Editing 2004 in art

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The year '''2004 in art''' involved various significant events and new art works.

==Events==
*April – A Belgian activist group cuts off the left hand of a bronze Congolese figure in a [[:File:Beach of Oostende 08.jpg|monument]] to [[Leopold II of Belgium]] in [[Ostend]] as a protest against colonial atrocities.<ref>{{cite news|first=Daniel|last=Boffey|title=Statue's stolen hand puts Belgium's colonial past in the spotlight|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|date=2019-02-23|page=38|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/22/statue-missing-hand-colonial-belgium-leopold-congo|accessdate=2019-02-24}}</ref>
*[[24 May]] – A fire in the [[Momart]] storage warehouse destroys major works by [[Helen Chadwick]], [[Tracey Emin]], [[Patrick Heron]], [[Damien Hirst]] and other British artists.
*[[18 July]] – The subterranean [[Chichu Art Museum]] on the Japanese island of [[Naoshima, Kagawa|Naoshima]], designed by [[Tadao Ando]], opens.
*[[11 December]] – [[İstanbul Modern]] ([[art museum]]) is established in Turkey. The country's first modern art museum, the [[Doğançay Museum]], opened earlier in the year, also in Istanbul; it is dedicated to the artistic legacy of [[Burhan Doğançay]].

==Works==
{{See also|Category:2004 sculptures}}
*David Backhouse – ''[[Animals in War Memorial]]'' ([[London]])
*[[Banksy]]
**''Di-faced Tenner'' (multiple copies)
**''[[Kissing Coppers]]'' (stencil graffiti originally in Brighton)
*[[Bruce Beasley]] – ''[[Encounter (sculpture)|Encounter]]'' (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
*[[Lucian Freud]] – ''[[The Brigadier (painting)|The Brigadier]]'' (portrait of [[Andrew Parker Bowles]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/11/lucian-freud-portrait-of-camillas-ex-husband-sells-for-nearly-35m|title = Lucian Freud portrait of Camilla's ex-husband sells for nearly $35m| website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date = 11 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/lucian-freud-andrew-parker-bowles-royal-academy|title=Andrew Parker Bowles on being painted by Lucian Freud|date=11 October 2019 }}</ref>
*[[Rachel Joynt]] – ''[[:File:Noahs Egg by Rachel Joynt.jpg|Noah's Egg]]'' (sculpture at Veterinary Sciences Centre, [[University College Dublin]] in [[Ireland]])
*[[Liz Magor]] – ''[[LightShed]]'' (installation, Vancouver)
*[[Cornelia Parker]] – ''Perpetual Canon'' (installation)
*[[Paula Rego]] – ''The Cake Woman''
*Donald Wilson – ''[[Holon (sculpture)|Holon]]'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon)
*[[Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (Houston)|Statue of Mahatma Gandhi]] (Houston, Texas)
*Artworks at [[Millennium Park]] in [[Chicago]], [[United States]]:
**[[Anish Kapoor]] – ''Cloud Gate''
**[[Jaume Plensa]] – ''[[Crown Fountain]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/jaume_plensa.html |title=Millennium Park &ndash; Art and Architecture &ndash; The Crown Fountain|publisher=www.millenniumpark.org|accessdate=2008-07-30|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724031652/http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/jaume_plensa.html|archivedate=2008-07-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.architechmag.com/articles/detailarchitech.asp?articleid=2622|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061202104702/http://www.architechmag.com/articles/detailarchitech.asp?articleid=2622|archivedate=2006-12-02|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=Stamats Business Media|date=July–August 2005|work=Archi•Tech|title=Crown Fountain}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mmart.com/artropolis/citywide_events/public_art/index.html|accessdate=2007-06-13|year=2007|publisher=Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc|title=Artropolis|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105232924/http://mmart.com/artropolis/citywide_events/public_art/index.html|archivedate=2007-11-05}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Archibald Prize]] – [[Craig Ruddy]], ''[[David Gulpilil]], two worlds''
*[[Artes Mundi Prize]] – [[Xu Bing]]
*[[Beck's Futures]] – [[Saskia Olde Wolbers]]
*[[Hugo Boss Prize]] – [[Rirkrit Tiravanija]]
*[[Caldecott Medal]] for children's book illustration – [[Mordicai Gerstein]], ''The Man Who Walked Between the Towers''
*[[En Foco|En Foco's New Works Photography Award]] – [[Manuel Rivera-Ortiz]]
*[[John Moores Painting Prize]] – Alexis Harding, ''Slump/Fear (orange/black)''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/recent-exhibitions/23/prizewinners/alexis_harding.aspx|title='Slump/Fear (orange/black)', Alexis Harding - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums|website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk|accessdate=28 November 2018}}</ref>
*[[Wynne prize]] – [[George Tjungurrayi]], ''Untitled''

==Exhibitions==
*[[Edward Delaney]] retrospective at the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]], Dublin
*''Drawings of [[Jim Dine]]'' at the [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C.
*''[[Erich Heckel]] – His Work in the 1920s'' at the [[Brücke Museum]], Berlin
*[[Paul Henry (painter)|Paul Henry]] at the [[National Gallery of Ireland]], Dublin
*[[Edward Hopper]] at the [[Tate Gallery]], London

==Films==
*[[Modigliani (film)|Modigliani]]

==Deaths==

===January to March===
*[[4 January]] – [[Jeff Nuttall]], English poet, publisher, actor, painter and [[sculpture|sculptor]] (b.[[1933 in art|1933]])
*[[9 January]] – [[Nissim Ezekiel]], Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.[[1924 in art|1924]])
*[[3 February]] - [[Ward Jackson]], American painter (b. [[1928 in art|1928]])
*[[7 February]] – [[Norman Thelwell]], English [[cartoon]]ist (b.[[1923 in art|1923]])
*[[4 March]] – [[Stephen Sprouse]], American fashion designer and artist (b.[[1953 in art|1953]])
*[[12 March]] – [[Milton Resnick]], American painter (b.[[1917 in art|1917]])
*[[13 March]] – [[René Laloux]], French animator and film director (b.[[1929 in art|1929]])
*[[27 March]] - [[Gerome Kamrowski]], American artist (b.[[1914 in art|1914]])

===April to June===
*[[1 April]] – [[Enrique Grau]], Colombian painter and sculptor (b.[[1920 in art|1920]])
*[[7 April]] – [[Wolfgang Mattheuer]], German painter and sculptor (b.[[1927 in art|1927]])
*[[13 April]] – [[Philip and Muriel Berman|Muriel Berman]], American art collector and philanthropist, co-founder of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at [[Ursinus College]] in [[Collegeville, Pennsylvania]]
*[[25 April]] – [[Jacques Rouxel (animator)|Jacques Rouxel]], French animator (b.[[1931 in art|1931]])
*[[12 May]] – [[Syd Hoff]], American children’s book author and [[cartoonist]] (b.[[1912 in art|1912]])
*[[28 May]] – [[Jean-Philippe Charbonnier]], French photographer (b.[[1921 in art|1921]])
*[[5 June]] – [[Fiore de Henriquez]], Italian-born British sculptor (b.1921)
*[[11 June]] – [[Egon von Fürstenberg]], Swiss fashion designer (b.[[1946 in art|1946]])
*[[15 June]] – [[Lothar Fischer]], German sculptor (b.[[1933 in art|1933]])

===July to September===
*[[2 July]] – [[John Cullen Murphy]], American comics artist (b.[[1919 in art|1919]])
*[[19 July]] – [[Sylvia Daoust]], Canadian sculptor (b.[[1902 in art|1902]])
*[[3 August]] – [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], French photographer (b.[[1908 in art|1908]])
*[[4 August]] – [[Cécile Guillame]], first woman to [[engraving|engrave]] a French [[postal stamp]]s (b.[[1933 in art|1933]]).
*[[8 August]] – [[Leon Golub]], American painter (b.[[1922 in art|1922]]).
*[[9 August]] – [[Liisi Beckmann]], Finnish artist and designer (b.[[1924 in art|1924]]).
*[[8 September]] – [[Frank Thomas (animator)|Frank Thomas]], American [[animator]] (b.[[1912 in art|1912]])
*[[19 September]] – [[Eddie Adams (photographer)|Eddie Adams]], American [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning photographer (b.[[1933 in art|1933]])

===October to December===
*[[1 October]] – [[Richard Avedon]], American photographer (b.[[1923 in art|1923]]).
*[[13 October]] – [[Ivor Wood]], English [[stop-motion]] [[animator]] (b.[[1932 in art|1932]]).
*[[15 October]] – [[Irv Novick]], American [[comic book]] artist (b.[[1916 in art|1916]]).
*[[13 November]] – [[Harry Lampert]], American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (b.[[1916 in art|1916]]).
*[[19 November]]
**<!--19 November-->[[Trina Schart Hyman]], American [[illustrator]] of children's books (b.[[1939 in art|1939]]).
**<!--19 November-->[[Piet Esser]], Dutch sculptor (b.[[1914 in art|1914]]).
*[[22 November]] – [[Leo Dee]], American [[silverpoint]] artist (b.[[1931 in art|1931]]).
*[[25 November]] – [[Ed Paschke]], Polish-American painter (b.[[1939 in art|1939]]).
*[[9 December]] – [[Sergey Voychenko]], Belarusian artist and designer (b.[[1955 in art|1955]]).
*[[16 December]] – [[Agnes Martin]], Canadian-American painter (b.[[1912 in art|1912]]).
*[[17 December]] – [[Tom Wesselmann]], American [[pop art]]ist (b.[[1931 in art|1931]]).
*December – [[Cleve Gray]], American [[Abstract expressionist]] painter (b.[[1918 in art|1918]]).

==See also==
*[[List of years in art]]

==References==
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