Events from the year 1980 in art.
Events January 1 – Gary Larson's single-panel comic The Far Side debuts in the San Francisco Chronicle. February 7 – Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour opens at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. 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. December 8 – Annie Leibovitz photographs John Lennon with Yoko Ono in New York for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine five hours before his murder. 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.
Exhibitions February 17 until April 6 - "Afro-American Abstraction" (curated by April Kingsley at MoMA PS1 in New York City.
Works
Basil Blackshaw – Green Landscape Arbit Blatas – The Monument of the Holocaust (reliefs, first edition) Alan Chung Hung – Gate to the Northwest Passage (sculpture, Vancouver, British Columbia) David Inshaw – The River Bank (Ophelia) Keith Jellum – Mimir (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) Nabil Kanso Apocalyptic Rider Time Suspended in Space (South Africa) Peter Kennard – Haywain with Cruise Missiles Georgia O'Keeffe – Llama in the Desert Bryan Organ – Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton Howard Post – Moving Cattle George Segal – Gay Liberation (sculpture)
Awards John Moores Painting Prize - Michael Moon for "Box-room"
Deaths January to June January 9 – Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (b. 1910) January 18 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (b. 1904) January 20 – William Roberts, painter (b. 1904) January 26 – Dolly Rudeman, Dutch graphic designer (b. 1902) February 4 – Stojan Aralica, Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (b. 1883) 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) May 15 – Len Lye, New Zealand-born American kinetic sculptor and filmmaker (b. 1901) May 16 – Izis Bidermanas, Lithuanian-born photographer (b. 1911) June 7 – Philip Guston, Canadian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1913) June 23 – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (b. 1904)
July to December July 16 – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American painter and art 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). December 30 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish painter (b. 1915).
Undated Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (born 1900) Cicely Hey, English-born artist and model (born 1896)
See also 1980 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
ru:1980 год в истории изобразительного искусства СССР