Editing 1983 in art

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Events from the year '''1983 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[Galería OMR]] commercial [[contemporary art]] [[Art gallery|gallery]] founded in [[Mexico City]].
* [[High Museum of Art]], designed by [[Richard Meier]], opened in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].
* Australian painter [[Sidney Nolan]] settles in Britain at Rodd Court in Herefordshire on the Welsh border near [[Presteigne]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/about/our-history|title=Sidney Nolan Trust|date=2021-04-18}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Archibald Prize]]: [[Nigel Thomson]] – ''Chandler Coventry''

==Works==
{{see also|Category:1983 paintings|Category:1983 sculptures}}

* [[Richard Beyer]]'s ''[[Charles Frederic Swigert Jr. Memorial Fountain]]'' installed in Oregon Zoo, Portland.
* Completion of the [[Christo and Jeanne-Claude]] [[environmental art]]work, ''[[Surrounded Islands]]'',  involving eleven islands in [[Biscayne Bay]] off [[Miami]] being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m<sup>2</sup>) of pink fabric.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/retrospective/archives-christo-surrounds-islands-miamis-biscayne-bay-fabric-1984-11464/|title=From the Archives: Christo Surrounds Islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay in Fabric, in 1984|date=7 December 2018}}</ref>
* [[Lucian Freud]] - ''Large Interior W11 (After [[Watteau]])''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2019/09/03/41280195/currently-hanging-lucian-freuds-large-interior-w11-after-watteau-at-seattle-art-museum#:~:text=British%20painter%20Lucian%20Freud%27s%20%22Large,Keeffe)%20over%20the%20next%20year%3C | title=Currently Hanging: Lucian Freud's "Large Interior, W11 (After Watteau)" at Seattle Art Museum | date=25 July 2019 }}</ref>
* Completion of [[Richard Hamilton (artist)|Richard Hamilton]]'s [[diptych]] ''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hamilton-the-citizen-t03980 The Citizen]''.
* Cast of [[John Seward Johnson II]]'s painted bronze ''[[Allow Me (Portland, Oregon)|Allow Me]]'' installed in Portland, Oregon.
* [[Marta Minujin]]  - ''[[The Parthenon of Books]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/minujin-the-parthenon-of-books-t14343 | title='The Parthenon of Books', Marta Minujín, 1983 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-20 |title=Marta Minujín's The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations {{!}} |url=https://flash---art.com/article/marta-minujins-the-parthenon-of-books-a-living-elevation-of-social-and-cultural-relations/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Flash Art |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Jean Tinguely]] and [[Niki de Saint Phalle]]'s [[kinetic art]]work, the [[Stravinsky Fountain]] near the [[Centre Pompidou]], [[Paris]].

==Exhibitions==
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==Births==
*[[Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani]], Qatari chairperson of the [[Qatar Museums Authority]]
*[[Jérémie Iordanoff]], French abstract artist
*[[Milo Moiré]], Swiss performance artist

==Deaths==

===January to June===
* 24 February – [[Roy Krenkel]], American illustrator (b.[[1918 in art|1918]]).
* 3 March – [[Hergé]], Belgian [[comics]] writer and [[artist]] (b.[[1907 in art|1907]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/how-did-herge-die/|title=How did Hergé die? - Forbidden Planet Blog|date=2007-05-23|language=en-US|access-date=2016-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915133705/http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2007/how-did-herge-die/|archive-date=2016-09-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 21 May – [[Kenneth Clark]], English author, museum director, broadcaster and [[Art history|art historians]] (b.[[1903 in art|1903]]).
* 11 May – [[Ernst Thoms]], German painter (b. [[1896 in art|1896]]).
* 8 June –  [[Rachel Baes]], Belgian painter  (b.[[1912 in art|1912]]).
* 28 June – [[Dorothy Annan]], English painter, potter, and muralist (b. [[1900 in art|1900]])

===July to December===
* 14 July – [[Philip Zec]], British editorial [[cartoonist]] (b. [[1909 in art|1909]]).
* 12 August – [[Franz Radziwill]], German painter (b. [[1895 in art|1895]]).
* 18 August – [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], German-born British art historian (b.[[1902 in art|1902]]).
* 28 October – [[Otto Messmer]], American [[animator]] (b.[[1892 in art|1892]]).
* 5 November – [[Jean-Marc Reiser]], French [[comic book creator|comics creator]] (b.[[1941 in art|1941]]).
* 17 November – [[John Russell Harper]], Canadian art historian (b.[[1914 in art|1914]]).
* 2 December – [[Aart van den IJssel]], Dutch sculptor (b.[[1922 in art|1922]]).
* 20 December – [[Bill Brandt]], German-born British photographer and photojournalist (b.[[1904 in art|1904]]).
* 23 December – [[Colin Middleton]], Irish artist (b.[[1910 in art|1910]]).
* 25 December – [[Joan Miró]], Spanish [[painting|painter]], [[sculpture|sculptor]] and [[Ceramics (art)|ceramicist]] (b.[[1893 in art|1893]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/joan-miro-the-birth-of-the-world|title=MoMA {{!}} Joan Miró. The Birth of the World. Montroig, late summer–fall 1925|website=www.moma.org|access-date=2016-09-08}}</ref>

===Full date unknown===
* [[Michael Cardew]], English [[studio potter]] (b.[[1901 in art|1901]]).
* [[Bernard Lamotte]], French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.[[1903 in art|1903]]).
* [[Edward Wesson]], English [[watercolour]] [[artist]] (b.[[1910 in art|1910]]).

==See also==
* [[1982 in fine arts of the Soviet Union]]
* [[1983 in fine arts of the Soviet Union]]

==References==
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