Editing Timeline of art (section)

== 1980s ==
* '''[[1989 in art]]''' – Death of [[Pierre Matisse]], [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Jay DeFeo]], [[Sidney Janis]]
* '''[[1988 in art]]''' – Death of [[Ronald Bladen]], [[Neil Williams (artist)|Neil Williams]], [[Isamu Noguchi]], [[Louise Nevelson]], [[Constantino Nivola]], [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], [[Donald De Lue]]
* '''[[1987 in art]]''' – Death of [[Alexander Iolas]], [[Andy Warhol]], [[Jean Hélion]], [[André Masson]], [[Raphael Soyer]]
* '''[[1986 in art]]''' – Death of [[Edward Biberman]], [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], [[Henry Moore]], [[Jane Frank]]
* '''[[1985 in art]]''' – Death of [[Marc Chagall]], [[Jean Dubuffet]], [[André Kertész]], [[Ana Mendieta]]; [[Charles Saatchi]]'s collection opens to the public arousing interest in [[Neo-expressionism]]
* '''[[1984 in art]]''' – Death of [[Jimmy Ernst]], [[Hollis Frampton]], [[Ansel Adams]], [[Sir Roland Penrose]], [[Lee Krasner]], [[Brassaï]], [[Edward James]]
* '''[[1983 in art]]''' – Death of [[Hergé]], [[Chang Dai-chien]], [[Kenneth Clark]], [[Doris Emrick Lee]], [[Joan Miró]]
* '''[[1982 in art]]''' – Death of [[Wifredo Lam]], [[Ben Nicholson]]
* '''[[1981 in art]]''' – Death of [[Francesca Woodman]], [[Isaac Soyer]], [[Max Spivak]], [[Yitzhak Frenkel|Isaac Frenkel Frenel]]; Birth of [[Miru Kim]]
* '''[[1980 in art]]''' – Death of [[Cecil Beaton]], [[Albert Kotin]], [[Oskar Kokoschka]], [[Philip Guston]], [[Clyfford Still]], [[Tony Smith (sculptor)|Tony Smith]], [[Graham Sutherland]], [[Tamara de Lempicka]]; [[Pablo Picasso]] major retrospective exhibition at [[Museum of Modern Art]] ([[New York City|New York]])