1934 in art
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Works
- Eileen AgarEileen AgarEileen Forrester Agar was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement.-Biography:...
– The Autobiography of an Embryo - Hans Arp – Human Concretion (Musée National d'Art ModerneMusée National d'Art ModerneThe Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. Created in 1947, it was then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and moved to its current location in 1977...
, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
) - Raoul DufyRaoul DufyRaoul Dufy[p] was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events...
– Regatta at Cowes (National Gallery of ArtNational Gallery of ArtThe National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
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Exhibitions
- April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert ReadHerbert ReadSir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC was an English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner....
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Births
- February 11 – Mary QuantMary QuantMary Quant OBE FCSD is a British] fashion designer and British fashion icon, who was instrumental in the mod fashion movement. She was one of the designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born in Blackheath, London, to Welsh parents, Quant brought fun and fantasy to...
, fashion designer. - February 27 – Vincent FourcadeVincent FourcadeVincent Gabriel Fourcade was a French interior designer and the business and life partner of Robert Denning...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
interior designInterior designInterior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
er (d.19921992 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister *Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey-Works:*Banksy – First graffiti art *Grenville Davey – Hal*Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green...
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- June 20 – RiusRiusEduardo del Río is a famous Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán....
, cartoonist - July 11 – Giorgio ArmaniGiorgio ArmaniGiorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...
, fashion designer - July 24 – Lee FriedlanderLee FriedlanderLee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of the photographs including fragments of...
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- Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick IrelandPatrick IrelandPatrick Ireland was the alter ego of Brian O'Doherty an Irish sculptor, conceptual artist, author, and installation artist. He was born in County Roscommon in 1928 and lives and works in the United States. O'Doherty began signing his work under the name Patrick Ireland in reaction to the Bloody...
, installation artist. - Neil WilliamsNeil Williams (artist)Neil Williams was an American painter. Williams was an abstract painter primarily known for his pioneering work with shaped canvases in the early 1960s. His paintings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are associated with geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, color field, and lyrical abstraction,...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painter (d.19881988 in art-Events:*Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard*Turner Prize – Tony Cragg-January to June:*19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist ....
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- Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland
Deaths
- March 23 – Wenzel HablikWenzel HablikWenzel August Hablik , also known as Wenceslav Hablik and Wilhelm August Hablik, was a painter and graphic artist, architect, designer, and craftsman of the early twentieth century, associated with German Expressionism.Hablik was born in Brüx, Bohemia...
, painter, graphic artist, designer (b. 18811881 in art-Events:*The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium*Marie Bashkirtseff - The Studio...
) - April 11 – John CollierJohn Collier (artist)The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI , called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry...
, painter (b. 18501850 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.*Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:...
) - June 29 – Adolf KašparAdolf KašparAdolf Kašpar , was a Czech painter and illustrator.-Life:The son of a general wares dealer, Kašpar studied at Prague Academy under Maxmilián Pirner, but his foremost mentor was eventually Hanus Schwaiger, a famous Czech painter and children's book illustrator.-Works:Kašpar was a notable artist, who...
, Czech painter and illustratorIllustratorAn Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
(b. 18771877 in art-Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...
) - August 17 - Alexander Borisov, landscape painter (b. 18661866 in art-Works:*Paul Cézanne - Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement *Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Agostino...
) - September 1 - Yumeji Takehisa, poet and painter (b. 18841884 in art-Works:*Edvard Munch - Morning*Georges-Pierre Seurat - Bathers at Asnières-Births:*5 February - Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect -Works:*Edvard Munch - Morning*Georges-Pierre Seurat - Bathers at Asnières-Births:*5 February - Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect...
) - October 17 – Adolf HölzelAdolf HölzelAdolf Hölzel was a German artist/painter. His style developed from Impressionism to expressive modernism.- Biography :...
, German artist/[painter of an ImpressionismImpressionismImpressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
to expressive modernismModern artModern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...
style (b. 18531853 in art-Works:*Théodore Chassériau - The Tepidarium *Gustave Courbet - The Bathers *Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience...
) - November 4 – Sir Alfred GilbertAlfred GilbertSir Alfred Gilbert was an English sculptor and goldsmith who enthusiastically experimented with metallurgical innovations...
, sculptor (b. 18541854 in art-Works:*Gustave Courbet - The Meeting , *William Powell Frith - Ramsgate Sands*Holman Hunt - The Light of the World*Jean-François Millet - The Reaper...
) - December 4 – Paul-Albert BesnardPaul-Albert BesnardPaul-Albert Besnard was a French painter and printmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel...
, painter (b. 18491849 in art-Events:* May – First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Free Exhibition on Hyde Park Corner, London.* May – John Ruskin...
) - December 28 – Pablo GargalloPablo GargalloPablo Emilio Gargallo was a Spanish sculptor and painter.Born in Maella, Aragon, he moved to Barcelona, Catalonia, with his family in 1888, where he would begin his training in the arts. Gargallo developed a style of sculpture based on the creation of three-dimensional objects from pieces of flat...
, painter and sculptor (b. 18811881 in art-Events:*The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium*Marie Bashkirtseff - The Studio...
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- Alfred BoucherAlfred BoucherA French sculptor, Alfred Boucher , mentor to Camille Claudel and friend of Auguste Rodin.Born in Bouy-sur-Ovin , he was the son of a farmhand who became the gardener of the sculptor Chantalle van Zanten, who, after recognizing Boucher's talent, opened his studio to him.He won the Grand Prix du...
, sculptor (b. 18501850 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.*Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:...
) - Melvin Ormond HammondMelvin Ormond HammondMelvin Ormond Hammond was a Canadian journalist and photographer, known throughout his professional career simply as M. O. Hammond.- Life :...
, photographer (b. 18761876 in art-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - An Audience at Agrippa's*Edward Mitchell Bannister - Under the Oaks*Albert Fitch Bellows - Sunday in Devonshire*Gustave Caillebotte - Le pont de l'Europe *Paul Cézanne - Vase of Flowers...
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- Alfred Boucher