1980 in art

none thumb|Augusto De Luca 1980 art Events from the year 1980 in art. Events January 1 – Gary Larson's single-panel comic The Far Side debuts in the San Francisco Chronicle. February 7 – Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour opens at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. May 22–September 16 – Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States. December 8 – Annie Leibovitz photographs John Lennon with Yoko Ono in New York for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine five hours before his murder. Robert Hughes presents a series (with accompanying book), The Shock of the New, for BBC Television in the United Kingdom on "art and the century of change". Benedikt Taschen opens a comic book store in Cologne which will evolve into the art book publisher Taschen. Exhibitions February 17 until April 6 - "Afro-American Abstraction" (curated by April Kingsley at MoMA PS1 in New York City.https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4154/installation_images/41134 Installation view of "Challenge of the Will" (1979) by James Little in the P.S. 1 exhibition, "Afro-American Abstraction" (February 17-April 6, 1980) | MoMA Works Category:1980 paintings Category:1980 sculptures Basil Blackshaw – Green Landscape Arbit Blatas – The Monument of the Holocaust (reliefs, first edition) Alan Chung Hung – Gate to the Northwest Passage (sculpture, Vancouver, British Columbia) David Inshaw – The River Bank (Ophelia) Keith Jellum – Mimir (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Nabil Kanso Apocalyptic Rider Time Suspended in Space (South Africa) Peter Kennard – Haywain with Cruise Missiles Georgia O'Keeffe – Llama in the Desert Bryan Organ – Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton Howard Post – Moving Cattle George Segal – Gay Liberation (sculpture) Awards John Moores Painting Prize - Michael Moon for "Box-room"https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/previous-winners-list/michael_moon.aspx Michael Moon - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 28 November 2018 Deaths January to June January 9 – Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (b. 1910)Catharine M. C. Haines International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 Santa Barbara ABC-CLIO 2001 978-1-57607-090-1 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=HftdjMNDvwIC January 18 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (b. 1904)Elizabeth Lomas Guide to the Archive of Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 2001 9781579583156 23 January 20 – William Roberts, painter (b. 1904) January 26 – Dolly Rudeman, Dutch graphic designer (b. 1902)Le Coultre Purvis M. F. A. W. A Century of Posters https://books.google.com/books?id=5zVQAAAAMAAJ 2003 Lund Humphries Zwolle 978-0853318637 80–81 February 4 – Stojan Aralica, Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (b. 1883)https://prodajaslika.org/en/autori/stojan-aralica-en/ Stojan Aralica Galerija Spanac 9 April 2026 February 6 – Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (b. 1907) February 17 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903) February 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (b. 1886)https://www.mdr.de/zeitreise/ns-zeit/oskar-kokoschka100.html Wer war Oskar Kokoschka? 2007 mdr.de Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Leipzig de 23 November 2019 De mdr March 5 – John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (b. 1901)Charles Baile de Laperriere Royal Academy Exhibitors, 1971-1989: A Dictionary of Artists and Their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Hilmarton Manor Press 1989 9780904722192 447 March 18 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (b. 1898)Lempicka-Foxhall Kizette Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka 1987 New York Abbeville Press Phillips Charles 978-0-7892-0503-2 556355687 https://archive.org/details/passionbydesigna00dele_0 registration Internet Archive 58 April 21 Ľudovít Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (b. 1902) Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (b. 1928) May 15 – Len Lye, New Zealand-born American kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (b. 1901)Glueck Grace https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/16/archives/len-lye-78-experimental-artist-and-fineart-film-pioneer-dies.html Len Lye, 78, Experimental Artist And Fine-Art Film Pioneer, Dies; Renewed Interest in Sculpture 1980-05-16 The New York Times 2020-04-09 en-US 0362-4331 May 16 – Izis Bidermanas, Lithuanian-born photographer (b. 1911) June 7 – Philip Guston, Canadian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1913) June 23 – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1904) July to December July 16 – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American painter and art teacher (b. 1898)Fort Ilene Susan https://books.google.com/books?id=3MjpAAAAMAAJ American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection Quick Michael 1991 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 978-0-295-97027-1 313 en August 26 – Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (b. 1908). September 14 – Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (b. 1906). November 22 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901). December 26 – Tony Smith, American sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (b. 1912). December 30 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (b. 1915). Undated Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (born 1900) Cicely Hey, English-born artist and model (born 1896) See also 1980 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1980s in art ru:1980 год в истории изобразительного искусства СССР