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| 1954 |
| | | A painting by Graham Sutherland, commissioned for Winston Churchill's 80th birthday, does not meet with the full approval of the sitter or his wife | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Australian artist Arthur Boyd begins his series of paintings about an aboriginal stockman, Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste | |
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| 1960 |
| | | British artist Anthony Caro begins welding and painting abstract metal sculpture | |
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| 1960 |
| | | British artist Bridget Riley creates patterns that produce unexpected optical effects, in a style that becomes known as op art | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists | |
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| 1965 |
| | | An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map | |
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| 1967 |
| | | A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools | |
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| c. 1969 |
| | | Paintings discovered on stone slabs in a cave in Namibia are dated to about 28,000 years ago | |
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| 1971 |
| | | British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy | |
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