1983 in art

none 1983 art Events from the year 1983 in art. Events Galería OMR commercial contemporary art gallery founded in Mexico City. High Museum of Art, designed by Richard Meier, opened in Atlanta, Georgia. Australian painter Sidney Nolan settles in Britain at Rodd Court in Herefordshire on the Welsh border near Presteigne.http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/about/our-history Sidney Nolan Trust 2021-04-18 Awards Archibald Prize: Nigel ThomsonArchibald Prize finalists 1983 https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1983/ 2026-09-28 Art Gallery of NSW – Chandler Coventry Works Category:1983 paintings Category:1983 sculptures Richard Beyer's Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain installed in Oregon Zoo, Portland. Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m2) of pink fabric.https://www.artnews.com/art-news/retrospective/archives-christo-surrounds-islands-miamis-biscayne-bay-fabric-1984-11464/ From the Archives: Christo Surrounds Islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay in Fabric, in 1984 7 December 2018 Lucian Freud - Large Interior W11 (After Watteau)https://www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2019/09/03/41280195/currently-hanging-lucian-freuds-large-interior-w11-after-watteau-at-seattle-art-museum#:~:text=British%20painter%20Lucian%20Freud%27s%20%22Large,Keeffe)%20over%20the%20next%20year%3C Currently Hanging: Lucian Freud's "Large Interior, W11 (After Watteau)" at Seattle Art Museum 25 July 2019 Completion of Richard Hamilton's diptych The Citizen. Cast of John Seward Johnson II's painted bronze Allow Me installed in Portland, Oregon. Marta Minujin - The Parthenon of Books.https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/minujin-the-parthenon-of-books-t14343 'The Parthenon of Books', Marta Minujín, 1983 2020-01-20 Marta Minujín's The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations https://flash---art.com/article/marta-minujins-the-parthenon-of-books-a-living-elevation-of-social-and-cultural-relations/ 2024-08-21 Flash Art en-US Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle's kinetic artwork, the Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Births Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, Qatari chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority Jérémie Iordanoff, French abstract artist and politician M. Jérémie Iordanoff - Isère (5e circonscription) https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/deputes/PA794022 2026-09-28 Assemblée nationale fr Milo Moiré, Swiss performance artist Deaths January to June 24 February – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).2023-02-24 Roy G. Krenkel -- Forty Years Gone https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2023/2/24/roy-g-krenkel-forty-years-gone 2026-09-28 DMR Books en-US 3 March – Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/how-did-herge-die/ How did Hergé die? - Forbidden Planet Blog 2007-05-23 en-US 2016-09-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20160915133705/http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/how-did-herge-die/ 2016-09-15 dead 21 May – Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903). 11 May – Ernst Thoms, German painter (b. 1896). 8 June – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912). 28 June – Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (b. 1900) July to December 14 July – Philip Zec, British editorial cartoonist (b. 1909). 12 August – Franz Radziwill, German painter (b. 1895). 18 August – Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902). 28 October – Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892). 5 November – Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941). 17 November – John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914). 2 December – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (b.1922). 20 December – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (b.1904). 23 December – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910). 25 December – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/joan-miro-the-birth-of-the-world MoMA Joan Miró. The Birth of the World. Montroig, late summer–fall 1925 www.moma.org 2016-09-08 26 December – Hans Liska, Austrian-born German artist (b. 1907). Full date unknown Michael Cardew, English studio potter (b.1901). Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903). Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910). See also 1982 in fine arts of the Soviet Union 1983 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1980s in art