1973 in art

none 1973 art Events from the year 1973 in art. Events August 25 – Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, designed by Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is opened. Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas". David Hockney begins a 2-year spell living and working in Paris.Martin Gayford Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy London Thames & Hudson 2021 978-0-500-09436-5 Aristeidis Metallinos begins his career as a sculptor.Giannis M. Maris (1978) "Βιογραφικό - Αριστείδης Ζαχ. Μεταλληνός", in Απάνθισμα Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών, Athens, pp. 611–617. Robert Scull's collection of American Pop and Minimal art is auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City. Awards Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson – Michael Boddy Exhibitions November to December - Henri Mattisse at the Acquavella Galleries in New York City.https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/03/archives/the-glories-of-matisse-are-displayed-show-at-acquavella-offers-57.html The Glories of Matisse Are Displayed Hilton Kramer November 3, 1973 NYTimes.com Christopher Williams – centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea. Works thumb|David Wynne – Girl with a Dolphin Category:1973 paintings Category:1973 sculptures Emma Amos – Sandy and Her Husbandhttps://www.culturetype.com/2018/06/20/cleveland-museum-of-art-has-acquired-a-significant-painting-by-emma-amos/ Cleveland Museum of Art Has Acquired a Significant Painting by Emma Amos 20 June 2018 Michael Ayrton – Icarus (sculpture, London) Michael Craig-Martin – An Oak Tree (conceptual work) Salvador Dalí – Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (stereoscopic painted in duplicate but for a small variation - completed) William Eggleston – The Red Ceiling (photograph) Ben Enwonwu – Tutu Gluck – Credo (Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light) (completed) Barbara Hepworth – Conversation with Magic Stones Hipgnosis – The Dark Side of the Moon (album cover) David Hockney – The Student: Homage to Picasso (print) David Inshaw – The Badminton Game Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974) Frederic Littman – Farewell to Orpheus (bronze, Portland, Oregon) Joan Miró – completes series The navigator's hope Joan Mitchell - Iva (monumental triptych, Tate ModernAddley Esther https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/03/tate-modern-given-joan-mitchell-works-in-biggest-donation-since-1969-jorge-m-perez Tate Modern given Joan Mitchell work in biggest donation since 1969 3 April 2025 The Guardian 3 April 2025 Henry Moore – Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (bronze) Mike Parr - Wound By Measurement (performed at Galerie Impact in Lausanne, Switzerland)McKenzie Janet Mike Parr – interview: 'I was a performance artist with one arm. The problem of visibility, the visual, was loaded completely differently' https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/mike-parr-interview-drawing-performance-art-joseph-beuys 2024-08-20 www.studiointernational.com en Ivor Roberts-Jones – Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London) Dorothea Tanning - Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (work completed)https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/dorothea-tanning/exhibition-guide Dorothea Tanning Euan Uglow – Georgia Andy Warhol – Man David Wynne Embracing Lovers (bronze, Guildhall, London) Girl with a Dolphin (bronze, by Tower Bridge, London) Births January 29 – Louise Hindsgavl, Danish artist Trine Ross. "Porcelænsfigurer viser de mindre pæne sider af os selv". Politiken: Kultur February 1 – Yuri Landman, Dutch musician, comic book creator and singer May 8 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist July 7 – Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist July 28 (possible date) – Banksy, English graffiti artist August 18 – Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator date unknown Noma Bar, Israeli-born illustrator and graphic artist. Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist. Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator. Rosalind Nashashibi, Palestinian-English film artist. Charles Pétillon, French photographer and installation artist Deaths January to June January 17 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886).Damian Carol 1999 Tarsila Do Amaral: Art and Environmental Concerns of a Brazilian Modernist Woman's Art Journal 20 1 3–7 10.2307/1358838 1358838 March 14 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901). March 25 Gerda Höglund, Swedish religious painter (b. 1878). Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter and curator (b. 1879). April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. 1881). April 13 – Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892)Michael Bonesteel Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings Random House Incorporated 2000 9780847822843 13 April 28 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888). May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914). May 12 – Edith Tudor Hart, née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. 1908). May 16 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887). May 18 – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894). May 21 – Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (b. 1890). July to December July 20 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938). August 9 – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905). September 30 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b. 1902). November 13 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890). November 17 – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b. 1894). December 7 – Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (b. 1896). December 13 – Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator (b. 1885).http://www.askart.com/AskART/artist.aspx?artist=2126 AskART Ralph Ward Stackpole (1885–1973) 2000–2010 April 23, 2010 December 16 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886). See also 1973 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union References Category:Years of the 20th century in art Category:1970s in art