1950 in art

• Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer founds the Hundsgruppe ("dog pack") with Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs and Josef Mikl. • Paint by number kits introduced by Max S. Klein, an engineer and owner of the Palmer Paint Company of Detroit, and Dan Robbins. • Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art is published by Phaidon Press. ==Awards==

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie – Sir Leslie McConnan • Audubon Artists Gold Medal – Richmond Barthé ==Works==

• Jean Arp – Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral (model for bronze) • Francis Bacon – Fragment of a Crucifixion • Max Beckmann – Falling Man • Marc Chagall – La Mariée • Salvador Dalí – The Madonna of Port Lligat (second version, Fukuoka Art Museum) • Max Desfor – Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea (photograph) • Robert Doisneau – ''Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (The Kiss)'' (photograph) • Alberto Giacometti – The Chariot • E. Chambré Hardman – The Birth of the Ark Royal (photograph) • Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi – Ghosts, Fire and Water (Yūrei, Hi and Mizu), first of The Hiroshima Panels (原爆の図, Genbaku no zu) • Oskar Kokoschka – The Myth of Prometheus (triptych) • L. S. Lowry – The Pond • Henri Matisse – Beasts of the Sea (paper collage) • Joan Mitchell - Figure and the City' • Jackson Pollock – Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) • William Scott – Bowl, Eggs and Lemons • Vladimir Tretchikoff – Chinese Girl, popularly known as "The Green Lady" • Keith Vaughan – Theseus and the Minotaur (Tate Britain) ==Births==

• April 22 – Thierry Zéno, Belgian filmmaker (d. 2017) • June 24 – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (d. 2006) • July 28 – Neville Garrick, Jamaican graphic artist and photographer (d. 2023) • July 29 – Jenny Holzer, American neo-conceptual artist • August 30 • Konrad Bernheimer, Venezuelan-born German art dealer and collector • Antony Gormley, English sculptor • September 4 – Kobe (Jacques Saelens), Belgian visual artist and sculptor • November 10 – Jonathan Janson, American painter and art historian • December 11 – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d. 2007) (Specific date unknown) • David Ruben Piqtoukun, Canadian Inuit sculptor • Andrew Unangst. American photographer ==Deaths==

• February 12 – Boris Vladimirski, Soviet painter of the Socialist Realism school (b. 1878) • February 15 – Albert Herter, American painter (b. 1871) • April 5 – Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker (b. 1876) • September 26 – Pierre Roy, French-born painter, illustrator and designer (b. 1880) • December 7 – Wojciech Weiss, Polish painter and draughtsman (b. 1875) • December 28 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884) • James Sleator, Irish painter (b. 1889) ==See also==