1968 in art
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Events
- Chess match between 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...
and John CageJohn CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, TorontoTorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
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Awards
- Archibald PrizeArchibald PrizeThe Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
: William Edwin PidgeonWilliam PidgeonWilliam Edwin Pidgeon, aka Bill Pidgeon and WEP, was an Australian painter who won the Archibald Prize three times....
- Lloyd Rees - Elaine HamiltonElaine Hamilton-O'NealElaine Hamilton-O'Neal, , professionally known as Elaine Hamilton, was an internationally known American abstract painter and muralist born near Catonsville, Maryland...
wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France
Exhibitions
- Eva HesseEva HesseEva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
- Chain Polymers, Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City - Ralph HotereRalph HotereHone Papita Raukura "Ralph" Hotere is a New Zealand artist of Māori descent . He was born in Mitimiti, Northland and He is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most important living artists...
- Black Paintings, Auckland, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Works
- Eduardo KingmanEduardo KingmanEduardo Kingman was one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamin and Camilo Egas.-Background:...
- Fin de Mascarada - Robert MotherwellRobert MotherwellRobert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
- Open #23 (Currently exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, BostonMuseum of Fine Arts, BostonThe Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...
, loaned by Graham GundGraham GundGraham de Conde Gund is an American architect and the president of the Gund Partnership, an American architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded by Gund in 1971...
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Births
- December 23 - Manuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-Ortiz is an American documentary photographer of Puerto Rican descent, the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. He is best known for his documentary photographs of people's living conditions in less developed countries...
, documentary photographer - George Henry SmythGeorge Henry SmythGeorge H Smyth is an artist born in Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland.-Background:George H. Smyth was born in Ardglass in 1968. His father was a talented water-colourist. Before entering Art College, he had produced art work for Irish rock band Therapy?...
, Northern Irish artist - July 23 - Paulo Henrique (choreographer), Portuguese multidisciplinary artist
Deaths
- February 11 - Jacob SteinhardtJacob SteinhardtJacob Steinhardt was an Israeli painter and woodcut artist.-Biography:Jacob Steinhardt was born in Żerków, Germany . He attended the School of Art in Berlin in 1906, then studied painting with Louis Corinth and engraving with Hermann Struck in 1907...
, painter and woodcut artist (b. 18871887 in art-Events:* Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" .* Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan....
) - May 21 - Bror HjorthBror HjorthBror Hjorth was a Swedish artist. Hjorth was one of Sweden’s best-known sculptors and painters, and was professor of art at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1949 to 1959. On completion of his studies, he lived in Uppsala, where he built his studio home in Kåbo, now the...
, sculptor - May 28 - Kees van DongenKees van DongenCornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen , usually known as Kees van Dongen or just Van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits....
, Fauvist painter (b. 18771877 in art-Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...
) - July 2 - Sir Hans HeysenHans HeysenSir Hans Heysen, OBE was a well-known German Australian artist. He was particularly recognized for his watercolours of the Australian bush. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times.-Biography:...
, watercolour painter - October 2 - 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...
, influential artist (b. 18871887 in art-Events:* Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" .* Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan....
) - November 4 - Michel KikoineMichel KikoineMichel Kikoine , was a French painter of Jewish-Belarusian origin.- Life :Kikoine was born in Rechytsa, Belarus. The son of a Jewish banker in the small southeastern town of Gomel, he was barely into his teens when he began studying at "Kruger's School of Drawing" in Minsk. There he met Chaim...
, painter (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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- William ConorWilliam ConorWilliam Conor OBE was a Belfast, Northern Ireland born artist.Celebrated for his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class life in Ulster, William Conor studied at the Government School of Design in Belfast in the 1890s...
- Irish painter (b.18811881 in art-Events:*The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium*Marie Bashkirtseff - The Studio...
) - Lee GatchLee GatchLee Gatch , an American artist, was born in a rural community near Baltimore. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the early 1920s and then studied in Europe for a few years before returning to the United States...
- painter and mixed-media artist - Orovida Camille PissarroOrovida Camille PissarroOrovida Pissarro , known for most of her life as Orovida, was a British painter and etcher. She was part of a family of artists, including her father Lucien Pissarro and grandfather, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro....
, English painter and etcher (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...
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- William Conor