1957 in art
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- April 19 – Picasso is introduced by American photographer David Douglas Duncan to his dachshund Lump who becomes Picasso's companion and subject in paintings.[1]
- May 17 – First known instance of a chimpanzee (Congo) painting.[2] His mentor Desmond Morris organises an exhibition of chimpanzee art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
- Hungarian National Gallery opens in Buda Castle, Budapest.
- Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany.
- Chicago's Lithuanian community opens the Čiurlionis Art Gallery.
- John Lennon enrols at Liverpool College of Art where he will meet Stuart Sutcliffe.
- Man Ray's Object to Be Destroyed (1923) is destroyed
- Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Style of graphic design.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Self Portrait
- John Moores Painting Prize: Jack Smith – Creation and Crucifixion[3]
Exhibitions
- January – Yves Klein – Proposte Monochrome, Epoca Blu ("Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch"), Gallery Apollinaire, Milan.
Works
- Arman - Mauve Administratif
- Jean Arp – Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (cast bronze)
- Maurice Boitel – The Hens
- Paul-Émile Borduas – Étoile noire
- Arthur Boyd – Dreaming Bridegroom 1
- Yves Klein – Aerostatic Sculpture (Paris).
- L. S. Lowry – Man Lying on a Wall; Portrait of Ann
- Isamu Noguchi – Endless Coupling
- Pablo Picasso – Las Meninas
- Charles Sheeler – Red Against White
- Clyfford Still – 1957-D No. 1
Births
- January 27 – Frank Miller, American comic-book artist
- April 3 – Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (d. 1990)
- May 4 – John Akomfrah, Ghanaian-born British filmmaker
- July 31 – Martin Jennings, English figurative sculpture
- August 7 – Mark Bagley, American comic-book artist
- August 9 – Rick Leonardi, American comic-book illustrator
- August 28 – Ai Weiwei, Chinese installation artist
- October 16 – Jim Hodges, American installation artist
- November 18 – Ernst Billgren, Swedish sculptor
- November 26 – 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