"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Socrates
From exploring our mind-map, I have decided to start my investigation on 'Arte povera': Which was a radical Italian art movement from the late 1960s to 1970s whose artists explored a range of unconventional processes and non traditional 'everyday' materials'
The term 'Arte Povera' means 'poor art' and was introduced by Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. But the word 'poor' refers to the movements signature exploration of a wide range of materials beyond the traditional ones. The materials used by these artists included soil, rags and twigs. 'In using such throwaway materials they aimed to challenge and disrupt the values of the commercialised contemporary gallery system.' Their work marked a reaction against the modernist abstract paintings that had dominated 1950s European art. Whilst rejecting against American Minimalism and its enthusiasm for technology.
Leading artists were Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis,Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zori
The term 'Arte Povera' means 'poor art' and was introduced by Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. But the word 'poor' refers to the movements signature exploration of a wide range of materials beyond the traditional ones. The materials used by these artists included soil, rags and twigs. 'In using such throwaway materials they aimed to challenge and disrupt the values of the commercialised contemporary gallery system.' Their work marked a reaction against the modernist abstract paintings that had dominated 1950s European art. Whilst rejecting against American Minimalism and its enthusiasm for technology.
Leading artists were Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi, Jannis Kounellis,Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zori
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