1965 in art
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Events from the year 1965 in art.
Events
- March 19 – A record price of 760,000 guineas is paid at Christie's London auction house for Rembrandt's painting Titus.
- May – Avant-garde artists Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín present La Menesunda in Buenos Aires, one of the first installations in art history.{{cite web|url=https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/marta-minujin|title=Marta Minujín: Menesunda Reloaded|date=June 26, 2019|accessdate=March 29, 2020|publisher=New Museum}}
- September – Indica Gallery counterculture bookshop and art gallery opens in London.{{cite book |first=Miles|last=Barry|author-link=Barry Miles |title=Many Years From Now |publisher=Vintage–Random House |year=1998 |isbn=0-7493-8658-4 |pages=223–224}}
- October 7 – Release in the United States of the biographical film The Agony and the Ecstasy with Charlton Heston portraying Michelangelo.
- December – Max's Kansas City nightclub opens in New York City; it quickly became a hangout of choice for artists and sculptors of the New York School and other members of the avant-garde.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – R A Henderson
- John Moores Painting Prize – Michael Tyzack for " Alesso 'B' "{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history/prizewinners-exhibition/paintings/michael_tyzack.aspx|title=Alesso 'B' by Michael Tyzack (1933-2007) - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums|website=Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk|accessdate=28 November 2018}}
- British sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/262392/Dame-Barbara-Hepworth "Dame Barbara Hepworth"] Britannica. Accessed 18 October 2013.
Works
{{see also|Category:1965 paintings|Category:1965 sculptures}}
- Yaacov Agam – Double Metamorphosis II
- Joseph Beuys – How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (performance piece)
- Salvador Dali - La Gare de Perpignan
- Mark di Suvero – Bunyon's Chess (sculpture, Seattle)
- Lucian Freud – Reflection with Two Children (self-portrait)
- Norman Lewis
- Unknown Title (March on Washington)https://www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/procession-art-norman-lewis
- Untitledhttps://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/inventing-downtown-artist-run-galleries-in-new-york-city-19521965-57383/
- L. S. Lowry
- Huddersfield
- Industrial Scene
- Miguel Miramontes – Equestrian statue of José María Morelos
- Roman Opałka – 1965 /1 – ∞
- John Petts – Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, West Window
- Fairfield Porter – Elizabeth
- James Rosenquist – F-111
- Andy Warhol – Empire (film, released)
- Carel Willink – To the Future
- David Wynne – Busts of Joan Baez and Oskar Kokoschka
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial (Portland, Oregon)
Births
- January 21 – Robert Del Naja, English graffiti artist and trip hop musician
- February 20 – Miriam Mone, Northern Irish fashion designer (died 2007)
- March 9 – Brom, American illustrator
- April 20 – Mark Mallia, Maltese painter and sculptor (died 2024){{Cite web |last=Borg |first=Neville |date=2024-07-23 |title=Artist Mark Mallia dies aged 59 |url=https://timesofmalta.com/article/artist-mark-mallia-dies-59.1095770 |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=Times of Malta |language=en-gb}}
- July 9 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (died 2006)
- December 16 – Ellen Gallagher, American artist
- date unknown
- Hurvin Anderson, English painter{{Cite web |title=Hurvin Anderson {{!}} Artist {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/hurvin-anderson-ra |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519125259/https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/hurvin-anderson-ra |archive-date=19 May 2023 |website=Royal Academy of Arts}}
- Tacita Dean, English-born visual artist{{cite web|url=https://www.thefalmouthconvention.com/tacita-dean|title=Tacita Dean - The Falmouth Convention|work=thefalmouthconvention.com}}
- Andrea Fraser, American performance artist{{cite book|author=Bennett Simpson|title=Make Your Own Life: Artists in & Out of Cologne|publisher=Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania|year=2006|isbn=9780884541080|page=87}}
- Elizabeth Peyton, American portrait painter
- Susan Philipsz, Scottish sound artist
- Jessica Voorsanger, American-born visual artist{{ cite news | work=Guardian.co.uk |title=Artist of the Week 55: Jessica Voorsanger | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/aug/26/artist-jessica-voorsanger | accessdate=January 3, 2014 | author=Jessica Lack | date=August 26, 2009 }}
- Alison Watt, Scottish painter
Deaths
- January 3 – Milton Avery, American painter (born 1885)
- January 7 – Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (born 1895)
- January 27 – Abraham Walkowitz, American painter working in the Modernist style (born 1878)
- January 30 – Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, English artist (born 1893)
- February 18 – Yevgeny Charushin, Russian graphic artists (born 1901)
- February 24 – Frank H. Mason, English marine and poster painter (born 1875)
- May 7 – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (born 1883)
- May 19 – Albin Polasek, Czech American sculptor (born 1879)
- May 20 – Charles Camoin, French Fauvist painter (born 1879)
- June 14 – Zoltán Kemény, Hungarian Swiss sculptor (born 1907)
- June 21 – Piotr Buchkin, Russian painter and graphic artist (born 1886)
- June 26 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (born 1899)
- August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and painter (born 1887)
- September 17 – Wilhelm Heise, German painter (born 1892)
- October 19 – Edward Willis Redfield, American landscape painter (born 1869)
- December 24 – Adolf Hyła, Polish painter and art teacher (born 1897)
- December 27 – Edgar Ende, German painter (born 1901)
- date unknown – George Barker, American painter (born 1882)