1970 in art
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- 26 October - Garry TrudeauGarry TrudeauGarretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.-Background and education:...
's comic stripComic stripA comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
DoonesburyDoonesburyDoonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college...
debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States. - 27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VIPope Paul VIPaul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...
during his visit to ManilaManilaManila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
. - Tom KeatingTom KeatingFor the football player of the same name see Tom Keating .For the priest and author of the same name see Thomas Keating....
admits to forgeryArt forgeryArt forgery is the creation of works of art which are falsely attributed to other, usually more famous, artists. Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analysis techniques have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler....
of paintings in the style of Samuel PalmerSamuel PalmerSamuel Palmer was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.-Early life:...
and others.
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...
: Eric SmithEric Smith (artist)Eric John Smith is an award-winning Australian artist. Smith has won many of Australia's major art prizes multiple times including the Archibald Prize for portraiture three times; the Wynne Prize twice; the Sulman Prize three times; and the Blake Prize for Religious Art six times.-Life and...
- Gruzman - Architect - Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Daniel du JanerandDaniel du JanerandDaniel du Janerand was a French painter artistborn in the "Marais", center of Paris, on 18 July 1919.-Artistic life:*École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris;*Member founder of the Salon "Comparaisons";...
Works
- Gilbert and GeorgeGilbert and GeorgeGilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.-Early life:Gilbert Proesch was...
- The Singing Sculpture (performance) - Barbara HepworthBarbara HepworthDame Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art in Britain.-Life and work:Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield,...
- Family of Man - Alvin D. Loving Jr.Alvin D. LovingAlvin D. Loving Jr. was an African-American abstract expresionist and painter. His work is known for geometric shapes and complicated color relationships....
- Cube 27 (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...
) - Henry MooreHenry MooreHenry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art....
- Reclining Figure LH608 - 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...
- Indoor Landscape - Isamu NoguchiIsamu Noguchiwas a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
- Night Wind - Robert SmithsonRobert SmithsonRobert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art.-Background and education:Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York....
- Spiral JettySpiral JettyThe Spiral Jetty, considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson, is an earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970.Built entirely of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah, it forms a , ...
January to June
- 17 January - Genndy TartakovskyGenndy TartakovskyGenndy Borisovich Tartakovsky is a Russian-American television animator, director and producer. His best-known creations are Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and Sym-Bionic Titan...
, Russian-born 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...
. - 22 January - Alex RossAlex RossNelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is an American comic book painter, illustrator, and plotter. He is praised for his realistic, human depictions of classic comic book characters. Since the 1990s he has done work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an...
, American comic bookComic bookA comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
painter and illustratorIllustratorAn Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text... - 10 February - Peter RichardsPeter Richards (artist)Peter Richards is both an artist and curator living and working in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 1994. Born in Cardiff in 1970 Richards studied a BA in Fine Art at Howard Gardens, Cardiff part of the University of Wales. He moved to Northern Ireland to further his studies, completing an MPhil...
, artist and curator - 15 February - Shepard FaireyShepard FaireyFrank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His...
, American artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, graphic designerGraphic designerA graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
and illustratorIllustratorAn Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
. - 27 February - Matthias LechnerMatthias LechnerMatthias Lechner is a motion picture set designer and art director. He worked as an art director and designer on the animated films Help! I'm a Fish and Space Chimps, as well as Laura's Star, among other films...
, German set designer and art directorArt directorThe art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
. - 12 March - Marine DeltermeMarine DeltermeMarine Delterme is a French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.-Early life and private life:Marine Delterme was born in Toulouse, France. She grew up in Paris. Her parents worked in the art restoration business...
, French actress, 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...
, sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and former model. - 3 May - Jeffrey SebeliaJeffrey SebeliaJeffrey Sebelia is an American fashion designer and founder of the clothing label Cosa Nostra, which he headed from a loft on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles...
, American fashion designer. - 9 May - Damian LoebDamian LoebDamian Loeb is an American painter. Self-taught, he moved to New York City in the early 1990s.Discovered by Jeffrey Deitch, founder of Deitch Projects and current director of LAMoCA, Loeb had his first solo in 1999...
, American painter. - 26 May - Nobuhiro WatsukiNobuhiro Watsukiis a Japanese manga artist, best known for his samurai-themed series Rurouni Kenshin. He once worked as an assistant for his favorite author Takeshi Obata.-Biography:...
, Japanese 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...
. - 1 June - Joshua CompstonJoshua CompstonJoshua Richard Compston was a London gallerist whose space, Factual Nonsense, was closely associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists . Compston graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1992...
- British gallerist (d.19961996 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville*Jan Amos Comenius Medal – Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children* The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney...
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July to December
- 6 July - Grant BondGrant Bond (cartoonist)Grant Bond is a comic book artist, writer and award-winning editorial cartoonist living in Kansas City, Kansas.-Biography:Grant Bond was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. His love for art was a predominate fixture in his youth and early adult life due to the support and influence of his...
, American comic bookComic bookA comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
artist and writer. - 9 July - Benoit Pierre EmeryBenoit Pierre EmeryBenoit Pierre Emery is a French art director and a fashion designer based in Paris, France.-Biography:A graduate of the Royal College of Art and of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Benoit Emery began his career as a freelancer, working as an art director for Canal + and Louis...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
art directorArt directorThe art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
and fashion designer. - 4 August - Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator.
- 22 November - Aleksander BalosAleksander BalosAleksander Balos is a Polish artist and figurative painter, who lives in the United States and is a naturalised American.-Life and art:Aleksander Balos was born in 1970 in the town of Gliwice, Poland. His parents, Jan and Janina, were artists, who encouraged him to study art in Gliwice Art Center,...
, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter. - date unknown
- Stéphane DucretStéphane DucretStéphane Ducret is a Swiss contemporary artist born in 1970 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and living in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 2006.-Life:...
, SwissSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
contemporaryContemporary artContemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
artist. - Emily JacirEmily JacirEmily Jacir is a Palestinian artist. Born in Bethlehem, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She divides her time between New York and Ramallah....
, PalestinianPalestinian peopleThe Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
artist. - Tomoki KyodaTomoki Kyodais a Japanese animation director and animator.Kyoda was born in Osaka, Japan. Formerly a graphic designer, he changed his occupation to the animation industry, having aspired to be an animation director since his childhood...
, Japanese animation director and animator. - Vincent ParonnaudVincent ParonnaudPascal Stadler , a.k.a. Winshluss, is a French comics artist and filmmaker. He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film Persepolis , for which they received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as well...
, French comics artistComics artistA comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...
and filmmaker. - David QuinnDavid Quinn (Irish artist)David Quinn is an Irish artist.Quinn was born in County Galway and grew up in Sligo. He studied art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and painted there for a number of years after graduating...
, Irish artist.
- Stéphane Ducret
January to June
- 27 January - Rita AngusRita AngusRita Angus was a New Zealand painter born in Hastings. Along with Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston, she is credited as one of the leading figures in twentieth century New Zealand art...
, New Zealand painter (b.19081908 in art-Events:*Hugh Lane founds the Dublin City Gallery.*Paul Ranson founds the Académie Ranson in Paris.*Allied Artists' Association holds its first exhibition, at the Royal Albert Hall in London....
). - 25 February - Mark RothkoMark RothkoMark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
, LatviaLatviaLatvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
n-born American painter and printmaker (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...
). - 2 March - Marc-Aurèle FortinMarc-Aurèle FortinMarc-Aurèle Fortin was a Québécois painter.His works are displayed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal...
, Canadian painter (b.18881888 in art-Events:*July 14 - The Monument à Léon Gambetta, by Jean-Paul Aubé, is inaugurated at the Louvre*Paul Ranson, Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis become fellow students at the Académie Julian*Vincent Van Gogh begins his Sunflowers series-Exhibitions:...
). - 8 March
- Waldo PeirceWaldo PeirceWaldo Peirce was an American painter, born in Bangor, Maine.Peirce was both a prominent painter and a well-known character. He was sometimes called "the American Renoir"...
, American painter (b.18841884 in art-Works:*Edvard Munch - Morning*Georges-Pierre Seurat - Bathers at Asnières-Births:*5 February - Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect -Works:*Edvard Munch - Morning*Georges-Pierre Seurat - Bathers at Asnières-Births:*5 February - Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect...
). - Anton RäderscheidtAnton RäderscheidtAnton Räderscheidt was a German painter who was a leading figure of the New Objectivity.Räderscheidt was born in Cologne. His father was a schoolmaster who also wrote poetry. From 1910–1914, Räderscheidt studied at the Academy of Düsseldorf. He was severely wounded in the First World War, during...
, German 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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- Waldo Peirce
- 13 May - William DobellWilliam DobellSir William Dobell, OBE was an Australian artist .The electoral Division of Dobell is named after him.- Life :...
, Australian sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and painter (b.18991899 in art-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Little Girl with a Cat*Jules Dalou - Monument à Alphand*Paul Gauguin - Two Women*William Harnett - Violin*Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer evening by Skagen's beach. Artist and his wife...
). - 29 May - 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...
, German-bornGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
American sculptor (b.19361936 in art-Events:*November 23 - Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam are featured in the first issue of Life magazine.-Works:*Balthus - Andre Derain...
). - 6 June - Camille BomboisCamille BomboisCamille Bombois was a French naïve painter especially noted for paintings of circus scenes.Bombois was born in Venarey-les-Laumes in the Côte-d'Or, under humble circumstances. His childhood was spent living on a barge and attending a local school until the age of twelve, when he became a farm worker...
, French naïve painterNaïve artNaïve art is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. While many naïve artists appear, from their works, to have little or no formal art training, this is often not true...
(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...
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July to December
- 4 July - Barnett NewmanBarnett NewmanBarnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
, American artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
(b.19051905 in art-Events:* October - The Fauvist artists, notably Henri Matisse, first exhibit, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.* The Art Deco movement begins in France.* Léon Bonnat succeeds Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts....
). - 7 July - Laura KnightLaura KnightDame Laura Knight, DBE was an English Impressionist painter known for painting the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus.-Early life and education:...
, English ImpressionistImpressionismImpressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
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...
). - 29 November - Walter StuempfigWalter StuempfigWalter Stuempfig was an American artist and teacher.He was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania to a moderately wealthy family. After graduation from the Germantown Academy, he enrolled as an architecture student in the University of Pennsylvania...
, American painter (b.19141914 in art-Events:*The Baltimore Museum of Art is founded at Johns Hopkins University.*Nina Hamnett and Amedeo Modigliani meet for the first time in Montparnasse.* Clive Bell's formalist study Art published....
) - 1 December - Hermine DavidHérmine DavidHermine Lionette Cartan David was a French painter and the wife of Jules Pascin....
, French painter (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....
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- Robert LaurentRobert LaurentRobert Laurent was an American sculptor, known for his sensitive interpretations of the human form.Laurent was born in Concarneau, Brittany France. There, at the age of 12 his artistic talents were recognized by art connoisseur Hamilton Easter Field who then brought him to the United States...
, American sculptor (b.18901890 in art-Works:*William-Adolphe Bouguereau - A Little Coaxing*Thomas Dewing - Summer*John Haberle - The Palette*William Harnett - The Faithful Colt *Ferdinand Hodler - Night...
). - Georges MalkineGeorges MalkineGeorges Alexandre Malkine was the only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924; the other signatories were, for the most part, writers...
, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist ManifestoSurrealist ManifestoTwo Surrealist Manifestos were issued by the Surrealist movement, in 1924 and 1929. The first was written by André Breton, the second was supervised by him. Breton drafted a third Surrealist manifesto which was never issued.-First manifesto:...
of 1924 (b.18981898 in art-Paintings:*Herbert James Draper – The Lament for Icarus*Paul Gauguin – The White Horse *Edvard Munch – Metabolism-January to June:*3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer...
). - Ze'ev RabanZe'ev RabanZe’ev Raban was a leading painter, decorative artist, and industrial designer of the Bezalel school style, and was one of the founders of the Israeli art world.-Life:...
, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i painter (b.1890).
- Robert Laurent