1971 in art
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- Hans HaackeHans HaackeHans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,...
- Real Time Social System - 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....
- Mr and Mrs Clark and PercyMr and Mrs Clark and PercyMr and Mrs Clark and Percy is a painting by the British artist David Hockney. Painted between 1970 and 1971, it depicts the fashion designer Ossie Clark and the textile designer Celia Birtwell shortly after their wedding at which Hockney was Clark's best man. Hockney and Clark had been friends... - Fritz KoenigFritz KoenigFritz Koenig, born June 20, 1924, in Würzburg, Germany, is a sculptor best known outside his native country for "The Sphere," which once stood in the plaza between the two World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan but which now stands, its damage deliberately left unrepaired, in Battery Park as...
- Great Spherical Caryatid ("The SphereThe SphereThe Sphere is a large metallic sculpture by German sculptor Fritz Koenig, currently displayed in Battery Park, New York City, that once stood in the middle of Austin J. Tobin Plaza, the area between the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan...
"), designed for the World Trade CenterWorld Trade CenterThe original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
, now in Battery ParkBattery ParkBattery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years in order to protect the settlement behind them...
, NYC - Nabil KansoNabil KansoNabil Kanso is a Lebanese-American painter born in Beirut, Lebanon.His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large-scale formats...
, Place des Martyres (paintings)Place des Martyres (paintings)Place des Martyres is the title of a series of over 250 watercolors and drawings executed in New York and Beirut between 1971 and 1974 by Nabil Kanso...
, (1971 through 1974)
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- 2 September - Arnold ArreArnold ArreArnold Arre is a Filipino comic book writer and artist.-Biography:Arre has won National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle for his graphic novels The Mythology Class , a four-part action-adventure miniseries that was re-released as a Special Collected Edition by Adarna House in 2005 and...
, FilipinoFilipino peopleThe Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
comic book writer and artistComic Book ArtistComic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s...
. - 7 September - Sirpa Masalin, Finnish sculptor.
- 13 September - Stella McCartneyStella McCartneyStella Nina McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatles member Sir Paul McCartney and the late photographer and animal rights activist, Linda McCartney.-Early life:...
, English fashion designer. - 3 October - Oliver Briceño, Venezuelan Musician, Oboist
- 4 October - Jeremy BlakeJeremy BlakeJeremy Blake was an American digital artist and painter. His work included projected DVD installations, Type C prints, and collaborative film projects.-Biography:...
, American digital artist and painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(d.20072007 in art-Events:*18 October – In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits....
). - 27 October - Jade ArcadeJade ArcadeJade Arcade is composer, animator, musician, polymath and comic book artist.-Music:Arcade has mastered over a dozen instruments and possesses a vocal range that spans 6 octaves. During the 1980s, Jade toured across the US with glam rock bands Spellbinder and Monogram under the stage name of...
, American composer, musician and comic book artist. - date unknown
- Stéphane BreitwieserStéphane BreitwieserStéphane Breitwieser is a French art thief who admitted to stealing 239 artworks and other exhibits, worth an estimated US$1.4 billion , from 172 museums while travelling around Europe and working as a waiter, an average of one theft every 15 days...
, French art thief. - Amanda CooganAmanda CooganAmanda Coogan is an Irish performance artist, living and working in Dublin and Berlin. She studied Painting at Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, and Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and under the performance artist Marina...
, Irish performance artist. - Bernhard GálBernhard GálBernhard Gál is an Austrian artist, composer and musicologist.-Biography:Bernhard Gál works between the categories, creating music for instruments and electro-acoustic compositions, as well as art installations. Many of his intermedia art projects and sound installations present combinations of...
, Austrian composer and artist. - Nicolas GhesquièreNicolas GhesquièreNicolas Ghesquière is a fashion designer and is currently creative director for the house of Balenciaga owned by the Gucci Group . He grew up in Loudun, Vienne....
, French fashion designer. - Tsuyoshi ŌhashiTsuyoshi Ohashiis a Japanese manga artist, born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He is best known for his manga series Kaishain no Melody, which won the 1998 Bungeishunjū Manga Award...
, JapaneseJapanese peopleThe are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
manga artistMangakais the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
- Stéphane Breitwieser
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- 10 January - Coco ChanelCoco ChanelGabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist thought, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel...
, French fashion designer (b.18831883 in art-Works:*William Merritt Chase - Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler and Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ*William Powell Frith - A Private View at the Royal Academy*Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - The Dream*Pierre-Auguste Renoir:*Dance at Bougival...
) - 3 April - Jacques OchsJacques OchsJacques Ochs , was a Jewish Belgian artist and épée and foil fencer.-Early years, and art study:Ochs was Jewish, and was born in Nice, France. His family moved to Liège, Belgium, in 1893. Ochs studied art there at the Royal Academy of Art in Liège, graduating 1903. He won the Donnay Prize that year...
, French artist, Olympic fencing gold medallist (b.18831883 in art-Works:*William Merritt Chase - Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler and Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ*William Powell Frith - A Private View at the Royal Academy*Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - The Dream*Pierre-Auguste Renoir:*Dance at Bougival...
). - 11 April - Marcel GromaireMarcel GromaireMarcel Gromaire was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism.-Early life:...
, French 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...
) - 14 June - Gerald DillonGerald DillonGerard Dillon was an Irish artist.Born in Belfast, he left school at the age of fourteen and for seven years worked as a painter and decorator, mostly in London. From an early age he was interested in art, cinema, and theatre. About 1936 he started out as an artist, almost entirely self-taught but...
, Irish painter (b.19161916 in art-Events:* February 9 - 6.00 p.m. - Tristan Tzara "founds" Dadaism * May 20 - Boy with Baby Carriage is Norman Rockwell's first cover for The Saturday Evening Post...
). - 7 July - Ub IwerksUb IwerksUb Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, creator of Mickey Mouse, and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....
, American animatorAnimatorAn animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
, cartoonistCartoonistA cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
and special effects technician (b.19011901 in art-Works:*John Collier - In the Venusberg Tannhauser*Camille Pissarro - Hay Harvest at Éragny-January to June:*9 January - Chic Young, American cartoonist .*28 January - James Richmond Barthé, sculptor ....
). - 12 July - Kiyoshi YamashitaKiyoshi Yamashitawas a Japanese artist. He is famous for his wanderings throughout Japan, during which he wore only a vest, garnering the nickname "The Naked General".- Early life :Yamashita was born in Asakusa, Tokyo...
, Japanese outsider artOutsider ArtThe term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut , a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates.While...
ist (b.19221922 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: W B McInnes - Professor Harrison Moore*Newbery Medal - Rene Paul Chambellan-Works:*Max Beckmann - The Iron Footbridge*Lydia Field Emmet - Harriet Lancashire White and Her Children*L. S...
). - 27 August - Margaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her...
, American photographer and photojournalistPhotojournalismPhotojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...
(b.19041904 in art-Events:*Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert.*Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.-Works:-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Finding of Moses*Frederick McCubbin - The pioneer...
). - 9 November - Ceri RichardsCeri Richards-Biography:Richards was born in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Richards . He and his younger brother and sister, Owen and Esther, were brought up in a highly cultured, working-class environment...
, Welsh painter (b.19031903 in art-Events:*Isadora Duncan develops free dance, a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.*With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon d'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism...
). - 6 December - Jan AltinkJan AltinkJan Altink was a Dutch expressionist painter. Altink was a cofounder of the artists' association and movement De Ploeg , which he named in reference to breaking new ground...
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(b.18851885 in art-Events:*"Glasgow Boys" first exhibit collectively, at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.-Works:* Thomas Eakins - The Swimming Hole.*Stanhope Forbes - .*Ellen Day Hale - Self Portrait * Juan Luna - Odalisque....
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- I. Rice PereiraI. Rice PereiraIrene Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and Lyrical Abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school....
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painter, (b.19021902 in art-Events:*Georges Braque begins his studies at the Academie Humbert, where he meets Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.-Works:*Helen Allingham - View of Blackdown*Frank Weston Benson - Eleanor Holding a Shell...
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