Deaths

Ub Iwerks

Coco Chanel- French fashion Designer- January 10th
Marcel Gromaire-French Painter- April 11th
Gerald Dillion-Irish Painter- June 14th
Ub Iwerks- American animator, cartoonist- July 7th
Kiyoshi Yamashita-Japanese outsider artist- July 12th
Margaret Bourke-White- American Photographer- August 27th

Ceri Richards-Welsh Painter- November 9th
Jan Altink-Dutch Painter- December 6th

Marcel Gromaire

Kiyoshi Yamashita

Fritz Koenig

The Sphere-     
 A Very Large metallic sculpture sculpted by the German artist Fritz Koenig. It first stood in the middle of Austin Tobin Plaza, The area between the World Trade Center in Manhattan. It was dug out from the rubble under the Twin Towers after the deadly 9-11 attack and moved to its new home to this day in Battery Park. The fate of "The Sphere" was initially uncertain until it was dismantled down to its components and it seemed structurally intact. It was then moved to Battery Park without any repairs and dedicated with an eternal flame as  memory of the lives lost on 9-11, it has become a very large tourist attraction because of the dents and holes from the airplane and falling buildings.

Timeline Of 1971

Key events:
-Marked as the start of the Digital Age
-School House Rock Airs on ABC

-Voting Age is lowered to 18 yrs old
-Amtrak is created
-Lance Armstrong was Born
-Charles Manson and three of his followers receive the death penalty
-The Floppy disc was created
-Cigarette ads are banned from TV
-Fritz Koenig- Great Spherical Caryatid- Designed for the World Trade
Center, Now in Battery Park, NYC
-The first Intel Microprocessor is released
-Apollo 14 Lands on the Moon
-The environment organization Greenpeace was founded
-Tupac Shakur is born
-Disney World Opens
-Famous Artist  Hans Haacke produces a historical art landmark,  
Manhattan Real estate Holdings, A Real Social Symstem
-English fashion designer Stella McCartney is born, Paul McCartney's daughter
 

Famous People and Events

Andy Warhol-

Famous throughout the 70's and 80's with exhibit's in museums and galleries across the United States. He is well known for paintings of Mick Jagger, Marilyn Monroe, and Micheal Jackson. He is known for his paintings of Pop artists, Shoes, and images from advertisements. Andy also painted a picture of Dennis Hopper seen above from the Movie "Easy Rider" which he painted a 2 years after its release in 1969.

Construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou begins-
   This Complex house a vast public library and the IRCAM, which is a center for music and acoustic research. It also hold the largest museum for modern art in Europe called the Musee National d'Art Moderne. The complex was designed by Italian Architect Renzo Piano, the architect couple Richard Rogers and Su Rogers, Gianfranco Franchini and Edmund Happold.  It was said the design of the Complex "Turned the architecture world upside down". The complex is locally known at the Beaubourg, but  is named after the President of France- Georges Pompidou who decided its creation. It was finished in January of 1977. Since its creation it has had 150 million visitors.