1972 in art

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Events

• May 21 – In St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City), Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's Pietà statue with a geologist's hammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.
• June 8 - KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark, designed by Alvar and Elissa Aalto and Jean-Jacques Baruël, is completed.
• September 15 – Release in France of Luis Buñuel's surrealist film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
• September 16 – Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, New York, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.
• September – Release in the United Kingdom of Ken Russell's biographical film about Gaudier-Brzeska, Savage Messiah.
• October 4 – Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, designed by Louis Kahn, is opened.
• date unknown
  • BBC Television broadcasts Ways of Seeing, a four-part series by John Berger on art.
  • Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser publishes his architectural manifesto, Your window right – your tree duty.
  • Portmeirion Pottery brings out its best-selling "Botanic Garden" design.
  • Oliver Millar becomes the first full-time Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures in the United Kingdom, succeeding Anthony Blunt.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh – The Hon E G Whitlam

Works

See also: Category:1972 paintings and Category:1972 sculptures

• Francis Bacon – Triptych–August 1972
• Bronisław Chromy – Wawel Dragon (statue) installed in Kraków
• Marcelle Ferron – Untitled stained glass panel at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Helen Frankenthaler – Coral Wedge
• Barbara Hepworth – Minoan Head and Assembly of Sea Forms
• Joan Jonas – Vertical Roll
• Paul McCarthy – Black and White Tapes
• Clifton Pugh – Death of a Wombat
• John Raimondi – David

Births

• January 29 – Brian Wood, American author and illustrator.
• April 4 – Jørgen Larsson, Norwegian musician, sound artist and curator.
• April 29 – Roman Dirge, American comic book artist and magician.

Full date unknown

• Duncan Campbell, Irish-born video artist.
• Jules de Balincourt, French painter.
• Gilles Tréhin, French artist and author.
• Hema Upadhyay, née Hirani, Indian installation artist and photographer (d. 2015).

Deaths

January to June

• January 19 – Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (b. 1892).
• February 19 – Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (b. 1906).
• March 13 – Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941).
• March 23 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895).
• March 27
  • M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (b. 1898).
  • Ricco Wassmer, Swiss painter (b. 1915).
• April 26 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)

July to December

• July 31 – Dod Procter, English painter (b. 1890)
• October 23 – Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (b. 1899)
• October 31 – Beta Vukanović, Serbian painter (b. 1872).
• December 23 – Norman Clyde, American mountaineer, nature photographer and naturalist (b. 1885).
• December 24 – Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian (b. 1882).
• December 29 – Joseph Cornell, American artist and sculptor (b. 1903).

Full date unknown

• Gerard Curtis Delano, American painter (b. 1890).
• Ilija Bašičević, Serbian painter (b. 1895)

See also

• 1972 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union