ArtMovement- Arte Povera

KEY IDEAS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Using unprocessed materials with references to emergence of consuming culture sought to contrast the new with the ole in order to complicate its audience’s sense of passing time.
  • Reject scientific rationalism/ They conjured a world of myth
  • Artists presented absurd, jarring and comical juxtapointitions

Arte povera is often associated with assemblage, but arte povera proposes a form of expression that is more interested in materiality and physicality, and borrows forms and materials from a life that differs most from assemblage in that there are performances and installations that have many similarities to surrealism, dada and constructivism. constructivism.

Untitled 1968 Jannis Kounellis born 1936 Purchased 1996 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T07074