1940-1976 timeline

By veramayzel

  • Germain invasion of Russia/ Bomb of Pearl Harbour

  • First Papers of Surrealism

    First Papers of Surrealism

  • Gorky paints Garden of Sochi + Pollock's first solo exhibition

    Gorky paints Garden of Sochi + Pollock's first solo exhibition

  • Liberation of France/ Breton &Gorky meet

    Liberation of France/ Breton &Gorky meet

    Breton meets Arshille Gorky
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs dropped

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs dropped

  • Second World War

    Second World War

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II

  • Manifesto del realismo by italian artists

  • First exhibition of abstract art in Europe

    First exhibition of abstract art in Europe

    Art Concret, Galerie Rene Drouin Paris
  • Lucio Fontana's White Manifesto

    Lucio Fontana's White Manifesto

  • Sartre writes Existentialism is Humanism

    Sartre writes Existentialism is Humanism

  • Paolozi makes collages with advertisement and magazines

  • Abstraction Creation group arises in Paris

    Abstraction Creation group arises in Paris

  • Arshille Gorky commits suicide

    Arshille Gorky commits suicide

  • Berlin blockade

    Berlin blockade

  • State of Israel proclaimed

    State of Israel proclaimed

  • Formation of Cobra Movement in Paris

    Formation of Cobra Movement in Paris

  • Barnett Newman begins to make colour field paintings

    Barnett Newman begins to make colour field paintings

  • Chinese people republic under Mao Zedong

  • Russia gets A-bomb

  • Francis Bacon starts photographing

    Francis Bacon starts photographing

  • Korean War

  • Le Corbrusier comissioned to build a new capital for the Punjab

  • Abstract painting and Sculpture in America - MOMA

    Abstract painting and Sculpture in America - MOMA

  • Churchill becomes prime minister

  • Eisenhower becomes US president

  • Jackson Pollock paints blue poles

    Jackson Pollock paints blue poles

  • Stalin dies

  • Matisse dies

    Matisse dies

  • Man, Machine and Motion

    institute of contemporary arts london
  • This is tomorrow Exhibition, Whitechapel gallery

    This is tomorrow Exhibition, Whitechapel gallery

  • Suez Canal seized by Egypt, attack by English and French troops

  • Pollock dies

    Pollock dies

  • treaty of rome

  • New American Painting Exhibition at MoMA

    by group zero
  • 'The street ' exhibition at the Judson gallery

    'The street ' exhibition at the Judson gallery

    by Claes Oldenburg

  • Castro takes over Cuba

  • Construction of the Berlin wall

    Construction of the Berlin wall

  • Warhol prints his Marilyn diptych

    Warhol prints his Marilyn diptych

  • J.F. Kennedy gets assassinated

    J.F. Kennedy gets assassinated

  • Warhol's first retrospective, ICA

  • "Primary structures", Jewish Museum NYC

    Synthetic abstraction in Guggenheim museum
  • Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia

    Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia

  • Martin Luther King assassinated

    Martin Luther King assassinated

  • Duchamp dies

    Duchamp dies

  • Neil Armstrong lands on the moon

    Neil Armstrong lands on the moon

  • Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty

    Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty

    Great Salt Lake, Utah

  • Linda Nochlin publishes "Why there have been no great women artists"

  • Larry Clark publishes a book of photographs

  • "The New Art" at Hayward Gallery, London

  • Joseph Beuys preforms Coyote in New York

  • First performance of Sex Pistols

    First performance of Sex Pistols

  • "Women Artists" exhibition in Los Angeles

    "Women Artists" exhibition in Los Angeles