1956 in art

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Events from the year 1956 in art.

## Events

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* March 1 – Replica statue of the Discus Thrower dedicated in Washington, D.C., as a gift from the Italian government to commemorate the return of looted art objects after World War II.[1]
* March - 56 Group founded, to promote modernist art in Wales. Subsequently renamed 56 Group Wales.
* September 17 – Release in the United States of the biographical film Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas portraying Vincent van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin.
* Le mystère Picasso, a French documentary film, shows Pablo Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera (which he subsequently destroys so that they will exist only on film).
* William Klein publishes his photo essay New York, 1954-55.
* Shanghai Art Museum, the predecessor of the China Art Museum, opens.
* English curator Jim Ede settles at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England.
* English painter Edward Seago joins a tour of the Antarctic.
* Two attacks are made on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre, Paris.[2][3]

## Awards

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* Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Mr Albert Namatjira
* Kate Greenaway Medal – Edward Ardizzone for Tim All Alone

## Films

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* Lust for Life

## Works

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See also: Category:1956 sculptures

* Laurence Bradshaw – Monument to Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery, London (including bronze bust)
* Alexander Calder – Red Mobile
* Frank Cadogan Cowper – The Golden Bowl
* Salvador Dalí – Living Still Life
* M. C. Escher – Print Gallery (lithograph)
* Max Ernst – L'oiseau Rose
* Helen Frankenthaler – Eden
* Richard Hamilton – Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (collage)
* Rudolf Hausner – The Ark of Odysseus
* Eduardo Kingman – La Lavendera
* Roy Lichtenstein – Ten Dollar Bill (lithograph)
* O. Winston Link \- Hotshot Eastbound (black-and-white photograph)[4]
* L. S. Lowry – The Floating Bridge
* Joan Mitchell
* Café[5]
* Hemlock[6]
* Candido Portinari – Self-portrait
* Norman Rockwell – The Scoutmaster
* Kay Sage – Le Passage
* Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov – Cafe Gurzuf
* Charles Sheeler – On a Shaker Theme
* David Wynne – Sir Thomas Beecham (bronzes)

## Exhibitions

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* August 9-September 9 – This Is Tomorrow, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, featuring principally the interdisciplinary ICA Independent Group, including early examples of Pop Art.[7]

## Births

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* January 2 – Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
* January 19 – Junpei Satoh, Japanese Western-style painter
* February 24 – Fiona Graham-Mackay, née Bain, British portrait painter
* May 25 – Andrea Pazienza, Italian comics artist (d. 1988)
* date unknown
* Lee Bae, South Korean visual artist
* Emma Biggs, English mosaicist
* Cornelia Parker, English sculptor and installation artist
* Veronica Ryan, Montserrat-born British sculptor
* Mackenzie Thorpe, English painter and sculptor

## Deaths

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* January 13 – Lyonel Feininger, German American painter and cartoonist (b. 1871)
* April 23 – Cecile Walton, Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor (b. 1891)
* May 3 – Peter Watson, English arts benefactor (murdered) (b. 1908)
* June 8 – Marie Laurencin, French painter and engraver (b. 1883)
* June 11 \- Frank Brangwyn, Welsh painter (b. 1867)
* July 26 – Louis Raemaekers, Dutch painter and cartoonist (b. 1869)
* August 7 – LeMoine FitzGerald, Canadian painter (b. 1890)
* August 11 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912)[8]
* August 16 – Theodor Pallady, Romanian painter (b. 1871)
* November 3 – Jean Metzinger, French painter (b. 1883)
* December 16 – Nina Hamnett, British painter, model and designer (b. 1890)
* Mohamed Nagy, Egyptian painter (b. 1888)

## See also

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* 1956 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

## References

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1. ^ "Discus Thrower (sculpture)". Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2012-04-19.
2. ^ "Faces of the week". BBC. 2006-09-29. Archived from the original on 2014-08-03. Retrieved 2008-04-27.
3. ^ "Mona FAQ". Mona Lisa Mania. Archived from the original on 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
4. ^ "O. Winston Link. Hotshot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia. July 1957 | MoMA".
5. ^ "Café".
6. ^ "Joan Mitchell". 3 May 2022.
7. ^ Livingstone, Marco (1990). Pop Art: a Continuing History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
8. ^ Varnedoe, Kirk and Karmel, Pepe, Jackson Pollock: Essays, Chronology, and Bibliography, Exhibition catalog, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, Chronology, p. 328, 1998, ISBN 0-87070-069-3

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