Events from the year 1950 in art.
Events
Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer founds the Hundsgruppe ("dog pack") with Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs and Josef Mikl. Paint by number kits introduced by Max S. Klein, an engineer and owner of the Palmer Paint Company of Detroit, and Dan Robbins. Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art is published by Phaidon Press.
Awards
Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir Leslie McConnan
Audubon Artists Gold Medal – Richmond Barthé
Works
Jean Arp – Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (model for bronze) Francis Bacon – Fragment of a Crucifixion Max Beckmann – Falling Man Marc Chagall – La Mariée Salvador Dalí – The Madonna of Port Lligat (second version, Fukuoka Art Museum) Max Desfor – Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea (photograph) Robert Doisneau – Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss) (photograph) Alberto Giacometti – The Chariot E. Chambré Hardman – The Birth of the Ark Royal (photograph) Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi – Ghosts, Fire and Water (Yūrei, Hi and Mizu), first of The Hiroshima Panels (原爆の図, Genbaku no zu) Oskar Kokoschka – The Myth of Prometheus (triptych) L. S. Lowry – The Pond Henri Matisse – Beasts of the Sea (paper collage) Joan Mitchell - Figure and the City''' Jackson Pollock – Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) William Scott – Bowl, Eggs and Lemons Vladimir Tretchikoff – Chinese Girl, popularly known as "The Green Lady" Keith Vaughan – Theseus and the Minotaur'' (Tate Britain)
Births
April 22 – Thierry Zéno, Belgian filmmaker
June 24 – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (d. 2006) July 29 – Jenny Holzer, American neo-conceptual artist August 30 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) David Ruben Piqtoukun, Canadian Inuit sculptor
Deaths
February 12 – Boris Vladimirski, Soviet painter of the Socialist Realism school (b. 1878) February 15 – Albert Herter, American painter (b. 1871) April 5 – Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker (b. 1876) September 26 – Pierre Roy, French-born painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1880) December 7 – Wojciech Weiss, Polish painter and draughtsman (b. 1875) December 28 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884) James Sleator, Irish painter (b. 1889)