1962 in art
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[edit] Events
- February 6 - March 4 - Jane Frank, solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery.
- February 10 - Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer are excluded from the Situationist International (SI).
- March 15 - Ansgar Elde and Jørgen Nash are excluded from the Situationist International.
- May 25 - The new Coventry Cathedral, designed by Basil Spence, is consecrated in England; artworks incorporated include: the exterior sculpture St Michael's Victory over the Devil by Jacob Epstein; the tapestry Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph, designed by Graham Sutherland; the Mater Dolorosa sculpture by John Bridgeman; the Baptistry window by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens; and the engraved glass Screen of Saints and Angels by John Hutton.
- July 9 - Andy Warhol's first one-man gallery exhibition as a fine artist opens at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, marking the West Coast debut of pop art and featuring his Campbell's Soup Cans.[1][2]
- October 31 - The Sidney Janis Gallery mounts International Exhibition of the New Realists, a survey of contemporary American Pop Art and the European Nouveau Réalisme movement. The first Pop Art group exhibition in an 'uptown gallery' in New York City, a rented storefront at 19 W. 57th Street, near the main gallery at 15 E. 57th Street.
- Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston and Adolph Gottlieb quit the Sidney Janis Gallery as protest to the International Exhibition of the New Realists.
- Musashino Art University.
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[edit] Works
See also: Category:1962 paintings
- Herman Wilhelm Bissen - Iderstedter Löwe
- Yves Klein - Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity
- L. S. Lowry - Station Approach
- Piero Manzoni - The Base of the World
- Henry Moore - Knife Edge - Two Piece (Westminster, London)
- Jean Tinguely - Study for an End of the World No. 2 (self-destroying sculpture)
- Marie Vorobieff - Homage to Friends from Montparnasse
- Andy Warhol
- Marilyn 3 Times
- 129 DIE IN JET (Plane Crash)
- Campbell's Soup Cans
- Elvis
- Green Coca-Cola Bottles
[edit] Births
- 2 May - Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (d.2007).
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- Gary Hume, British painter.
[edit] Deaths
- January 24 - André Lhote, painter (b. 1885)
- April 23 - Harold Parker, sculptor (b. 1873)
- May 13 - Franz Kline, abstract expressionist painter (b. 1910)
- June 6 - Yves Klein, painter (b. 1928)
- September 7 - Morris Louis, color field painter (b. 1912)
- October 17 — Natalia Goncharova, russian advance-guard artist (b. 1881).
- December 28 - Karl Völker, painter and architect (b. 1889)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Livingstone, Marco, ed. (1991). Pop Art: an International Perspective. London: Royal Academy of Arts. p. 32. ISBN 0-8478-1475-0.
- ^ Lippard, Lucy R. (1970). Pop Art. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 158. ISBN 0-500-20052-1.
