1988 In Art

Events from the year 1988 in art.

Events

*Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl
*Donatello's bronze '' Judith and Holofernes'' is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and moved inside the Palazzo Vecchio.
*David Hockney begins a series of paintings at his seaside home in Malibu, California.

Exhibitions

*July – '' Freeze'', Surrey Docks, London

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – ''John Beard''
*Turner Prize – Tony Cragg

Works

*Artists of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia – ''Aboriginal Memorial''
*Francis Bacon – '' Second Version of Triptych 1944''
* Gordon Bennett – '' Outsider''
* Wayne Chabre
**Gargoyles (Eugene, Oregon)
***''Alan Turing''
***''Drosophila Fly Head''
**''Grasshopper'' (sculpture, Salem, Oregon)
*Eldon Garnet – ''Little Glenn'' (bronze statue)
*Rachel Joynt – ''People's Island'' (brass installation, Dublin)
* Nabil Kanso – '' Dance of Salome'' (first series)
*Judith Weinshall Liberman – '' Holocaust Wall Hangings'' (first works in series)
*Richard Lippold – '' Ex Stasis'' (sculpture)
*Paul Matisse – ''Kendall Band'' (sound sculpture)
*David K. Nelson, Jr. – ''Mirth & Girth''
* Louise Nevelson – '' Sky Landscape'' (sculpture)
* Éamonn O'Doherty – '' Anna Livia'' (bronze installation, Dublin)
*Fred Parhad – ''Ashurbanipal'' (bronze, San Francisco)
*Zlatko Pounov and Steven Lowe – Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (San Francisco)
*Paula Rego –
The Dance
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*Gerhard Richter – '' Betty''
*Susan Dorothea White – '' The First Supper''
*Christopher Wool – '' Apocalypse Now'' ("word painting")

Births

*12 September – Alireza Shojaian, Iranian painter

Deaths

January to June

*19 January – Cesare Brandi, art critic, historian, and specialist in conservation-restoration theory (b. 1906).
*31 January – Nedeljko Gvozdenović, a world-renowned Serbian painter (b. 1902).
*3 February – Ronald Bladen, American sculptor (b. 1918).
*19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (b. 1902).
*28 March – Neil Williams, American painter (b. 1934).
*31 March – Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b. 1924).
*2 April – E. Chambré Hardman, Irish-born British photographer (b. 1898).
*3 April – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907).
*17 April
** Toni Frissell, American photographer (b. 1907]).
** Louise Nevelson, Ukraine, Ukrainian-born American artist (b. 1900).
*26 April – Guy Boyd, Australian potter and figurative sculptor (b. 1923)
*4 May – Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (b. 1901).
*6 May – Constantino Nivola, Italian sculptor (b. 1911)
*16 May – Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (b. 1924).
*16 June – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (b. 1956).

July to December

*12 July – Julian Trevelyan, English printmaker (b. 1910).
*24 July – Mira Schendel, Swiss-born Brazilian modernist artist and poet (b. 1919).
*12 August – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b. 1960).
*21 August – Ray Eames, American artist and architect (b. 1912).
*26 September – Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (b. 1913).
*29 September – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912).
*28 October – Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b. 1910)
*12 November – Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (b. 1900).
*25 November – Alphaeus Philemon Cole 'sic.''
*2 December – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904).
*30 December – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (b. 1904).Brenson, M
Isamu Noguchi, the Sculptor, Dies at 84
''The New York Times'' December 31, 1988.

Date unknown

*Reginald George Haggar, English ceramic designer (b. 1905).

See also

* 1988 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

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1980s in art
Years of the 20th century in art