Overview of the events of 1948 in art
Overview of the events of 1948 in art
Events from the year 1948 in art .
Summer – The art exhibitions at the Venice Biennale are revived, introducing American abstract expressionism to Europe and part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to Venice .
November 8 – COBRA (avant-garde movement) is formed by Karel Appel , Constant , Corneille , Christian Dotremont , Asger Jorn and Joseph Noiret.
Georges Braque begins work on his Ateliers .The Colony Room Club , a private members' drinking club at 41 Dean Street , Soho , London, is founded and presided over by Muriel Belcher ; painter Francis Bacon becomes a member the day after it opens, establishing it as a centre for London's alcoholic artistic elite.[1] Cadillac introduce the car tailfin , to Frank Hershey 's design authorized by Harley Earl .Paintings [ edit ] Sculpture [ edit ] Graphic works [ edit ] January 24 – Machiko Satonaka , Japanese manga artistMarch 9 – Eric Fischl , American painterMarch 14 – James Nachtwey , American photojournalistApril 14 – Berry Berenson , American model and photographer (d. 2001 )June 30 – Wolf Erlbruch , German children's book illustrator and writerJuly 7 – Alison Wilding , English sculptor and academicSeptember 20 – Adrian Piper , American conceptual artistOctober 2 – Donna Karan , American fashion designer October 8 – Gottfried Helnwein , Austrian fine artist, photographer, installation and performance artistNovember 1 – Bill Woodrow , British sculptorNovember 18 – Ana Mendieta , Cuban American performance artist (d. 1985 )December 18 – Mimmo Paladino , Italian sculptor, painter and printmakerDecember 26 – Lin Onus , Scottish -Aboriginal Koori artist (d. 1996 )Full date unknown
January 8 – Kurt Schwitters , German painter, collagist and poet (b. 1887 )January 21 – Ambrosia Tønnesen , Norwegian sculptor (b. 1859 )February 23 – Fidus , German illustrator, painter and publisher (b. 1868 )March 23 – Yevgeniy Abalakov , Soviet sculptor and mountaineer (b. 1907 )March 24 – Sigrid Hjertén , Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885 )July 21 – Arshile Gorky , Armenian American painter (b. 1904 )August – Feliu Elias , Spanish caricaturist and painter (b. 1878 )September 9 – Ignacy Pieńkowski , Polish painter (b. 1877 )September 22 – Felicjan Kowarski , Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1885 )October 17 – Royal Cortissoz , American art critic (b. 1869 )November 4 – Shinzō Fukuhara , Japanese photographer (b. 1883 )December 28 – Hakob Gyurjian , Armenian sculptor (b. 1890 )December 30 – George Ault , American Precisionist painter (b. 1891 )Date unknown – Hector Hyppolite , Haitian painter (b. 1894 )See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]