the first two were made by people who were designers. this means that they designed every day products. oh and they were artists, too. that's why their every day products look so rad.
the rest i'm not even going into.
van gogh rocks, btw. for you to lump him into "modern art" is totally crazy on your part. TOTALLY CRAZY.
and rez knows that i also hate when people look at art and recall names just to impress people around them. i was livid when some silly person on a photography website compared a horrific black and white picture of a calla lily to mapplethorpe's calla lily series. it's stupid, stupid, stupid. especially if there's no merit in it.
OH LOOK AT THAT I JUST NAMED DROPPED PLEASE EXCUSE MY ART FAGGINESS