1984 in art

Events from the year1984 in art.

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Events

• November 6- TheTurner Prizeis awarded for the first time, toMalcolm Morley.
• Neue Slowenische Kunstis established.
• FirstNordikart historians' conference held, "Nordic art around the turn of the century" in Helsinki. The work ofHilma af Klint(1862–1944) is first revealed publicly, by Åke Fant.
• Eric Hebbornadmits toart forgery.
• An x-ray ofJean-François Millet's 1870 paintingThe Young Shepherdess,in the collection of theMuseum of Fine Arts in Boston,reveals an earlier painting previously presumed destroyed,The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon.

Awards

• Archibald Prize:Keith Looby–Max Gillies

Works

See also:Category:1984 sculptures

• Alberto Burri–Cretto di Burri( "Il Grande Cretto", land art,Gibellina,Sicily,Italy;work begins)
• John Doubleday– Statue ofDylan Thomas(Marina,Swansea)
• Jean Dubuffet–Monument with Standing Beast(fiberglasssculpture,Chicago Loop)
• Felim Egan–Battle of Hercules and Antaeus
• Steve Gillman –From Within Shalom(sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Frederick Hart–Three Soldiers(bronze statue)
• Nancy Holt–Dark Star Park,Rosslyn, Virginia
• Keith Jellum–Electronic Poet(sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• Nabil Kanso–Apocalyptic Riders(diptych)
• Lee Kelly–Akbar's Garden(sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
• R. B. Kitaj–Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees)(1983-84)
• Roy Lichtenstein–Brushstrokes in Flight(sculpture, Columbus, Ohio)
• Steve McCurry–Afghan Girl(photographic portrait)
• Malcolm Morley-Farewell to Crete
• Odd Nerdrum–Iron Law
• Humphrey Ocean–Philip Larkin
• Roland Poska–From Blue to Blue
• Gleb Savinov–Nevsky Prospekt
• Frank Stella-Smoke Sculpture Form
• Paul Sutinen –In the Shadow of the Elm(sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
• David Wojnarowicz-F--- You F----- F-----(painting)

Exhibitions

• May 20untilSeptember 9-AmericanNeo-Expressionistsat theAldrich Museum of Contemporary ArtinRidgefield, Connecticut.

Births

• May 4–Joe Simpson,English figurative painter
• November 29–Yoriyas,Moroccan street photographer and breakdancer
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Deaths

January to June

• January 7–Virgilio Guidi,Italian painter (b.1891)
• February 6
  • Jimmy Ernst,American painter born in Germany (b.1920)
  • Ronald Moody,Jamaican-born woodcarver (b.1900)
• February 12–Tom Keating,Englishart restorerandforger(b.1917)
• March 16–John Hoagland,Americanphotographer(b.1947)
• March 20–Paule Vézelay,English painter (b.1892)
• April 22–Ansel Adams,Americanphotographer(b.1902)
• April 23– SirRoland Penrose,English Surrealist painter and art collector (b.1900)
• June 3–Peter Wilson,English art auctioneer (b.1913)
• June 19–Lee Krasner,Americanabstract expressionistpainter (b.1908)

July to December

• July 7–Dirk Hannema,Dutch museum director and art collector (b.1895).
• July 8–Brassaï,Hungarianphotographer, sculptor and filmmaker (b.1899)
• July 9–Peter Hurd,American artist (b.1904)
• August 2–Quirino Cristiani,Argentineanimationdirectorandcartoonist(b.1896).
• September 16–Meredith Frampton,English portrait painter (b.1894)
• October 7–Arnold Akberg,Estonian painter (b. 1894)
• October 29–Jacques Adnet,French modernist designer, architect andinterior designer(b.1900).
• December 1–Roelof Frankot,Dutchpainter (b.1911)
• December 2-Edward James,BritishSurrealistart collector and poet (b.1907)

See also

• 1984 in fine arts of the Soviet Union