Timeline · 1980–1989
The 1980s (1980–1989) fall within Modernism's restless succession of movements, from Fauvism to abstraction. Across these years the gallery holds 1,416 public-domain artworks, with Contemporary Abstract the decade's dominant movement (56 works) and Gheorghiu Val among its most prolific hands.
Illustration 1986 
Portrait of Lady Anne Conolly (née Wentworth) (1713-1797) 1988 
Vedere din Cișmigiu 1981 
Peisaj din Cișmigiu 1981 
Plimbare în Cișmigiu 1981 
Copac secular din Cișmigiu 1981 
Femeie cu pălărie și umbrelă 1983 
Peisaj de la fereastră 1983 
Peisaj cu sălcii 1982 
Casă galbenă în Cișmigiu 1981 
Copaci galbeni în Cișmigiu 1981 
Νέκια V 1987 
Painting 1989 
Iazurile 1987 
Σπουδή για εξώφυλλο του περιοδικού Time 1983 
Vas de formă bitronconică, cu baza plată și bombat în zona „pântecelui”, prezintă o toartă ce pornește din zona gâtului și se termină în zona diametrului maxim al vasului. Vasul este smălțuit în interior și exterior. Decorul este compus din două registre picturale. La baza obiectului sunt pictate linii orizontale și sinusoidale. Primul registru este încadrat de două benzi, și cuprinde crenguțe cu frunze intercalate de benzi și linii paralele și perpendiculare formând romburi. Cel de-al doilea registru pictural a fost decorat cu patru motive florale stilizate. Ambele registre picturale sunt încadrate de linii concentrice de culoare maro, galben și verde. Pe toarta recipientului a fost inscripționat textul: „Korund 1974”, iar pe fund este scris numele meșterului ”Jozsa Janos”. Cromatică: fond: crem; motive: verde; maro; galben. 1986 
Sequences from the Village Museum, naive painting by Petru Mihuțe - Avram Iancu and Romania (1988) 1988 
Research Bucovina, Vatra Moldovița. The Monastery And The Church - View With The Absida And The Turla Of The Church (1980) 1980 
Sequences from the Village Museum, naive painting by Petru Mihuțe - Spring Wedding (1988) 1988 
Sequences from the Village Museum, naive painting by Petru Mihuțe - Winter with van (1988) 1988 
Reproducere pe lemn, reprezentând pe Taras Sevcenko (1814-1861), poetul național al Ucrainei, Moscova, 1985 1985 
Lumina limpede a tinereții 1980 
Χωρίς Τίτλο (από τη σειρά φανταστικά τοπία και νεκρές φύσεις) 1987 
Arborele genealogic al pictorilor din familia Poienaru 1988 Looking for named art-historical periods instead? Browse periods.
On February 6, 1989, the Museum of Modern Art opened Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, recorded in Wikidata as a MoMA exhibition running through May 2. The show arrived less than two…
The retrospective reinforced Warhol's status as a defining artist of late twentieth-century visual culture.
What else happened that dayCurator Diego Cortez opened New York/New Wave at P.S.1 in Long Island City on February 15, 1981. The exhibition brought together more than 100 figures from downtown New York's…
The show helped institutionalize the downtown New York scene and accelerated Basquiat's entry into the art market.
What else happened that dayJohn Wilson's bronze bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was unveiled in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol on January 16, 1986, by Coretta Scott King, the Kings' children, and…
The unveiling permanently inserted King's image into the Capitol's symbolic program of national commemoration.
What else happened that dayJean-Michel Basquiat's first American one-man exhibition opened at Annina Nosei Gallery in New York, running from March 6 to April 1, 1982. The show came after his appearances in…
It accelerated Basquiat's transformation into one of the defining artists of 1980s Neo-expressionism.
What else happened that dayThe Salvador Dalí Museum opened in St. Petersburg, Florida, after Reynolds and Eleanor Morse moved their large Dalí collection from Ohio to a rehabilitated marine warehouse on the…
It made St. Petersburg a major public destination for Dalí and Surrealist art.
What else happened that dayOn January 11, 1980, city workers entered 123 Delancey Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, cleared the artworks from The Real Estate Show, and moved them to an uptown…
The confrontation helped produce ABC No Rio and fed directly into the activist energy around The Times Square Show.
What else happened that dayThe Neue Staatsgalerie opened beside Stuttgart's older State Gallery as James Stirling's purpose-built home for the museum's twentieth-century modern art holdings. The building…
It helped define postmodern museum design and raised the Staatsgalerie's global architectural stature.
What else happened that dayThe U.S. tour of The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections opened at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach after its record-setting Smithsonian…
The tour helped make Prague's Jewish Museum and surviving Judaica collections internationally visible.
What else happened that dayAt the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Gerard Jan van Bladeren attacked Barnett Newman's monumental abstraction Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III with a utility knife. The…
The attack made the repaired surface, not only Newman's original image, part of the painting's art-historical record.
What else happened that dayThe National Museum of Mexican Art opened in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on March 27, 1987. It grew from the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, formed in 1982 by Carlos Tortolero…
It anchored Mexican and Chicano art within a major U.S. museum framework while remaining rooted in Chicago's Pilsen community.
What else happened that dayGeorgia O'Keeffe, a pioneering American modernist painter, passed away on March 6, 1986. Known for her bold and innovative depictions of natural forms, particularly flowers and…
She is widely regarded as the 'Mother of American Modernism' for her profound influence on the development of modern art.
What else happened that dayThe San Antonio Museum of Art opened to the public on March 1, 1981, after a $7.2 million renovation converted the former Lone Star Brewery complex into an art museum. The opening…
The opening transformed a disused brewery into one of Texas's major encyclopedic art museums.
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