objects. Not much was written about her background as to where she studied other than she was born in 1975 in Portland, Oregon. But here look for yourself ... pictures are worth 1,000 words.

7. Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft was born in 1969, she has a very theatrical approach to her work, some say her artwork is brilliant while others say its terrible. She uses live female models often nude in most of her work, her live work is often recorded while the models stand motionless for long periods of time. 

6. Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

Westwood was born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Glossop, Derbyshire, on April 8, 1941 and began designing clothes in 1971.  She received multiple awards to include British Designer of the Year that year in both 1990 and 1991.