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Events from the year 1952 in art.
Events
August 29 – Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, New York.
Eight younger British artists (Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull) are represented in the "New Aspects of British Sculpture" exhibition at the Venice Biennale which Herbert Read describes as the "Geometry of Fear". Britain also displays paintings by Graham Sutherland and Edward Wadsworth.
Louis le Brocquy's 1951 painting A Family sparks controversy in Ireland when a group of art patrons offer to present it to the Dublin Municipal Gallery and it is rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence.
Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic collection Images à la sauvette is published by Tériade in Paris.
Publication of Un Art Autre, by Michel Tapié.
Awards
Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Mr Essington Lewis, CH
Prix Puvis de Chavannes – Tristan Klingsor
Works
Michael Andrews – A Man who Suddenly Fell Over
Francis Bacon
Figure in a landscape
Study for Crouching Nude
Salvador Dalí – Galatea of the Spheres
Dwight D. Eisenhower – Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
M. C. Escher
Gravitation
Puddle
Helen Frankenthaler – Mountains and Sea
Lucian Freud – Girl In Bed
Elisabeth Frink – Bird
Willem de Kooning – Woman I
Henri Laurens – L'Amphion (sculpture, University City of Caracas)
René Magritte – The Listening Room
Henri Matisse – cutouts
series of Blue Nudes, e.g., Blue Nude I[usurped], Blue Nude II
Black Leaf on Green Background
La Négresse
The Sorrows of the King
John Minton – The Death of Nelson
Henry Moore – King and Queen (bronze)
Jackson Pollock – Blue Poles
Germaine Richier - The Devil with Claws
Kay Sage – On the Contrary
David Smith – Agricola I (sculpture)
Dorothea Tanning – The Friend's Room
Lovejoy Columns, Portland, Oregon, painted by Tom Stefopoulos
Exhibitions
September 25 – November 9 – Jacob Epstein retrospective, Tate Gallery, London
Exhibition of forgeries, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Births
March 18 – Sally Robinson, English-born Australian painter
March 22 – Bernard Pras, French plastics technician
May 23 – Martin Parr, English documentary colour photographer
August 13 – Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002)
October 20 – Derek Ridgers, English portrait and street culture photographer
November 15 – Blek le Rat (Xavier Prou), French stencil graffiti artist
November 22 – Corno (Joanne Corneau), Canadian post-pop painter (d. 2016)
date unknown
Graham Forsythe, Northern Irish/Canadian painter
Duncan Hannah, American painter (d. 2022)
Mona Hatoum, Lebanese-born Palestinian multimedia artist
James Little, American painter
Daniel Meadows, English photographer
Ian Rank-Broadley, English sculptor
Deaths
March 3 – Howard Chandler Christy, American painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
April 9 – Caroline Risque, American sculptor and painter (b. 1883)
May 5 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer and painter (b. 1891)
May 6 – Oswald Birley (b. 1880)
June 9 – Alice Austen, American photographer (b. 1866)
August 16 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
October 15 – Katharine Adams, English bookbinder (b. 1862)
December 15 - Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (b. 1860)
date unknown:
Arthur Beecher Carles, American Modernist painter (b. 1882)
William Lee Hankey, English painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
Nicolas Sursock, Lebanese art collector (b. 1875)
See also
1952 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Art Nouveau
- Formula Satu musim 1952
- Komik
- Dolorosa Sinaga
- Art Farmer
- Antonio Blanco
- Le Corbusier
- Britania Raya
- Paul Jackson Pollock
- Masjid Umayyah Damaskus
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- Timeline of art
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- MOA Museum of Art
- Person having ordinary skill in the art
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