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Art The Artists We Lost in 2016
Artsy Editors Dec 20, 2016 8:00 pm
As the year comes to a close, we remember some of the most notable artists and creatives who passed away in 2016. They brought to the world pioneering paintings, innovative design, unprecedented architectural feats, and photographs that captured the struggles, fashions, and cultural obsessions of the last century.
Among them: Thornton Dial, a self-taught artist from Alabama, made intricate, bold assemblages that powerfully channeled the African- American experience. Marisol and Shirley Jaffe, pioneers of Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, respectively, helped forge a place for women in both male-dominated movements.
Malick Sidibé harnessed the exuberance of post-colonial Mali in his photographic portraits, while Marc Riboud created an international anti- war icon in his image of a Vietnam war protester holding a flower while facing a line of bayonets, and Bill Cunningham chronicled the ever- changing sartorial trappings of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Premature passings included that of Zaha Hadid, the boundary-pushing, Iraqi-British architect, and Leila Alaoui, a documentary photographer who focused on migration and displacement and died in a terrorist attack, while on assignment for UN Women and Amnesty International in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
While these trailblazing artists are no longer with us, their creative spirits live on in the work they left behind, which, collectively, will continue to inspire generations of artists after them.
Leila Alaoui �Follow
B. 1982, Paris • Lived and worked between Beirut, Lebanon, and Marrakech, Morocco 11 Images View Slideshow
Thornton Dial �Follow
B. 1928, Emelle, Alabama • Lived and worked in McCalla, Alabama
9 Images View Slideshow
Zaha Hadid �Follow
B. 1950, Baghdad • Lived and worked in London
7 Images View Slideshow
Vladimir Kagan �Follow
B. 1927, Worms, Germany • Lived and worked in New York
4 Images View Slideshow
Malick Sidibe �Follow
B. 1936, Soloba, Mali • Lived and worked in Bamako, Mali
15 Images View Slideshow Richard Smith �Follow
B. 1931, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England • Lived and worked in Long Island, New York
10 Images View Slideshow
Marisol �Follow
B. 1930, Paris • Lived and worked in New York
6 Images View Slideshow
Louisa Chase �Follow
B. 1951, Panama City, Panama • Lived and worked in East Hampton, New York
5 Images View Slideshow
Francois Morellet �Follow
B. 1926, Cholet, France • Lived and worked in Cholet, France
10 Images View Slideshow
Tunga �Follow
B. 1952, Palmares, Pernambuco, Brazil • Lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro
5 Images View Slideshow Fan Ho
B. 1931, Shanghai • Lived and worked in Hong Kong and San Jose, California
5 Images View Slideshow
Bill Cunningham
B. 1929, Boston • Lived and worked in New York
4 Images
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Alan Vega B. 1938, New York • Lived and worked in New York
5 Images View Slideshow
Billy Name B. 1940, Poughkeepsie, New York • Lived and worked in New York
6 Images
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Jaime Davidovich B. 1936, Buenos Aires • Lived and worked in New York
5 Images View Slideshow Rodney Smith
B. 1947, New York • Lived and worked in Snedens Landing, New York
8 Images View Slideshow
Marc Riboud
B. 1923, Saint-Genis-Laval, France • Lived and worked in Paris
11 Images View Slideshow
Shirley Jaffe
B. 1923, Elizabeth, New Jersey • Lived and worked in Paris
7 Images View Slideshow
George Barris
B. 1928, New York • Lived and worked in Thousand Oaks, California
2 Images View Slideshow
Darby Bannard
B. 1934, New Haven, Connecticut • Lived and worked in Miami
8 Images View Slideshow Elaine Lustig Cohen
B. 1927, Jersey City, New Jersey • Lived and worked in New York
2 Images View Slideshow
Louis Stettner
B. 1922, Brooklyn, New York • Lived and worked in Saint-Ouen, France
2 Images View Slideshow
Arnold Mesches
B. 1923, The Bronx, New York • Lived and worked in Gainesville, Florida
3 Images View Slideshow
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