Arte povera 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

An Italian term, it was applied by art critic Germano Celant in 1967 to a group of Italian artists active in Rome, Genoa, Milan and Turin in the 1960s and 1970s. They were perceived as radical because [..]

painting, works on paper, sculpture. This term refers to the Italian art movement in which artists worked outside of the traditional art-making mediums. Instead, they used materials which could be acq [..]

Arte Povera (‘poor art’) was an art movement that emerged in Italy in the 1960s. Arte Povera artists included Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Giovanni Anselmo and Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Aside from the intellectual stance of the movement, Arte Povera is basically the legitimate justification for creating art of junk and found objects. Arte Povera was a term coined by the Italian art c [..]

(art) A radical Italian modern art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.