"poor art", Italian art movement of the late 1960s and 1970s (characterized by sculptures made from common natural materials, such as dirt, tree branches, newspaper, etc.)
The term Arte Povera (Italian for poor art) was introduced by the
Italian art critic and
curator,
Germano Celant, in
1967. His pioneering texts and a series of key exhibitions provided a collective identity for a number of young Italian artists based in
Turin,
Milan,
Genoa and
Rome. They were working in radically new ways, breaking with the past and entering a challenging dialogue with trends in
Europe and
America. The artists would use any medium they could get for free or very, very cheap. Sticks, rocks, slate, rope and iron were common materials in the artist's artworks. The term "Poor Art" is not an attack on the artists, but rather a reference that any poor man or woman could get involved.
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