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Period: to
WW2
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Pollock's 'Drip' Paintings
Full Fathom Five -
Barnett Newman
Colour Field painting -
Le Corbusier- Punjab Capital, Chandigargh
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"Action Painting"
term coined by critic Harold Rosenberg -
'This is Tomorrow'- Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
first exhibition involving architects, artists, designers and theorists suggested by architect Theo Crosby -
'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 -
Cesar's Compressions
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Pierre Restany- New Realist Manifesto
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Berlin Wall
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David Hockney- 'We Two Boys Together Clinging'
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Andy Warhol
iconic Marilyn Monroe an Cambells Soup exhibited at Ferus gallery, LA
Pop Art Covered in public magazines -
6 Day War between Israel and Arabs
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'Minimal Art'
first Minimal Art exhibition at Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, including work by Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd -
'Conceptual Art'
first concptual art exhibition at Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen -
Joseph Kosuth- 'Art After Philosophy'
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Linda Nochlin- 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?'
published in Art News -
'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 -
Opening of Centr Pompdou, Paris
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Cindy Sherman- 'Untitles Film Stills'
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Margaret Thatcher becomes PM
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Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baseltz shown at Venice Biennale
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Falklands War
Britian and Argentina -
Opening of Saatchi Gallery
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Black Monday- Stock Market crash
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Belin Wall comes down
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Damien Hirst- Shark
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Gulf War
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Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa
