Events from the year 1973 in art.

Events August 25 – Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, designed by Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is opened. Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas". David Hockney begins a 2-year spell living and working in Paris. Aristeidis Metallinos begins his career as a sculptor.Giannis M. Maris (1978) "Βιογραφικό - Αριστείδης Ζαχ. Μεταλληνός", in Απάνθισμα Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών, Athens, pp. 611–617. Robert Scull's collection of American Pop and Minimal art is auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City.

Awards Archibald Prize: Janet Dawson – Michael Boddy

Exhibitions November to December - Henri Mattisse at the Acquavella Galleries in New York City. Christopher Williams – centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.

Works

Emma Amos – Sandy and Her Husband Michael Ayrton – Icarus (sculpture, London) Michael Craig-Martin – An Oak Tree (conceptual work) Salvador Dalí – Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (stereoscopic painted in duplicate but for a small variation - completed) William Eggleston – The Red Ceiling (photograph) Ben Enwonwu – Tutu Gluck – Credo (Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light) (completed) Barbara Hepworth – Conversation with Magic Stones Hipgnosis – The Dark Side of the Moon (album cover) David Hockney – The Student: Homage to Picasso (print) David Inshaw – The Badminton Game Nabil Kanso – Place des Martyres (paintings); Vietnam paintings series (through 1974) Frederic Littman – Farewell to Orpheus (bronze, Portland, Oregon) Joan Miró – completes series The navigator's hope Joan Mitchell - Iva (monumental triptych, Tate Modern Henry Moore – Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (bronze) Mike Parr - Wound By Measurement (performed at Galerie Impact in Lausanne, Switzerland) Ivor Roberts-Jones – Statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square (bronze, London) Dorothea Tanning - Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (work completed) Euan Uglow – Georgia Andy Warhol – Man David Wynne Embracing Lovers (bronze, Guildhall, London) Girl with a Dolphin (bronze, by Tower Bridge, London)

Births January 29 – Louise Hindsgavl, Danish artist Trine Ross. "Porcelænsfigurer viser de mindre pæne sider af os selv". Politiken: Kultur February 1 – Yuri Landman, Dutch musician, comic book creator and singer May 8 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist July 7 – Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist July 28 (possible date) – Banksy, English graffiti artist August 18 – Jerome Lagarrigue, French painter and illustrator date unknown Noma Bar, Israeli-born illustrator and graphic artist. Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist. Oisín McGann, Irish author and illustrator. Rosalind Nashashibi, Palestinian-English film artist. Charles Pétillon, French photographer and installation artist

Deaths January to June January 17 – Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist (b. 1886). March 14 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901). March 25 Gerda Höglund, Swedish religious painter (b. 1878). Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter and curator (b. 1879). April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (b. 1881). April 13 – Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892) April 28 – Siri Derkert, Swedish artist, sculptor and political campaigner (b. 1888). May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish artist and essayist (b. 1914). May 12 – Edith Tudor Hart, née Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (b. 1908). May 16 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (b. 1887). May 18 – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (b. 1894). May 21 – Montague Dawson, English maritime painter (b. 1890).

July to December July 20 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938). August 9 – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (b. 1905). September 30 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b. 1902). November 13 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890). November 17 – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (b. 1894). December 7 – Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (b. 1896). December 13 – Ralph Stackpole, American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator (b. 1885). December 16 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886).

See also 1973 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

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