1959 in art
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- André BretonAndré BretonAndré Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....
asks Salvador DalíSalvador DalíSalvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
, Joan MiróJoan MiróJoan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
, Enrique TábaraEnrique TábaraLuis Enrique Tábara is a master Ecuadorian painter and teacher representing a whole Hispanic pictorial and artistic culture....
, and Eugenio GranellEugenio GranellEugenio Granell was an artist often described as the last Spanish Surrealist painter.Born in A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia, Eugenio Fernández Granell started out as a political radical and a musician...
to represent Spain by exhibiting some of their works in the Homage to Surrealism Exhibition celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of Surrealism.
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- Salvador DalíSalvador DalíSalvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
- The Discovery of America by Christopher ColumbusThe Discovery of America by Christopher ColumbusThe Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is the name of a painting by artist Salvador Dalí, begun in 1958 and finished in 1959. It is over 14 feet tall and over 9 feet wide , one in a series of large paintings Dalí did during this era.-Description:This work is an ambitious homage to Dali's... - Ivan GeneralićIvan GeneralicIvan Generalić was a Croatian naïve art painter.Generalić was born in Hlebine near Koprivnica. In elementary school, painting lessons were his greatest joy and as a child he used to earn money...
- The Deer Wedding - Lee KrasnerLee KrasnerLee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
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- February 26 - Gabrielle RenardGabrielle RenardGabrielle Renard was a French woman who became an important member of the family of the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first becoming a nanny and subsequently, a frequent model for the artist. She is recognized as the mentor to Jean Renoir, creating and encouraging his interest in filmmaking...
, artist's model - April 9 - Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
, architect, innovator - May 3 - Renato BirolliRenato Birolli-Biography:Birolli was born at Verona to a family of industrial workers. In 1923 he moved to Milan where he formed an avanguardist group with other artists such as Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Manzù and Aligi Sassu. In 1937 he was a member of the artistical movement called Corrente di Vita...
, painter - June 8 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor (b. 18691869 in art-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Wine Shop*Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Femme Lisant *Gustave Courbet - The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm...
) - July 6 - George GroszGeorge GroszGeorg Ehrenfried Groß was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s...
, painter and draftsman (b. 18931893 in art-Events:*May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake...
) - July 17 - Alfred MunningsAlfred MunningsSir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism...
, equine painter (b. 18781878 in art-Events:*James McNeill Whistler sues critic John Ruskin for libel over his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.-Works:...
) - August 5 - Frank GodwinFrank GodwinFrancis Godwin , better known as Frank Godwin, was an American illustrator and comic strip artist, notable for his strip Connie and his book illustrations for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood and King Arthur...
, illustrator - August 19 - Jacob EpsteinJacob EpsteinSir Jacob Epstein KBE was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter...
, sculptor (b. 18801880 in art-Events:*Vincent van Gogh begins his career as a professional painter.*Anton Mauve paints Changing Pasture: His palette and usage of colour influences Vincent van Gogh.*Michael Peter Ancher marries fellow painter Anna Kirstine Brøndum.-Awards:...
) - August 20 - Alfred KubinAlfred KubinAlfred Leopold Isidor Kubin was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism.-Biography:...
, illustrator - September 9 - Merric BoydMerric BoydWilliam Merric Boyd was an Australian artist active as a ceramicist, painter, and sculptor.Merric Boyd is credited as the father of studio pottery in Australia; he is also known for his drawing, painting and sculpting...
, painter, sculptor and ceramic artist - September 13 - AdrianAdrian (costume designer)Adrian Adolph Greenberg , most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as...
, Hollywood costume designer - September 18
- Benjamin PéretBenjamin PéretBenjamin Péret was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist and a founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.-Biography:...
, editor of La Révolution surréalisteLa Révolution surréalisteLa Révolution surréaliste was a publication by the Surrealists in Paris. Twelve issues were published between 1924 and 1929.... - Adolf ZieglerAdolf ZieglerAdolf Ziegler was a German painter and politician.He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of "Degenerate art", made by most of the German modern artists. He was the favoured painter of Hitler...
, German painter and politician (b. 18921892 in art-Events:* May - The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art.-Paintings:*John Collier - Lilith*James Ensor - Man of Sorrows...
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- Benjamin Péret
- November 15 - Charles JonesCharles Jones (photographer)Charles Harry Jones was an English gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables.Born in Wolverhampton, Charles Jones became a gardener working on a number of private estates in England from the 1890s. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and...
, photographer - November 24 - Stepan Erzya, sculptor
- December 9 - Gene CarrGene Carr (cartoonist)Gene Carr was a United States cartoonist.He was one of the most active early New York City artists in the young field of comic strips. He was doing newspaper cartoons by age 15 and two years later was working for the William Randolph Hearst papers. Carr is considered a pioneer of the use of...
, cartoonist - December 14
- Lizzy AnsinghLizzy AnsinghMaria Elisabeth Georgina Ansingh , or Lizzy Ansingh, was a Dutch painter. She belonged to a school of female painters called the Amsterdamse Joffers....
, Dutch painter (b. 18751875 in art-Paintings:*Gustave Caillebotte - Floor-scrapers *Jean-Paul Laurens - L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux ...
) - Stanley SpencerStanley SpencerSir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Much of his work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent most of his life...
, English painter (b. 18911891 in art-Events:*Henri Matisse begins his studies at the Académie Julian.*Correspondence of Marie Bashkirtseff and Gustave Flaubert is published.*Impressionist Armand Guillaumin wins 100,000 francs in the French state lottery and is able to devote himself to painting full-time.*Felix Vallotton makes his...
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- Lizzy Ansingh
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- Winifred BruntonWinifred BruntonWinifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry was a painter most famous for her portraits of Egyptian pharaohs, published as Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt and Great Ones of Ancient Egypt . She married Egyptologist Guy Brunton on 28 April 1906...
, painter - Beatrix FarrandBeatrix FarrandBeatrix Jones Farrand was a landscape gardener and landscape architect in the United States. Her career included commissions to design the gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House.Farrand was one of the founding...
, landscape architect - Matthew SmithMatthew Smith (artist)Sir Matthew Smith was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape.-Biography:Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith was born on 22 October 1879 in Halifax, the son of a wire-manufacturer...
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- Winifred Brunton