1981 in art
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- 10 September – Picasso's painting Guernica is returned from New York to Madrid.
- Blek le Rat begins his stencil graffiti art in Paris.
Awards
Exhibitions
- 9 June – Black Art an'done opens at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in England.
Works
- Tony Cragg – Britain as Seen from the North
- John Doubleday – Statue of Charlie Chaplin (Leicester Square, London)
- Don Eckland – Emergence (bronze, Eugene, Oregon)
- Bryan Hunt – Arch Falls (bronze, Houston, Texas)
- Nabil Kanso – Dreamvision series of paintings completed
- Ellsworth Kelly – Curve XXIV (sculpture, Seattle)
- Carlo Maria Mariani – The Constellation of Leo
- Ana Mendieta Maroya (Esculturas Rupestres) (executed in caves in Cuba)[1]
- Odd Nerdrum – Twilight
- Helmut Newton – Sie kommen! ("They're coming!", photographic diptych; published in French Vogue, November)
- Richard Serra – Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York City (dismantled 1989)
- Andy Warhol – Myths series
- Aubrey Williams – Shostakovich series of paintings completed
Births
- 15 April – Seth Wulsin, American artist.
- 19 April – Saskia de Brauw, Dutch model and artist
- 4 November – Paul Tucker, Canadian visual artist and graphic novel and webcomic illustrator.
- 20 November – Scott Hutchison, Scottish singer, songwriter, guitarist, and visual artist (d. 2018)[2]