1966 in art
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Events
- The Hairy WhoChicago ImagistsThe Chicago Imagists is the name of a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, surrealism and complete uninvolvement with New York art world trends...
, a group of surrealist iconoclasts later called the Chicago ImagistsChicago ImagistsThe Chicago Imagists is the name of a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, surrealism and complete uninvolvement with New York art world trends...
, first exhibit at the Hyde Park Art CenterHyde Park Art CenterThe Hyde Park Art Center is a visual arts organization and the oldest alternative exhibition space in the city of Chicago. Since 2006, HPAC has been located just north of Hyde Park Boulevard, at 5020 S.Cornell Avenue, in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.-Beginnings:The Hyde Park Art...
in ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. They will be the most important art movement to come out of Chicago in the 1960s. - Retrospective exhibition of Marcel DuchampMarcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
organized by Richard HamiltonRichard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...
at the Tate GalleryTate GalleryThe Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
, London. The only comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work in the UK to date (2006). - The second New York City Armory ShowArmory ShowMany exhibitions have been held in the vast spaces of U.S. National Guard armories, but the Armory Show refers to the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors...
9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. - Experiments in Art and Technology.
Works
- David HockneyDavid HockneyDavid Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
- In the dull villageIn the dull villageIn the dull village is an etching and aquatint print made by David Hockney in 1966, one of series of illustrations for a selection of Greek poems written by Constantine P. Cavafy. It depicts two men lying next to each other in bed, naked from the waist up, with their lower halves covered by... - Kanda NisshoKanda NisshoKanda Nisshō was a Japanese artist and farmer. He is mostly known for his oil paintings.Kanda was born in Nerima, Tokyo, in 1937. At the age of eight he and his family relocated to Shikaoi Town, Tokachi, Hokkaidō as part of wartime evacuations...
- Gashitsu A and Gashitsu B - Claes OldenburgClaes OldenburgClaes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...
- Soft Bathtub
Births
- 12 January - Rob ZombieRob ZombieRob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...
, artist and musician. - 31 January - Christian Cardell CorbetChristian Cardell CorbetChristian Cardell Corbet is a Canadian sculptor, painter and designer. He co-founded and was first President of the Canadian Portrait Academy.- Quotes :...
, portrait sculptor, painter and art historian. - 20 April - BioBio (graffiti artist)Bio is the tagger name of Wilfredo Feliciano . He started painting graffiti on New York City subways in 1980, and is one of the founding members of the TATS CRU....
, graffiti artist. - 4 October - Angus FairhurstAngus FairhurstAngus Fairhurst was an English artist working in installation, photography and video. He was one of the Young British Artists .-Life and work:Angus Fairhurst was born in Pembury, Kent...
, Young British ArtistYoung British ArtistsYoung British Artists or YBAs is the name given to a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London, in 1988...
, installation, photography and video artist (d.20082008 in art-Awards:* Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret* Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum...
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- Jeremy DellerJeremy DellerJeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner.Deller is best-known for his Battle of Orgreave , a reenactment of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.-Life and work:Jeremy Deller was born in London,...
, Turner PrizeTurner PrizeThe Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
-winning artist. - Amin GulgeeAmin GulgeeAmin Gulgee Urdu:امین گلجی is a Pakistani metal sculptor, the son of Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee. His Web site lists his inspirations as Pakistan's spiritual history, Hindu mythology, Buddhist civilization and Islamic calligraphy. "I work in order to understand myself...
, PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i sculptor.
Deaths
- January 6 - Jean LurçatJean LurçatJean Lurçat was a French artist noted for his role in the revival of contemporary tapestry.-Biography:He was born in Bruyères, Vosges, the son of Lucien Jean Baptiste Lurçat and Marie Emilie Marguerite L'Hote. He was the brother of André Lurçat, who became an architect...
, painter and designer - January 11 - Alberto GiacomettiAlberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter...
, Surrealist sculptor and painter - February 17 - Hans HofmannHans HofmannHans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.-Biography:Hofmann was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880, the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. When he was six he moved with his family to Munich...
, abstract expressionist painter, teacher (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:...
) - March 30 - Maxfield ParrishMaxfield ParrishMaxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.-Life:...
, painter and illustrator (b. 18701870 in art-Events:*Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet and Pissarro flee to London.*Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris.-Paintings:*Henri Fantin-Latour - A Studio in the Batignolles...
) - April 3 - Battista FarinaBattista FarinaBattista "Pinin" Farina was an Italian automobile designer, the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars....
, car designer - May 30 - Wäinö AaltonenWäinö AaltonenWäinö Valdemar Aaltonen was a Finnish artist and sculptor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "one of the leading Finnish sculptors".He was born to a tailor in the village of Marttila, Finland...
, sculptor - June 7 - Jean ArpJean ArpJean Arp / Hans Arp was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper....
, painter and sculptor (b. 18861886 in art-Events:* April - New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall, London, providing an alternative to the Royal Academy for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson Steer, under the influence of Paris....
) - July 10 - Malvina HoffmanMalvina HoffmanMalvina Hoffman , was an American sculptor and author, well known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people...
, sculptor