See also: 1948 in art, other events of 1949, 1950 in art, list of years in art 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...
Salvador Dalà as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten Salvador Felip Jacint Dalà Domènech (May 11, 1904 â January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan-Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. ... The Madonna of Port Lligat is the name of two paintings by Salvador Dalí. The first was created in 1949, measuring 49 x 37. ... County Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, (D) Congressional Rep. ...
August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... Istvan Kantor (aka Monty Cantsin, and Amen!) (born 27 August 1949 in Budapest) is a hungarian born canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism. ...
New art was to epitomise the opening of a new era, also in terms of the socio-political system, as one of the co-authors and theoreticians of the entire project and an outstanding artist himself, Zbigniew Dłubak, had emphasised.
Invited to show their works were both students and recent graduates of the art schools, who were predominantly tutored by conforming professors, in hope that years of educational effort had not been wasted.
The dysfunction of artistic state agencies, whose task was to ensure greater throughput of art distribution, stimulated the growth of their substitutes in a form of various groups grass-root communities established instinctively or spontaneously, which were to care and protect, and help with art promotion.
Art activity was on the increase in 1949 in the United States and in foreign countries.
Despite decreased sales for living artists, American auction totals were greater than in the previous season without reaching 1945-1946's all time high.