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1978 In Art
Events from the year 1978 in art. Events * 27 June – '' Stitching the Standard'' by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector. Awards * Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – ''Art, Life and the other thing'' * John Moores Painting Prize - Noel Forster for "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle" Works * Zdzisław Beksiński – '' AA78'' * Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri * Dan Flavin – ''untitled (to the real Dan Hill)'' * Helen Frankenthaler – ''Cleveland Symphony Orchestra'' * David Gentleman – "Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London) * Jack Goldstein – ''The Jump'' * Michael Heizer – '' Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2)'' (land art, Houston, Texas) * Bryan Hunt – ''Big Twist'' (bronze, Houston, Texas) * Nabil Kanso – ''Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute'' * Liz Leyh – ''Concrete Cows'' (Milton Keynes) * Odd Nerdrum – '' The Murder of Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stitching The Standard
Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 18521 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Biography Leighton was the son of the artist Charles Blair Leighton (1823–1855) and Caroline Leighton (née Boosey). He was educated at University College School, leaving at 15 to work for a tea merchant. Wishing to study art, he went to evening classes in South Kensington and then to Heatherley's School in Newman Street, London. Aged 21, he entered the Royal Academy Schools. Among his first commissions were monochrome illustrations for ''Cassell's Magazine'' and its ''Book of British Ballads''. His first painting to be exhibited at the Royal Academy was ''A Flaw in the Title'' in 1874; it sold for £200. He soon gave up "black and white" illustrations, working for the rest of his career in oil on canvas. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charing Cross Tube Station
Charing Cross (sometimes informally abbreviated as Charing +, Charing X, CHX or CH+) is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster. The station is served by the Bakerloo and Northern lines and provides an interchange with Charing Cross mainline station. On the Bakerloo line it is between Embankment and Piccadilly Circus stations and on the Northern line it is between Embankment and Leicester Square stations. The station is in fare zone 1. Charing Cross was originally two separate stations, known for most of their existence as Trafalgar Square (on the Bakerloo line) and Strand (on the Northern line). The Bakerloo line platforms were opened by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway in 1906 and the Northern line platforms by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway in 1907. In the 1970s, in preparation for the opening of the Jubilee line, the two earlier stations were connected together with new below ground passageways. When the Jubilee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nature of art, the making of art and the definition of art: a meta-art that arose when strategies of the Minimalists were expanded to focus on site and context. As well as an aesthetic agenda, the work progressed from perceptions of the physical properties of the gallery to the social and political context, largely taking the form of permanent public sculpture in the last two decades of a highly prolific career, whose diversity could exasperate his critics.Simon Taylor, ''Dennis Oppenheim, New Works'', Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY: 2001. Biography and Education Oppenheim's father was a Russian immigrant and his mother a native of California. Oppenheim was born in Electric City, Washington, while his father was working as an engineer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Murder Of Andreas Baader
''The Murder of Andreas Baader'' () is a 1978 painting by the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum. It depicts the speculative murder of Andreas Baader, one of the leaders of the far-left organisation Red Army Faction, in the Stammheim Prison in 1977. The painting is in the collections of the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Description Andreas Baader is partially naked in his cell in the Stammheim Prison. Two men hold Baader while a third lies beaten on the floor before him. A fourth man in trenchcoat executes Baader with a gun shot to the back of the neck. The men are positioned in the shape of a St Andrew's Cross. The composition and chiaroscuro are inspired by Baroque art, with associations to Caravaggio's '' Crucifixion of St. Peter''. Creation Baader had died on 18 October 1977 in what became known as the Stammheim "Death Night", when also Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe died. In the official version they committed suicide, but rumours and theories spread quickly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Nerdrum
Odd Nerdrum (born 8 April 1944) is a Norwegian figurative painter, born in Sweden, and considered to be one of the greatest living classical figurative painters. His work is held by museums worldwide. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative. Primary influences by the painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio help place his work in direct conflict with the abstraction and conceptual art considered acceptable in much of Norway. Nerdrum creates six to eight paintings a year. They include still life paintings of small, everyday objects (like bricks), portraits and self-portraits, and large paintings allegorical and apocalyptic in nature. The figures in Nerdrum's paintings are often dressed as if from another time and place. Nerdrum was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, because his parents were resistance fighters who had fled German-occupied Norway during World War II. At the end of the war Nerdrum returned to Norway with his parents. By 1950 Nerdrum's parents had di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes. Approximately 25% of the urban area is parkland or woodland and includes two Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). In the 1960s, the UK government decided that a further generation of new towns in the South East of England was needed to relieve housing congestion in London. This new town (in planning documents, 'new city'), Milton Keynes, was to be the biggest yet, with a target population of 250,000 and a 'designated area' of about . At designation, its area incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Fenny Stratford, Wolverton and Stony Stratford, along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between. These settlements had an extensive histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concrete Cows
The ''Concrete Cows'' in Milton Keynes, England are an iconic work of sculpture, created in 1978 by the American artist Liz Leyh. There are three cows and three calves, approximately half life size. The ''Cows'' are constructed from scrap, skinned with fibre glass reinforced concrete donated by a local builder. Context The artist was an " artist-in-residence" in the early days of Milton Keynes and part of her role was to lead community participation in art. The ''Cows'' was one of a number of pieces created during her stay. Other examples of her work here include ''The Owl and The Pussy Cat'' at Netherfield and a concrete mural near the leisure centre at Stantonbury. They were originally constructed at Stacey Hill Farm near Wolverton, where she had set up her studio. The base armatures were metal, with chicken wire used to create the general shape, then stuffed with newspaper. The original colouring of the cows was achieved using dyes. Some cows were brown. It is only th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Leyh
The ''Concrete Cows'' in Milton Keynes, England are an iconic work of sculpture, created in 1978 by the American artist Liz Leyh. There are three cows and three calves, approximately half life size. The ''Cows'' are constructed from scrap, skinned with fibre glass reinforced concrete donated by a local builder. Context The artist was an "artist-in-residence" in the early days of Milton Keynes and part of her role was to lead community participation in art. The ''Cows'' was one of a number of pieces created during her stay. Other examples of her work here include ''The Owl and The Pussy Cat'' at Netherfield and a concrete mural near the leisure centre at Stantonbury. They were originally constructed at Stacey Hill Farm near Wolverton, where she had set up her studio. The base armatures were metal, with chicken wire used to create the general shape, then stuffed with newspaper. The original colouring of the cows was achieved using dyes. Some cows were brown. It is only throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute
''Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute'' is the subject of two mural-scale paintings made by Nabil Kanso in 1978–79. One is titled ''49-Second (Hiroshima)'' done in oil on canvas measuring 3 X 5.50 meters (10 X 18 feet), the other ''11-Seconds (Nagasaki)'' oil-on-canvas triptych A triptych ( ; from the Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided ... measuring 3 X 4.60 meters (10 X 14 feet) center, and 2.75 X 1.32 meters (9 X 6 feet) each side.''Nabil Kanso: The Split of Life Paintings 1974-94'', pp. 34-37, NEV Editions, 1996 References External linksHiroshima Nagasaki paintings Modern paintings War paintings 1978 paintings 1979 paintings Anti-war paintings Works about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cities in art Series of paintings by Nabil Kanso {{20C-painting-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Kanso
Nabil Kanso (1940-2019) was an American painter. Kanso began his career in New York. His works dealt with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and were marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large-scale formats. They reflected movement and tension embodying intense colors and symbolic forms addressing social, political, and war issues. The Vietnam War and the Lebanese Civil War profoundly affected the development and scope of his themes dealing with violence and war. His long-running '' Split of Life'' series encompassed an extensive range of enormous paintings depicting scenes of human brutality and suffering. Life and work Nabil Kanso grew up in a house adorned with Italian and Oriental art. In 1961, he went to England, and attended the London Polytechnic studying mathematics and science. In 1966, Kanso moved to New York, and enrolled at New York University where he received BA and MA in art history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Twist
''Big Twist'' is an outdoor 1978 bronze sculpture by American artist Bryan Hunt, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. See also * 1978 in art * List of public art in Houston Outdoor sculptures * '' African Elephant'' (1982) * Alexander Hodge Memorial * '' Atropos Key'' (1972), Miller Outdoor Theatre * Beer Can House * '' Broken Obelisk'', Rothko Chapel * '' Brownie'' (1905), Houston Zoo * '' Bygones'' (1976), Me ... References 1978 establishments in Texas 1978 sculptures Bronze sculptures in Texas Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden Sculptures by American artists {{Texas-sculpture-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Hunt
Bryan Hunt is an American sculptor who was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 7, 1947. His family moved to Tampa, Florida in 1955. He worked at the Kennedy Space Center as an engineer's aide and draftsman, 1967–1968, during the NASA Apollo Program. In 1968, he moved to Los Angeles to enroll in the Otis Art Institute, where he received a BFA in 1971. Career overview Hunt traveled to New York City and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1972. Hunt returned to Venice, California until 1976 when he moved to New York. In California, he had his first solo exhibition at Jack Glenn Gallery in Newport Beach in 1975, and soon after at the Clocktower in New York City. Hunt's first solo show in Europe, organized by artist James Lee Byars, was ''Empire State, Phobos, Universal Joint'' at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. In 1978 Hunt was included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's "Young American Artists." Hunt's work '' Big Twist'' was instal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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