Events from the year 1981 in art.
Events
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
- Tony Cragg â Britain as Seen from the North
- John Doubleday â Statue of Charlie Chaplin (Leicester Square, London)
- Don Eckland â Emergence (bronze, Eugene, Oregon)
- Bryan Hunt â Arch Falls (bronze, Houston, Texas)
- Nabil Kanso â Dreamvision series of paintings completed
- Ellsworth Kelly â Curve XXIV (sculpture, Seattle)
- Carlo Maria Mariani â The Constellation of Leo
- Ana Mendieta Maroya (Esculturas Rupestres) (executed in caves in Cuba)
- Odd Nerdrum â Twilight
- Helmut Newton â Sie kommen! ("They're coming!", photographic diptych; published in French Vogue, November)
- Richard Serra â Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York City (dismantled 1989)
- Andy Warhol â Myths series
- Aubrey Williams â Shostakovich series of paintings completed
Births
Deaths
- 19 January â Francesca Woodman, 22, American photographer
- 4 April - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
- 8 May â Grethe Jürgens, German painter (b. 1899)
- 25 May â Armando de Armas Romero, Cuban painter (b. 1914)
- 28 May â Jean Paul Slusser, painter, designer, art critic, professor, and director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (b. 1886)
- 16 June â Hans Coper, German-born English studio potter (b. 1920)
- 19 June â Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (b.1899)
- 29 June â Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (b. 1912)
- 8 July â Isaac Soyer, Russian-born American painter, (b. 1902)
- 16 July â John E. Berninger, American landscape painter (b. 1896)
- 7 September â Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (b. 1932)
- 12 October â Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (b. 1921)
- 13 October â Antonio Berni, Argentine painter (b. 1905)
- 20 October â Annot, German painter (b. 1894).
- 23 October â Reg Butler, English sculptor (b. 1913)
- 17 November â Nano Reid, Irish painter (b. 1905)
- 22 November â Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (b. 1900)
- 5 December - Max Spivak - 74, American muralist (b. 1901)
- 28 December â Bram van Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1895)
Full date unknown
See also
References