1982 in art

Events from the year 1982 in art.

Events[]

• Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.
• Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
• Photographer Jacqueline Livingston opens Jacqueline Livingston "A One Artist Gallery" in New York's Soho showing a different body of her work monthly for one year. Livingston and her gallery are placed under FBI surveillance because of accusations of child pornography.Reference corrected by the artist.
• December 28 – Snow v Eaton Centre Ltd decided: the Ontario High Court of Justice affirms the artist's right to integrity of his work.

Awards[]

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith – Peter Sculthorpe
• John Moores Painting Prize - John Hoyland for "Broken Bride 13.6.82" ^[1]
• John Player Portrait Award: Humphrey Ocean

Films[]

• 66 Scenes from America

Works[]

Paintings[]

• Michael Andrews – Sax AD 832
• Avigdor Arikha – Marie-Catherine
• Wolf Kahn – My Barn on a Summer Night, Hirshhorn Museum
• Henry Moore – (charcoal, wax crayon and ballpoint pen)
• Euan Uglow – Zagi

Other[]

• Joseph Beuys 7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration at Documenta 7, Kassel
• Daniel Buren - "Les Guirlandes" (The Garlands at Documenta 7, Kassel^[2]
• John Seward Johnson II – Double Check (sculpture in New York City)
• Joan Miró and Joan Gardy Artigas – Dona i Ocell (tiled sculpture in Barcelona)
• Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle – Fontaine des automates, Paris

Exhibitions[]

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Births[]

• October 20 – Adela Jušić, contemporary visual artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• December 10 – Zuzana Čížková, Czech painter and sculptor
• December 16 – Justin Mentell, American artist and actor (d. 2010)
• María Berrío, Colombian-born graphic artist
• , American artist
• Tris Vonna-Michell, British installation artist
• Approximate date – Bambi, English graffiti artist

Deaths[]

• January 17 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b.1905)
• January 27 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (b.1905)
• February 6 – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (b.1894)
• June 10 – Gala Dalí, Russian artist's model (b.1894)
• June 29 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b.1914)
• August 3 – David Carritt, English art historian, dealer and critic (b.1927)
• September 11 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (b. 1902)^[3]
• September 17 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor and lithographer (b.1909)^[4]
• October 9 – Charles E. Brown, English aviation photographer (b.1896)
• October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (b.1908)
• November 3 – Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine painter and architect (b. 1889)
• November 27 – Radomir Stević Ras, Serbian painter and designer (b. 1931)

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