1980 In Art

Events from the year 1980 in art.

Events

* January 1 – Gary Larson's single-panel comic ''The Far Side'' debuts in the ''San Francisco Chronicle''.
* February 7 – Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour opens at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
* May 22–September 16 – Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States.
* December 8 – Annie Leibovitz photographs John Lennon with Yoko Ono in New York for the cover of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine five hours before his murder.
* Robert Hughes presents a series (with accompanying book), ''The Shock of the New'', for BBC Television in the United Kingdom on "art and the century of change".
* Benedikt Taschen opens a comic book store in Cologne which will evolve into the art book publisher Taschen.

Exhibitions

*February 17 until April 6 - "Afro-American Abstraction" (curated by April Kingsley at MoMA PS1 in New York City.

Works

* Basil Blackshaw – ''Green Landscape''
* Arbit Blatas – ''The Monument of the Holocaust'' (reliefs, first edition)
* Alan Chung Hung – ''Gate to the Northwest Passage'' (sculpture, Vancouver, British Columbia)
* David Inshaw – '' The River Bank (Ophelia)''
* Keith Jellum – '' Mimir'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
* Nabil Kanso
** '' Apocalyptic Rider''
** '' Time Suspended in Space (South Africa)''
* Peter Kennard – ''Haywain with Cruise Missiles''
* Georgia O'Keeffe – ''Llama in the Desert''
* Bryan Organ –
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
'
* Howard Post – ''Moving Cattle''
* George Segal –
Gay Liberation
' (sculpture)

Awards

*John Moores Painting Prize - Michael Moon for "Box-room"

Births

Deaths

January to June

* January 9 – Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (b. 1908).
* January 18 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (b. 1904).
* January 20 – William Roberts, painter (b. 1904).
* January 26 – Dolly Rudeman, Dutch graphic designer (b. 1902).
* February 4 – Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (b. 1883).
* February 6 – Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (b. 1907).
* February 17 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903).
* February 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (b. 1886).
* March 5 – John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (b. 1901).
* March 18 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (b. 1898).
* April 21
** Ľudovít Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (b. 1902).
** Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (b. 1928).
* May 15 – Len Lye, New Zealand-born American kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (b. 1901).
* May 16 – Izis Bidermanas, Lithuanian-born photographer (b. 1911).
* June 7 – Philip Guston, Canadian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1913).
* June 23 – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1904).

July to December

* July 16 – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American painter and art teacher (b. 1898)
* August 26 – Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (b. 1908).
* September 14 – Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (b. 1906).
* November 22 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901).
* December 26 – Tony Smith, American sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (b. 1912).
* December 30 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (b. 1915).

See also

* 1980 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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

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