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1986 in art
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Awards
Exhibitions
Works
Births
Deaths
January to June
July to December
Undated
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Events from the year
1986 in art
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Events
21 May – Eighteen
Old Master
paintings from the
Beit
collection are stolen from
Russborough House
in
Ireland
by
Martin "The General" Cahill
, the second major
art theft
from this location.
19 August – Two weeks after it was stolen, the
Picasso
painting
Weeping Woman
is found in a locker at
Spencer Street station
in
Melbourne
,
Australia
.
Opening of the
Musée d'Orsay
(formerly the
Gare d'Orsay
) in
Paris
.
Awards
Archibald Prize
–
Davida Allen
,
Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera
Sulman Prize
–
Wendy Sharpe
,
Black Sun – Morning and Night
Turner Prize
–
Gilbert and George
Shortlisted:
Art & Language
,
Victor Burgin
,
Derek Jarman
,
Stephen McKenna
and
Bill Woodrow
Exhibitions
23 November –
The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985
opens at
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
.
[
1
]
[
2
]
Organized by
Maurice Tuchman
, this is the first public showing of the
abstract art
of Swedish painter and mystic
Hilma af Klint
(died 1944).
Works
See also:
Category:1986 paintings
and
Category:1986 sculptures
David Adickes –
Cornet
(sculpture, Galveston, Texas)
Yaacov Agam
-
Fire and Water Fountain
at
Dizengoff Square
in
Tel Aviv
, Israel (Dedicated)
Ruth Asawa
–
Aurora
(sculpture, San Francisco)
John Buckley
–
The Headington Shark
(
Untitled 1986
; painted fibreglass sculpture)
Daniel Buren
-
Les Deux Plateaux
in the inner courtyard (Cour d'Honneur) of the
Palais Royal
in
Paris
,
France
John Burgee
and Philip Johnson –
Clarke Memorial Fountain
(Notre Dame, Indiana)
Wayne Chabre
–
Einstein Gargoyle
(sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
John Doubleday
– Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England)
Georgia Gerber –
Animals in Pools
(sculptures, Portland, Oregon)
Robert Graham
-
Monument to Joe Louis
installed at
Hart Plaza
in
Detroit, Michigan
, United States
David Hockney
–
Pearblossom Highway #2
(
photocollage
)
Ellsworth Kelly
–
Houston Triptych
(bronze sculpture, Houston, Texas)
Igor Mitoraj
–
Heros de Lumiere
Odd Nerdrum
–
Return of the Sun
Kantilal B. Patel –
Mohandas Gandhi
(sculpture, New York City)
Andy Warhol
Camouflage
Map of Eastern U.S.S.R. Missile Bases
The Last Supper
(Series completed )
Andrew Wyeth
–
Flood Plain
Jamie Wyeth
–
Kalounna in Frogtown
(Terra Foundation for American Art)
Yu Tang Wang and Sun Chau –
Chinatown Gateway
(structure, Portland, Oregon)
Births
15 April – Amy Louise Nettleton, British installation and sculpture artist.
Oscar Murillo
, Colombian-born artist.
Deaths
January to June
6 March –
Georgia O'Keeffe
American artist (b.
1887
).
26 April –
Dechko Uzunov
, Bulgarian painter (b.
1899
).
11 May –
Henry Plumer McIlhenny
, American art collector, philanthropist and chairman of
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(b.
1910
).
31 May –
Jane Frank
, American painter, sculptor,
mixed media
artist and
textile artist
(b.
1918
).
9 June –
Ilona Harima
,
Finnish
painter (b.
1911
).
July to December
7 April –
Cecil King
, Irish abstract-
minimalist
painter (b.
1921
).
30 June –
Guan Zilan
, Chinese avant-garde painter (b.
1903
)
22 July –
Floyd Gottfredson
, American
cartoonist
(b.
1905
).
31 August –
Henry Moore
, English artist and
sculptor
(b.
1898
).
9 September –
Albert Malet
, French painter (b.
1912
).
12 September
Ernst Haas
, Austrian photographer (b.
1921
).
Jacques Henri Lartigue
, French photographer and painter (b.
1894
).
18 September –
Corita Kent
, American nun and silkscreen printer (b.
1918
).
11 October –
Barker Fairley
, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (b.
1887
).
23 October –
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench
, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter (b.
1893
).
Undated
Marko Čelebonović
,
Serbian
painter (b.
1902
).
Guan Liang
,
Chinese
artist (b.
1900
).
See also
1986 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
↑
The Spiritual in Art, Abstract Painting 1890-1985
. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1986.
ISBN
0-89659-669-9
.
↑
"Art view: How the spiritual infused the abstract"
.
The New York Times
. 1986-12-21.
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