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Overview of the events of 1957 in art
Overview of the events of 1957 in art
Events from the year 1957 in art .
Exhibitions [ edit ] January – Yves Klein – Proposte Monochrome, Epoca Blu ("Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch"), Gallery Apollinaire, Milan. January 27 – Frank Miller , American comic-book artistApril 3 – Yves Chaland , French cartoonist (d. 1990 )May 4 – John Akomfrah , Ghanaian-born British filmmakerJuly 31 – Martin Jennings , English figurative sculptureAugust 7 – Mark Bagley , American comic-book artistAugust 9 – Rick Leonardi , American comic-book illustratorAugust 28 – Ai Weiwei , Chinese installation artistOctober 16 – Jim Hodges , American installation artistNovember 18 – Ernst Billgren , Swedish sculptorNovember 26 – Félix González-Torres , Cuban artist (d. 1996 )undated
January 1 – Óscar Domínguez , Spanish painter (b. 1906 )January 13 ? – Saishū Onoe , Japanese poet and calligrapher (b. 1876 )January 17 – Jože Plečnik , Slovene architect (b. 1872 )January 20 – John Minton , English painter and illustrator (suicide) (b. 1917 )February 4 – Miguel Covarrubias , Mexican painter and caricaturist (b. 1904 )February 11 – Gwen Raverat , English wood engraver (b. 1885 )February 14 – Emanuel Hahn , German Canadian sculptor (b. 1881 )March 16 – Constantin Brâncuși , Romanian -born sculptor (b. 1876 )March 28 – Jack Butler Yeats , Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1871 )March 23 – Andrzej Wróblewski , Polish figurative painter (mountaineering accident) (b. 1927 )May 14 – Marie Vassilieff , Russian -born painter (b. 1884 )[4] May 18 – Bruce Rogers , American book designer and typographer (b. 1870 )June 12 – Mario Urteaga Alvarado , Peruvian painter (b. 1875 )July 7 – Kiyoshi Koishi , Japanese photographer (b. 1908 )August 2 – Lasar Segall , Lithuanian -born Brazilian Jewish painter (b. 1891 )August 15 – C. T. Loo , Chinese-born art dealer (b. 1880 )August 19 – David Bomberg , English painter (b. 1890 )September 13 – Adam Emory Albright , American painter of figures in landscapes (b. 1862 )September 26 – Pompeo Coppini , Italian American sculptor (b. 1870 )October 11 – René Auberjonois , Swiss Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872 )October 15 – Henry van de Velde , Belgian-born painter, architect and designer, a founder of the Art Nouveau movement (b. 1863 )October 24 – Christian Dior , French fashion designer (b. 1905 )November 2 – Mahonri Young , American sculptor (d. 1877 )November 20 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky , Russian -born graphic artist (b. 1875 )November 24 – Diego Rivera , Mexican painter (b. 1886 )November 30 – Paja Jovanović , a leading Serbian Realist painter (along with Đorđe Krstić and Uroš Predić ) (b. 1859 )December 14 – Josef Lada , Czech illustrator and painter (b. 1887 )December 15 – Heinrich Hoffmann , German propaganda photographer (b. 1885 )See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] 
