1969 in art
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Events
- October 5 - Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcase for the first time on BBC Television,[1] with Terry Gilliam's animations.
- Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga co-found the magazine, Interview.
- Opening of the Oakland Museum of California.
- Lyrical Abstraction exhibition debuts at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in American abstract painting. For two years the exhibition travels throughout the U.S. including to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Awards
Works
- Kenojuak Ashevak - The Owl
- Michael Ayrton - The Arkville Minotaur
- Francis Bacon - Three Studies of Lucian Freud
- Alexander Calder - La Grande Vitesse (sculpture)
- Helen Frankenthaler - Slice of Stone Itself
- Ronnie Landfield - Diamond Lake
- Kanda Nissho - Snow Farm
- Enzo Plazzotta - Baigneuse
- Jean-Paul Riopelle - La Joute (public sculptural installation, Montreal)
- Will Roberts - Redberth Village, Pembrokeshire
- Alexander Semionov - Leningrad in the Morning
- Victor Teterin - Sredne-Podjacheskaya street in Leningrad
- Nikolai Timkov - Russian Winter
Births
- January 1 - Marilyn Manson, American rock musician and painter
- date unknown
- Boushra Almutawakel, Yemeni photographer[2]
- Chantal Joffe, English painter
- Patricia Martín, Mexican curator
Deaths
- March 14 - Ben Shahn, painter and photographer
- May 11 - T. K. Padmini, feminist painter
- July 5 - Walter Gropius, architect
- July 25 - Otto Dix, painter and printmaker (born 1891)
- November 21 - Norman Lindsay, sculptor and cartoonist (born 1879)
Unknown date:
- Emerik Feješ Hungarian and Serbian painter (b. 1904)
See also
References
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ "Boushra Almutawakel, Strata, 2008". School of Oriental and African Studies. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
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