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May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871) May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist (b. 1877) June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1874) August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist (b. 1897)
Although pop art began in the early 1950s, in America it was given its greatest impetus during the 1960s. The term "pop art" was officially introduced in December 1962; the occasion was a "Symposium on Pop Art" organized by the Museum of Modern Art. [19]
1960 in art – Death of David Park and Dean Cornwell; Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Makoto Fujimura, and David Neel. As public interest in Abstract expressionism wanes, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting , and Minimalism become increasingly popular
Konrad Bernheimer, Venezuelan-born German art dealer and collector; Antony Gormley, English sculptor; September 4 – Kobe (Jacques Saelens), Belgian visual artist and sculptor; November 10 – Jonathan Janson, American painter and art historian; December 11 – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d. 2007)
In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term " Pop Art " in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power ...
June 1 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born Australian painter and art teacher (b. 1870) June 29 – Max Pechstein, German Expressionist artist (b. 1881) August 17 – Fernand Léger, French artist (b. 1881) September 19 – Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor (b. 1875) September 27 – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (b. 1898)
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Junk art – 1960s – Performance art – 1960s – Op Art – 1964 – Post-painterly abstraction – 1964 – Lyrical Abstraction – mid-1960s – Process art – mid-1960s – 1970s; Arte Povera – 1967 – Art and Language – 1968, United Kingdom; Photorealism – late 1960s – early 1970s; Land art – late-1960s – early 1970s; Post ...