1962 in art

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List of years in art (table)
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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 - The comic book character The Incredible Hulk, created visually by Jack Kirby, is introduced.
May–June - David Smith creates the Voltri series of abstract sculptures (e.g. Voltri XV) in Italy.
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 Sir 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]
July 23 - The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum is opened in Cairo.

Epstein's St Michael's Victory over the Devil at Coventry Cathedral

August - The comic book character Spider-Man, created visually by Steve Ditko, is introduced.
September 25 - The Pasadena Art Museum mounts New Painting of Common Objects, a survey of contemporary American Pop Art.^[3]
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 and 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 Janis Gallery as a protest against the exhibition.
November 14 - The British General Post Office issues the first commemorative stamps to be designed by David Gentleman.
Michelangelo Pistoletto begins painting on mirrors.
Ernst Barlach House completed as an art museum in Hamburg, Germany.
City Hall Museum and Art Gallery established in Hong Kong.
The Institute of American Indian Arts is set up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Musashino Art University.
Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta imaugurated in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Queen's Gallery is opened to the public at Buckingham Palace, London.
The Stanley Spencer Gallery opens in Spencer's home village of Cookham, England.
The comic book character Barbarella, created by Jean-Claude Forest, is introduced in France.

Yves Klein - IKB 191

Herman Wilhelm Bissen - Iderstedter Löwe
Alexander Calder - Sky Hooks (sculpture)
Anthony Caro - Early One Morning (painted metal sculpture)
Jean Dubuffet - Court les rues
Yves Klein
- IKB 191
- Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity
Roy Lichtenstein
- Blam
- Brattata
- Golf Ball
- Jet Pilot
- Kiss II
- Masterpiece
- Portrait of Madame Cézanne
L. S. Lowry - Station Approach
Piero Manzoni - The Base of the World
Henry Moore - Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65
Otto Muehl and followers of Viennese Actionism - Die Blutorgel (performance art)
David Shepherd - The Wise Old Elephant
Jean Tinguely - Study for an End of the World No. 2 (self-destroying sculpture)
Marie Vorobieff - Homage to Friends from Montparnasse
Andy Warhol
- Campbell's Soup Cans
- Coca-Cola (3)
- Green Coca-Cola Bottles
- Elvis
- Marilyn Diptych
- Marilyn 3 Times
- 129 DIE IN JET (Plane Crash)
David Wynne
- The Breath of Life Column (Hammersmith)
- John Gielgud (bronze busts)

January 24 - André Lhote, painter (b. 1885)
March 19 - Ethel Sands, painter (b. 1873)
April 23 - Harold Parker, sculptor (b. 1873)
May 13 - Franz Kline, abstract expressionist painter (b. 1910)
May 25 - Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of Expressionism of color in Serbian art between two wars (b. 1894)
June 6 - Yves Klein, painter (b. 1928)
September 7 - Morris Louis, color field painter (b. 1912)
October 17 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian avant-garde artist (b. 1881).
December 28 - Karl Völker, painter and architect (b. 1889)

↑ 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.
↑ Plagens, Peter (2000). Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 138. ISBN 0-520-22392-6.

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