1957 in art

none 1957 art Events from the year 1957 in art. Events April 19 – Picasso is introduced by American photographer David Douglas Duncan to his dachshund Lump who becomes Picasso's companion and subject in paintings.David Douglas Duncan Picasso & Lump Thames & Hudson 2006 May 17 – First known instance of a chimpanzee (Congo) painting.Desmond Morris The Artistic Ape London Red Lemon Press 2013 978-1-78342-002-5 28 His mentor Desmond Morris organises an exhibition of chimpanzee art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Hungarian National Gallery opens in Buda Castle, Budapest. Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany. Chicago's Lithuanian community opens the Čiurlionis Art Gallery. John Lennon enrols at Liverpool College of Art where he will meet Stuart Sutcliffe. Man Ray's Object to Be Destroyed (1923) is destroyed Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Style of graphic design. Awards Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Self Portrait John Moores Painting Prize: Jack Smith – Creation and Crucifixionhttp://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/jack_smith.aspx Jack Smith - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 Exhibitions January – Yves Klein – Proposte Monochrome, Epoca Blu ("Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch"), Gallery Apollinaire, Milan. Works Category:1957 paintings Category:1957 sculptures Arman - Mauve Administratif Jean Arp – Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (cast bronze) Maurice Boitel – The Hens Paul-Émile Borduas – Étoile noire Arthur Boyd – Dreaming Bridegroom 1 Yves Klein – Aerostatic Sculpture (Paris). L. S. Lowry – Man Lying on a Wall; Portrait of Ann Isamu Noguchi – Endless Coupling Pablo Picasso – Las Meninas Charles Sheeler – Red Against White Clyfford Still – 1957-D No. 1 Births January 27 – Frank Miller, American comic-book artist February 26 – Ben Garrison, American political cartoonist April 3 – Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (d. 1990) May 4 – John Akomfrah, Ghanaian-born British filmmaker July 31 – Martin Jennings, English figurative sculpture August 7 – Mark Bagley, American comic-book artist August 9 – Rick Leonardi, American comic-book illustrator August 28 – Ai Weiwei, Chinese installation artist October 16 – Jim Hodges, American installation artist November 18 – Ernst Billgren, Swedish sculptor November 26 – Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (d. 1996) undated Bill Barker, American Schwa conceptual artist Mike Bernard, English painter and multi-media artist Wang Jiujiang, Chinese neo-shan shui artist Deaths January 1 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906) January 13? – Saishū Onoe, Japanese poet and calligrapher (b. 1876) January 17 – Jože Plečnik, Slovene architect (b. 1872) January 20 – John Minton, English painter and illustrator (suicide) (b. 1917) February 4 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and caricaturist (b. 1904) February 11 – Gwen Raverat, English wood engraver (b. 1885) February 14 – Emanuel Hahn, German Canadian sculptor (b. 1881) March 16 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-born sculptor (b. 1876) March 28 – Jack Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1871) March 23 – Andrzej Wróblewski, Polish figurative painter (mountaineering accident) (b. 1927) May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian-born painter (b. 1884)John E. Bowlt Nicoletta Misler Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza Twentieth-Century Russian and East European Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 1994 320 978-3-60876-258-7 May 18 – Bruce Rogers, American book designer and typographer (b. 1870) June 12 – Mario Urteaga Alvarado, Peruvian painter (b. 1875) July 7 – Kiyoshi Koishi, Japanese photographer (b. 1908) August 2 – Lasar Segall, Lithuanian-born Brazilian Jewish painter (b. 1891) August 15 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (b. 1880) August 19 – David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890) September 13 – Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (b. 1862) September 26 – Pompeo Coppini, Italian American sculptor (b. 1870) October 11 – René Auberjonois, Swiss Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872) October 15 – Henry van de Velde, Belgian-born painter, architect and designer, a founder of the Art Nouveau movement (b. 1863) October 24 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905) November 2 – Mahonri Young, American sculptor (d. 1877) November 20 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-born graphic artist (b. 1875) November 24 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886) November 30 – Paja Jovanović, a leading Serbian Realist painter (along with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić) (b. 1859) December 14 – Josef Lada, Czech illustrator and painter (b. 1887) December 15 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German propaganda photographer (b. 1885) See also 1957 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1950s in art