1970 in art

The year 1970 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• January 16 – John Lennon's exhibition of Bag One at the London Arts Gallery is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs".
• October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
• November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit to Manila.
• Tom Keating admits that a number of watercolours in the style of Samuel Palmer were painted by him.
• Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.
• Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia in Skopje, designed by the "Warsaw Tigers" (Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki), is built.
• Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, the first dedicated conceptual art exhibition, is mounted at the New York Cultural Center.^[1]
• Theodor W. Adorno's book Aesthetic Theory (Asthetische Theorie) is published posthumously in Germany.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – Gruzman – Architect
• Prix Puvis de Chavannes – Daniel du Janerand

Works

• Gilbert and George – The Singing Sculpture (performance)^[2]
• Barbara Hepworth – Family of Man
• Alvin D. Loving Jr. – Cube 27 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Henry Moore – Reclining Figure LH608
• Kanda Nissho – Indoor Landscape
• Isamu Noguchi – Night Wind
• Victor Pasmore – Apollo Pavilion (Peterlee, England)
• William Scott – Still Life With Orange Note (Arts Council of Northern Ireland)
• Aaron Shikler – Official portrait of President John F. Kennedy
• Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty

Births

• January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator
• January 22 – Alex Ross, American comic book painter and illustrator
• January 24 – Maria Balshaw, English curator
• February 10 – Peter Richards, British artist and curator
• February 15 – Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator
• February 27 – Matthias Lechner, German set designer and art director
• March 12 – Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and model
• May 3 – Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
• May 9 – Damian Loeb, American painter
• May 26 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese manga artist
• June 1 – Joshua Compston, British gallerist (d.1996)
• July 6 – Grant Bond, American comic book artist and writer
• July 9 – Benoit Pierre Emery, French art director and fashion designer
• August 4 – Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator
• August 23 – Ben Eine, né Flynn, English street artist
• November 22 – Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter
• date unknown
  • Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist
  • Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist
  • Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator
  • Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker
  • David Quinn, Irish artist
  • Bosco Sodi, Mexican-born abstract painter

Deaths

• January 27
  • Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (born 1908)
  • Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker (born 1883)
• February 25 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (born 1903)
• February 26 – Ángel María de Rosa, Argentine sculptor and philanthropist (born 1888)
• March 2 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (born 1888)
• March 8
  • Waldo Peirce, American painter (born 1884)
  • Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (born 1892)
• March 22 – Georges Malkine, French Surrealist painter (born 1898)
• April 20 – Robert Laurent, American sculptor (born 1890)
• April 29 – Charles R. Chickering, American illustrator (born 1891)
• May 13 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (born 1899)
• May 29 – Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (born 1936)
• June 6
  • Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (born 1883)
  • Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, Swedish-Finnish graphic artist (born 1882)
• June 27 – Edwin La Dell, British artist (born 1914)
• July 4 – Barnett Newman, American artist (born 1905)
• July 7 – Dame Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (born 1877)
• July 13 – Lazar Drljača, Serbian painter (born 1883)
• July 30 – Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (born 1903)
• November 29
  • Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian painter (born 1899)
  • Walter Stuempfig, American painter (born 1914)
• December 1 – Hermine David, French painter (born 1886)
• December 19 – Stig Blomberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1901)
• date unknown – Ze'ev Raban, Israeli painter (born 1890)

See also

• 1970 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References