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1951
 
    
In Christ of St John of the CrossSalvador Dali paints an image of the crucified Christ seeming to fly on his cross       
1951
 
    
Henri Matisse completes the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, with every detail designed by himself       
1953
 
    
US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938       
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       
1957
 
    
Australian artist Arthur Boyd begins his series of paintings about an aboriginal stockman, Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste       
1960
 
   
British artist Anthony Caro begins welding and painting abstract metal sculpture      
1960
 
    
British artist Bridget Riley creates patterns that produce unexpected optical effects, in a style that becomes known as op art       
Bridget Riley, photograph by Ida Kar, c.1962
National Portrait Gallery, London

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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        
1962
 
   
Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists      
1965
 
    
An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map