See also: 1954 in art - Other events of 1955 - 1956 in art - List of years in art 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... See also: 1955 in art, other events of 1956, 1957 in art, list of years in art, List_of_art_events. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...
Exhibitions
January 1955 was the opening of the Family of Man exhibition at MOMA NYC.
General Electric GE90-115B fanblade, on display at MOMA. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. ...
January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania) is an American contemporary artist and sculptor. ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... Beverly K. Effinger (born Beverly Kandrac, March 14, 1955) is a United States painter. ... The direct-carving or taille directe marble sculptor Alexander Sokolov (born 1955) has spent about half his life in Spain which has led to the distribution of his more central continental style within Iberia. ...
Polish art of the post World War II decade–marked by postwar trauma, stagnation, isolation, and a desperate attempt to define its new language–from 1949 to 1954 was trapped by the rigorous premises of the officially imposed socialist realism, which vanished almost immediately after Stalin's death.
In 1955, an exhibition of young artists called Against War, Against Fascism, held at the Warsaw's Arsenal building, became a symbol of the nation's artistic breakthrough from the Stalinist era.
Most of the truly innovative forms of expression in Polish art between 1955 and 1985 were born on the borderline of different branches of art, or art and other human activities.