1977 in art
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- Starr KempfStarr KempfStarr Gideon Kempf was a sculptor, architect, and artist best known for his graceful steel wind kinetic sculptures.- Life :...
constructs the first of his "wind sculptures". - documenta 6Documentadocumenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
takes place. - Douglas CrimpDouglas CrimpDouglas Crimp is an American professor in art history based at the University of Rochester.- Biography :Born in Idaho, Crimp went to Tulane University in New Orleans on a scholarship to study art history. His career started after moving to New York in 1967, where he worked as an art critic,...
curates "Pictures," featuring Jack GoldsteinJack GoldsteinJack Goldstein was a Canadian born, California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom.-Early life and education:...
, Cindy ShermanCindy ShermanCindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
, Sherrie LevineSherrie LevineSherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
and others, at Artists Space in New York.
Exhibitions
- Retrospective of Valentine HugoValentine HugoValentine Hugo was an artist; she was born Valentine Gross in Boulogne-sur-Mer and died in Paris.Valentine studied painting in Paris, and in 1919 married French artist Jean Hugo , great-grandson of Victor Hugo...
at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes. - Retrospective of Frida KahloFrida KahloFrida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....
at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Works
- Donald JuddDonald JuddDonald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...
- Untitled (Meter Box) - Marina AbramovicMarina AbramovicMarina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
and UlayUlayUlay , real name Frank Uwe Laysiepen is an important performance artist of the late 60s and the 70s.In all his works the central content is the relationship of body, space and society...
- Expansion in Space - Lucian FreudLucian FreudLucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
- Naked Man with Rat - Gordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's...
- Jacob's Ladder - Robert MorrisRobert Morris (artist)Robert Morris is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation...
- Williams Mirrors - Cindy ShermanCindy ShermanCindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
- Untitled Film Stills (through 1980) - 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...
- The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977)The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977)The Vortices of Wrath is a triptych painted by Nabil Kanso in 1977. It is part of the Lebanon series began in 1975 in response to the Lebanese Civil War. The triptych is done in oil on canvas measuring 3 X 7.60 meters...
1977 - Jean TinguelyJean TinguelyJean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics...
- Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (both kinetic sculptures in BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
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Births
- 8 February - Yucef MerhiYucef MerhiYucef Merhi is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer, based in New York.-Life and work:Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela and New School University.. His artistic practice began in the mid 80s...
, VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n artist, poet and computer programmer. - 16 December - Kevin GillespieKevin GillespieKevin J. Gillespie was born on December 16, 1977 in Richmond Hill, New York. He is an American comic book creator and graphic artist. He is best known as the creator of Swearing In Front Of Children and for his independent company, Richmond Hill Comics. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New...
, 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...
creator and graphic artist.
Deaths
- 27 April - Charles AlstonCharles AlstonCharles Henry Alston was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's...
, 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...
, muralist, and teacherTeacherA teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
(b.19071907 in art-Events:*Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.* Adolphe Valette joins the staff of Manchester Municipal School of Art.* The Chicago Plan is produced by Daniel Burnham and Edward H...
). - 3 July - Gertrude AbercrombieGertrude AbercrombieGertrude Abercrombie was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists," Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work.-Personal...
, American painter (b.19091909 in art-Events:*Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain.*Pablo Picasso and George Braque create the first works of analytical cubism.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Favourite Custom...
) - 21 July - Lee MillerLee MillerElizabeth 'Lee' Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer...
, American photographerPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
(b.19071907 in art-Events:*Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.* Adolphe Valette joins the staff of Manchester Municipal School of Art.* The Chicago Plan is produced by Daniel Burnham and Edward H...
). - 23 August - Naum GaboNaum GaboNaum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art.-Early life:...
, Russian 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...
(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...
). - 11 September - Augustus DunbierAugustus DunbierAugustus William Dunbier , was a Nebraskan Impressionist painter, best known for his landscapes.Dunbier was educated in Germany and the Art Institute of Chicago...
, American 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:...
). - 23 September - John NashJohn Nash (artist)John Northcote Nash CBE RA was a British painter of landscape and still-life, wood-engraver and illustrator, particularly of botanic works.-Biography:...
, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (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...
). - 20 October - Marie-Thérèse WalterMarie-Thérèse WalterMarie-Thérèse Walter was the French mistress and model of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935, and the mother of his daughter, Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and still living with his first wife, Olga Khokhlova...
, mistress of Pablo PicassoPablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
(b.19091909 in art-Events:*Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain.*Pablo Picasso and George Braque create the first works of analytical cubism.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Favourite Custom...
). - 5 November - René GoscinnyRené GoscinnyRené Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b.19261926 in artArt through the years-Works:*Alexander Stirling Calder - Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Alberto Giacometti - Spoon Woman*Hannah Höch - Love*Georges Malkine - Nuit d'Amour*Henri Matisse - Yellow Odalisque-Births:...
). - 21 December - Seán KeatingSeán KeatingSeán Keating was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland...
, Irish romantic-realist 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.18891889 in art-Events:*Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén marries fellow-artist Peder Severin Krøyer.*The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition was held in Melbourne, Australia-Works:*Paul Gauguin - Yellow Christ*Auguste Rodin - The Burghers of Calais...
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- Walter Pritchard, stained glass artist
- Philip Lindsey ClarkPhilip Lindsey ClarkPhilip Lindsey Clark was an English sculptor. He first served with 28th London Regiment and was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment on the 30 September 1916. He was awarded the D.S.O as well as the 1915 Star, and the British and Victory Medals and appears to have been “mentioned in...
, sculptor