1956 in art

Events from the year 1956 in art.

Events

• March 1 – Replica statue of the Discus Thrower dedicated in Washington, D.C., as a gift from the Italian government to commemorate the return of looted art objects after World War II. ^[1]
• March – 56 Group founded, to promote modernist art in Wales. Subsequently renamed 56 Group Wales.
• August 9 – Art exhibition This Is Tomorrow opens at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
• September 17 – Release in the United States of the biographical film Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas portraying Vincent van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin.
• Le mystère Picasso , a French documentary film, shows Pablo Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera (which he subsequently destroys so that they will exist only on film).
• William Klein publishes his photo essay New York, 1954–55.
• Shanghai Art Museum, the predecessor of the China Art Museum, opens.
• English curator Jim Ede settles at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England.
• English painter Edward Seago joins a tour of the Antarctic.
• Two attacks are made on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre, Paris. ^{[2] [3]}

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Mr Albert Namatjira
• Kate Greenaway Medal – Edward Ardizzone for Tim All Alone

Films

• Lust for Life

Works

See also: Category:1956 sculptures

• Laurence Bradshaw – Monument to Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery, London (including bronze bust)
• Alexander Calder – Red Mobile
• Frank Cadogan Cowper – The Golden Bowl
• Salvador Dalí – Living Still Life
• M. C. Escher – Print Gallery (lithograph)
• Max Ernst – L'oiseau Rose
• Helen Frankenthaler – Eden
• Richard Hamilton – Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (collage)
• Rudolf Hausner – The Ark of Odysseus
• Eduardo Kingman – La Lavendera
• Roy Lichtenstein – Ten Dollar Bill (lithograph)
• O. Winston Link - Hotshot Eastbound (black-and-white photograph) ^[4]
• L. S. Lowry – The Floating Bridge
• Joan Mitchell
  • Café ^[5]
  • Hemlock ^[6]
• Candido Portinari – Self-portrait
• Norman Rockwell – The Scoutmaster
• Kay Sage – Le Passage
• Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov – Cafe Gurzuf
• Charles Sheeler – On a Shaker Theme
• David Wynne – Sir Thomas Beecham (bronzes)

Exhibitions

• August 9 – September 9 – This Is Tomorrow , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, featuring principally the interdisciplinary ICA Independent Group, including early examples of Pop Art. ^[7]

Births

• January 2 – Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
• January 19 – Junpei Satoh, Japanese Western-style painter
• February 24 – Fiona Graham-Mackay, née Bain, British portrait painter
• May 25 – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (d. 1988)
• date unknown
  • Lee Bae, South Korean visual artist
  • Emma Biggs, English mosaicist
  • Cornelia Parker, English sculptor and installation artist
  • Veronica Ryan, Montserrat-born British sculptor
  • Mackenzie Thorpe, English painter and sculptor

Deaths

• January 13 – Lyonel Feininger, German American painter and cartoonist (b. 1871)
• April 23 – Cecile Walton, Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor (b. 1891)
• May 3 – Peter Watson, English arts benefactor (murdered) (b. 1908)
• June 8 – Marie Laurencin, French painter and engraver (b. 1883)
• June 11 - Frank Brangwyn, Welsh painter (b. 1867)
• July 26 – Louis Raemaekers, Dutch painter and cartoonist (b. 1869)
• August 7 – LeMoine FitzGerald, Canadian painter (b. 1890)
• August 11 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912) ^[8]
• August 16 – Theodor Pallady, Romanian painter (b. 1871)
• November 3 – Jean Metzinger, French painter (b. 1883)
• December 16 – Nina Hamnett, British painter, model and designer (b. 1890)
• Mohamed Nagy, Egyptian painter (b. 1888)

See also

• 1956 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

1. "Discus Thrower (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum . Retrieved 2012-04-19.
2. "Faces of the week". BBC. 2006-09-29. Archived from the original on 2014-08-03. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
3. "Mona FAQ". Mona Lisa Mania. Archived from the original on 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
4. "O. Winston Link. Hotshot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia. July 1957 | MoMA".
5. "Café".
6. "Joan Mitchell". 3 May 2022.
7. Livingstone, Marco (1990). Pop Art: a Continuing History . New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
8. Varnedoe, Kirk and Karmel, Pepe, Jackson Pollock: Essays, Chronology, and Bibliography, Exhibition catalog, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, Chronology, p. 328, 1998, ISBN   0-87070-069-3