The prize for foreign artist at the Venice Biennale is awarded to Robert Rauschenberg.
David Bailey issues Box of Pin-Ups, a collection of his photographic portraits, in London.
The National Gallery purchases Rembrandt's painting Belshazzar's Feast from The Art Fund.[3]
Exhibitions[edit]
November 9–30 – 8 Young Artists exhibition curated by Martin Ries and E. C. Goossen at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, including Carl Andre; subsequently travels to Bennington College, Vermont.
The Post-painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by art critic Clement Greenberg opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and subsequently travels to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
Works[edit]
See also: Category:1964 paintings and Category:1964 sculptures
Joseph Beuys – Fat Chair (sculpture)
Pauline Boty – It's A Man's World
Montague Dawson – Ariel and Taeping
Barbara Hepworth – Single Form (United Nations Headquarters)[4]
Roy Lichtenstein – Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...
L. S. Lowry – The Black Church
René Magritte – The Son of Man
Ronald Moody - Savacou
Josef Pillhofer – Reclining Man (Liegender Mann) (sculpture)[5]
Norman Rockwell
Growth of a Leader
The Problem We All Live With
Gerald Scarfe – drawing of Winston Churchill[6]
Jean Tinguely – Heureka (kinetic sculpture)
Andy Warhol
Electric Chair (screen print)
Empire (film)
The Shot Marilyns
Sleep (film)
Charles Wheeler – Thomas Paine (gilded bronze, Thetford, England)
David Wynne – The Beatles (bronzes)[7]
Births[edit]
January 20 – Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, Spanish Catalan military and historical hyper realist painter
February 3 – Valérie Belin, French photographer[8]
April 30 – Kelly Sullivan, American "FingerSmear" painter
May 17 – Rob Pruitt, American post-conceptual artist
June 23 – Peter Joyce, English landscape painter
September 10 – Edmund de Waal, English ceramicist
October 28 – Onofrio Catacchio, Italian comics artist
date unknown
Paul Cadden, Scottish hyperrealist[9]
Mark Leckey, English visual artist
Deaths[edit]
January 1 – Paul Ninas, American painter (b. 1903)
January 17 – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter (b. 1904)[10]
January 26 – Xawery Dunikowski, sculptor (b. 1875)
January 28 – Marion Dorn (Kauffer), American-born textile designer (b. 1896)
February 25 – Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (b. 1887)
February 27 – Orry-Kelly, costume designer (b. 1897; liver cancer)
March 12 – Jovan Bijelić, Serbian painter (b. 1884)
March 28 – Vlastislav Hofman, painter, architect (b. 1884)
April 4 – Seán O'Sullivan, portrait painter (b. 1906)
April 20 – August Sander, photographer (b. 1876)
May 9 – Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
June 18 – Giorgio Morandi, still life painter (b. 1890)
June 24 – Stuart Davis, painter (b. 1892)
June 26 – Gerrit Rietveld, designer and architect
July 21 – Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor (b. 1898)
August 31 – Peter Lanyon, landscape painter (b. 1918)
November 5 – Mabel Lucie Attwell, English illustrator (b. 1879)
December 29 – Vladimir Favorsky, Russian graphic artist (b. 1886)
unknown date – Tanasko Milovich, Serbian painter (b. 1900)
See also[edit]
1964 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References[edit]
^Michael C. FitzGerald; Julia May Boddewyn (2006). Picasso and American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-300-11452-2.
^"The Maeght Foundation, a unique site dedicated to art". Fondation Maeght. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2012-10-16. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^"Key facts". National Gallery. Archived from the original on 11 March 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^"Commissions – Single Form". Barbara Hepworth. Hepworth Estate. Retrieved 2011-03-11. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^"Storm King Art Center".
^Published on cover of Private Eye 1965-02-05.
^Masters, Christopher (23 September 2014). "David Wynne obituary | Sculpture". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 November 2020. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^Benedictus, Leo (3 July 2008). "Valérie Belin's best shot". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2013. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^"Paul Cadden's Hyperrealism". koikoikoi. 1 June 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2013. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
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