Events from the year 1957 in art.
Events
Awards
Exhibitions
- January â Yves Klein â Proposte Monochrome, Epoca Blu ("Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch"), Gallery Apollinaire, Milan.
Works
Births
- January 27 â Frank Miller, American comic-book artist
- April 3 â Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (d. 1990)
- May 4 â John Akomfrah, Ghanaian-born British filmmaker
- July 31 â Martin Jennings, English figurative sculpture
- August 7 â Mark Bagley, American comic-book artist
- August 9 â Rick Leonardi, American comic-book illustrator
- August 28 â Ai Weiwei, Chinese installation artist
- October 16 â Jim Hodges, American installation artist
- November 18 â Ernst Billgren, Swedish sculptor
- November 26 â Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (d. 1996)
- undated
- Bill Barker, American Schwa conceptual artist
- Mike Bernard, English painter and multi-media artist
- Wang Jiujiang, Chinese neo-shan shui artist
Deaths
- January 1 â ÃÂscar DomÃÂnguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906)
- January 13? â SaishÃ
« Onoe, Japanese poet and calligrapher (b. 1876)
- January 17 â JoÃ
¾e PleÃÂnik, Slovene architect (b. 1872)
- January 20 â John Minton, English painter and illustrator (suicide) (b. 1917)
- February 4 â Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and caricaturist (b. 1904)
- February 11 â Gwen Raverat, English wood engraver (b. 1885)
- February 14 â Emanuel Hahn, German Canadian sculptor (b. 1881)
- March 16 â Constantin BrâncuÃÂi, Romanian-born sculptor (b. 1876)
- March 28 â Jack Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
- March 23 â Andrzej Wróblewski, Polish figurative painter (mountaineering accident) (b. 1927)
- May 14 â Marie Vassilieff, Russian-born painter (b. 1884)
- May 18 â Bruce Rogers, American book designer and typographer (b. 1870)
- June 12 â Mario Urteaga Alvarado, Peruvian painter (b. 1875)
- July 7 â Kiyoshi Koishi, Japanese photographer (b. 1908)
- August 2 â Lasar Segall, Lithuanian-born Brazilian Jewish painter (b. 1891)
- August 15 â C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (b. 1880)
- August 19 â David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
- September 13 â Adam Emory Albright, American painter of figures in landscapes (b. 1862)
- September 26 â Pompeo Coppini, Italian American sculptor (b. 1870)
- October 11 â René Auberjonois, Swiss Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
- October 15 â Henry van de Velde, Belgian-born painter, architect and designer, a founder of the Art Nouveau movement (b. 1863)
- October 24 â Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
- November 2 â Mahonri Young, American sculptor (d. 1877)
- November 20 â Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-born graphic artist (b. 1875)
- November 24 â Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- November 30 â Paja JovanoviÃÂ, a leading Serbian Realist painter (along with ÃÂorÃÂe Krstiàand UroÃ
¡ PrediÃÂ) (b. 1859)
- December 14 â Josef Lada, Czech illustrator and painter (b. 1887)
- December 15 â Heinrich Hoffmann, German propaganda photographer (b. 1885)
See also
References