1986 in art
Encyclopedia
Events
- 19 August – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
- Opening of the Musée d'OrsayMusée d'OrsayThe Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture,...
(formerly the Gare d'OrsayGare d'OrsayGare d'Orsay is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans . It was the first electrified urban rail terminal in the world, opened 28 May 1900, in time for the...
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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...
: Davida AllenDavida AllenDavida Frances Allen , is an Australian painter, film maker and writer.-Career:Allen studied under Betty Churcher at the Stuartholme School, Brisbane and later under Roy Churcher at Brisbane Central Technical College...
– Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera - Sulman PrizeSulman PrizeThe Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest running art prizes, having been established in 1936.It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney.-Criteria:The Sir John...
– Wendy SharpeWendy SharpeWendy Sharpe is an Australian artist. Winner of the Sulman Prize in 1986 with Black Sun - Morning and Night and the Archibald Prize in 1996 with Self Portrait - as Diana of Erskineville, she has entered the Archibald Prize at least 6 times and been hung at least 3 times...
– Black Sun – Morning and Night - 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...
– 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...
- Shortlisted were: Art & LanguageArt & LanguageArt & Language is a shifting collaboration among conceptual artists that has undergone many changes since its inception in the late 1960s. Their early work, as well as their journal Art-Language, first published in 1969, is regarded as an important influence on much conceptual art both in the...
, Victor BurginVictor BurginVictor Burgin is an artist and a writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s and at that time was most noted for being a political photographer of the left, who would fuse photographs and words in the same picture. He has worked with photography and film,...
, Derek JarmanDerek JarmanMichael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.-Life:...
, Steven McKenna and Bill WoodrowBill WoodrowBill Woodrow is a British sculptor.Woodrow was one of a number of British sculptors to emerge in the late 1970s, the others including Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg....
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- Shortlisted were: Art & Language
Works
- John DoubledayJohn DoubledayJohn Doubleday is a British painter and sculptor famous for his public sculptures and statues. He is a figurative sculptor, who works mostly in bronze. He was influenced by Charles Despiau, while spending time at the Musée Bourdelle, Paris....
– Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England) - Igor MitorajIgor MitorajIgor Mitoraj is a Polish artist born in Oederan, Germany.-Biography:He studied painting at the Kraków School of Art and at the Kraków Academy of Art under Tadeusz Kantor. After graduating, he had several joint exhibitions, and held his first solo exhibition in 1967 at the Krzysztofory Gallery in...
– - Jamie WyethJamie WyethJames Browning Wyeth is a contemporary American realist painter. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth...
– Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra Foundation for American Art)
January to June
- 6 March – Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'KeeffeGeorgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists...
American 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....
). - 26 April – Dechko UzunovDechko UzunovDechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....
, Bulgarian 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...
). - 11 May – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American, art collector, philanthropist and chairman of Philadelphia Art Museum (b. 19101910 in art-Events:*Robert Delaunay marries Sonia Terk.*Bronze sculptor Robert Kionsek joins the Berlin workshop of Ferdinand Preiss to form the PK firm; the two men combine their specialties to produce sculptures in bronze and ivory.-Exhibitions:...
). - 31 May – Jane FrankJane FrankJane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...
, American painter, sculptor, mixed mediaMixed mediaMixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
artist and textile artist (b. 19181918 in art-Events:*June 18 - Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.*December 3 - Founding of the November Group of expressionist artists.-Works:*Katherine Sophie Dreier - Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp*Paul Klee - Flower Myth; Warning of the Ships...
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July to December
- 7 April – Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalistMinimalismMinimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...
painter (b. 19211921 in art-Events:*Paul Sérusier publishes his ABC of Painting.*André Delatte opens his glasswares studio in Nancy.-Works:*Charles Demuth - Incense of a New Church*Auguste Herbin - Le Cateau-Cambrésis*Fernand Léger - Still Life with a Beer Mug...
) - 22 July – Floyd GottfredsonFloyd GottfredsonArthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as Carl Barks had on the Donald Duck comics...
, American cartoonistCartoonistA cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
(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....
). - 31 August – 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....
, English artist and 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. 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...
) - 9 September – Albert MaletAlbert Malet (painter)Albert Malet was a French painter of the Rouen school.Malet was born at Bosc-le-Hard. A retrospective of his work was held at the hôtel de Bourgtheroulde at Rouen in 2006.- Bibliography :...
, French painter (b. 19121912 in art-Events:*Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes publish the first major treatise on Cubism, entitled Du Cubisme.*William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.*René Lalique stages his first exhibit of his glasswares — as does Maurice Marinot....
) - 12 September
- Jacques Henri LartigueJacques Henri LartigueJacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter.Born in Courbevoie to a wealthy family, he is most famous for his stunning photos of automobile races, planes and fashionable Parisian women from the turn of the century.He started taking photos when he was 7, his subject matter being...
, French photographer and painter (b. 18941894 in art-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Spring *Paul Gauguin - Breton Peasants *Claude Monet - Rouen Cathedral *Edvard Munch...
). - Ernst HaasErnst HaasErnst Haas was an Austrian artist and influential photographer noted for his innovations in color photography, experiments in abstract light and form, and as a member of the Magnum Photos agency....
, Austrian photographer (b. 19211921 in art-Events:*Paul Sérusier publishes his ABC of Painting.*André Delatte opens his glasswares studio in Nancy.-Works:*Charles Demuth - Incense of a New Church*Auguste Herbin - Le Cateau-Cambrésis*Fernand Léger - Still Life with a Beer Mug...
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- Jacques Henri Lartigue
- 11 October – Barker FairleyBarker FairleyBarker Fairley, OC was a British-born painter, writer, and educator and a Canadian citizen. Although educated and brought up in a strong European tradition and background, his important life's scholarship in German literature and art criticism was done in Canada and was about Canadian art and...
, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (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....
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