1983 in art

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List of years in art (table)
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Events

Galería OMR commercial contemporary art gallery founded in Mexico City.

Awards

Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson - Chandler Coventry

Works

Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of pink fabric.
Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle's kinetic artwork, the Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Exhibitions

Births

Harriett Kent-Pope

Deaths

January to June

24 February - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
3 March - Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
21 May - Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
8 June - Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912).

July to December

14 July - Philip Zec, British editorial cartoonist (b. 1909).
18 August - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
28 October - Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
5 November - Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
17 November - John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
23 December - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
25 December - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).

Full date unknown

Michael Cardew, English studio potter (b.1901).
Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).

See also

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