1971 in art

Events

• Construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou begins.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh - Sir John McEwen

Works

• Hans Haacke - Real Time Social System
• David Hockney - Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
• Fritz Koenig - Great Spherical Caryatid ("The Sphere"), designed for the World Trade Center, now in Battery Park, NYC
• Nabil Kanso, Place des Martyres (paintings), (1971 through 1974)

Births

• September 2 - Arnold Arre, Filipino comic book writer and artist
• September 7 - Sirpa Masalin, Finnish sculptor
• September 13 - Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
• October 3 - Oliver Briceño, Venezuelan Musician, Oboist
• October 4 - Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (died 2007)
• October 27 - Jade Arcade, American composer, musician and comic book artist
• date unknown
  • Ahmed Al Safi, Iraqi sculptor
  • Stéphane Breitwieser, French art thief
  • Amanda Coogan, Irish performance artist
  • Bernhard Gál, Austrian composer and artist
  • Nicolas Ghesquière, French fashion designer

Deaths

• January 10 - Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (born 1883)
• January 11 - I. Rice Pereira, American painter, (born 1902)
• February 7 - Emy Roeder, German sculptor (born 1890)
• April 3 - Jacques Ochs, French artist, Olympic fencing gold medallist (born 1883)
• April 11 - Marcel Gromaire, French painter (born 1892)
• June 14 - Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (born 1916)
• July 7 - Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (born 1901)
• July 12 - Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese outsider artist (born 1922)
• August 27 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (born 1904)
• November 9 - Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (born 1903)
• December 6 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter (born 1885)

See also

• 1971 in fine arts of the Soviet Union