Timeline: 1940-1995

Period: Jan 1, 1939 to Jan 1, 1945

WW2

Jan 1, 1947

Pollock's 'Drip' Paintings

Full Fathom Five

Jan 1, 1948

Barnett Newman

Colour Field painting

Jan 1, 1950

Le Corbusier- Punjab Capital, Chandigargh

Jan 1, 1952

"Action Painting"

term coined by critic Harold Rosenberg

Jan 1, 1956

'This is Tomorrow'- Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

first exhibition involving architects, artists, designers and theorists suggested by architect Theo Crosby

Jan 1, 1958

'New American Painting'- MOMA

Abstract Expressionist exhibition including works by William Baziotes, James Brooks, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko,Theodore Stamos, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker Tomlin and Jack Tworko

Jan 1, 1960

Cesar's Compressions

Jan 1, 1960

Pierre Restany- New Realist Manifesto

Jan 1, 1961

Berlin Wall

Jan 1, 1961

David Hockney- 'We Two Boys Together Clinging'

Jan 1, 1962

Andy Warhol

iconic Marilyn Monroe an Cambells Soup exhibited at Ferus gallery, LA
Pop Art Covered in public magazines

Jan 1, 1967

6 Day War between Israel and Arabs

Jan 1, 1968

'Minimal Art'

first Minimal Art exhibition at Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, including work by Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd

Jan 1, 1969

'Conceptual Art'

first concptual art exhibition at Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen

Jan 1, 1969

Joseph Kosuth- 'Art After Philosophy'

Jan 1, 1971

Linda Nochlin- 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?'

published in Art News

Jan 1, 1973

'Photo Realism'- Serpentine Gallery

including artists such as John De Andrea
Chuck Close
Robert Cottingham
Don Eddy
Richard Estes
Ralph Goings
Nancy Stevenson Graves
Howard Kanovitz
Richard McLean
Malcolm Morley
John Salt
Richard Serra

Jan 1, 1977