1980 in art

Events

• May 22–September 16 - Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States.
• Robert Hughes presents a series (with accompanying book), The Shock of the New, for BBC Television in the United Kingdom on "art and the century of change".
• Benedikt Taschen opens a comic book store in Cologne which will evolve into the art book publisher Taschen.

Works

• Basil Blackshaw - *Green Landscape
• Georgia O'Keeffe - *Llama in the Desert
• Howard Post - *Moving Cattle
• Nabil Kanso - *Apocalyptic Rider; *Time Suspended in Space (South Africa)

Births

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Deaths

January to June

• January 18 - Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (b.1904).
• February 6 - Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (b.1907).
• February 17 - Graham Sutherland, English artist (b.1903).
• February 22 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist, poet and playwright (b.1886).
• March 5 - John Skeaping, English sculptor and equine painter (b.1901).
• March 18 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (b.1898).
• April 21
  • Ľudovít Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (b.1902).
  • Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and a painter (b.1928).
• June 7 - Philip Guston, Canadian painter and printmaker (b.1913).
• June 23 - Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b.1904).

July to December

• July - Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher (b.1898).
• August 26 - Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (b.1908).
• September 14 - Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (b.1906).
• November 22 - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b.1901).
• December 26 - Tony Smith, American sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (b.1912).

See also

• 1980 in fine arts of the Soviet Union