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Germain invasion of Russia/ Bomb of Pearl Harbour
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First Papers of Surrealism
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Gorky paints Garden of Sochi + Pollock's first solo exhibition
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Liberation of France/ Breton &Gorky meet
Breton meets Arshille Gorky -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs dropped
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Manifesto del realismo by italian artists
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First exhibition of abstract art in Europe
Art Concret, Galerie Rene Drouin Paris -
Lucio Fontana's White Manifesto
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Sartre writes Existentialism is Humanism
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Paolozi makes collages with advertisement and magazines
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Abstraction Creation group arises in Paris
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Arshille Gorky commits suicide
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Berlin blockade
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State of Israel proclaimed
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Formation of Cobra Movement in Paris
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Barnett Newman begins to make colour field paintings
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Chinese people republic under Mao Zedong
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Russia gets A-bomb
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Francis Bacon starts photographing
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Korean War
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Le Corbrusier comissioned to build a new capital for the Punjab
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Abstract painting and Sculpture in America - MOMA
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Churchill becomes prime minister
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Eisenhower becomes US president
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Jackson Pollock paints blue poles
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Stalin dies
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Matisse dies
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Man, Machine and Motion
institute of contemporary arts london -
This is tomorrow Exhibition, Whitechapel gallery
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Suez Canal seized by Egypt, attack by English and French troops
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Pollock dies
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treaty of rome
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New American Painting Exhibition at MoMA
by group zero -
'The street ' exhibition at the Judson gallery
by Claes Oldenburg -
Castro takes over Cuba
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Construction of the Berlin wall
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Warhol prints his Marilyn diptych
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J.F. Kennedy gets assassinated
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Warhol's first retrospective, ICA
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"Primary structures", Jewish Museum NYC
Synthetic abstraction in Guggenheim museum -
Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia
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Martin Luther King assassinated
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Duchamp dies
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Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Great Salt Lake, Utah -
Linda Nochlin publishes "Why there have been no great women artists"
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Larry Clark publishes a book of photographs
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"The New Art" at Hayward Gallery, London
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Joseph Beuys preforms Coyote in New York
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First performance of Sex Pistols
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"Women Artists" exhibition in Los Angeles
