Arte Povera is a style of modern art. The term was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance.
Arte povera
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Arte Povera
The term Arte Povera was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967.
Arte Povera - "poor art" or "impoverished art" - was the most significant and influential avant-garde movement to emerge in Europe in the 1960s.
Arte Povera : Italian for "poor art," it was mostly sculptural work made from everyday materials including soil, cement, twigs, newspapers, instead of traditional materials like stone and bronze.
Arte Povera
An Italian term 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.
Arte Povera
In 1967, Germano Celant, inspired by the "poor theatre" of Jerzy Grotowski, spoke of "poor art", referring to the work of certain Italian artists, including Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Mario Merz, Pino Pascali, ...
Emerging as an international contemporary art movement during the 1960s and 1970s during the era of Pop-Art, and the Italian movement Arte Povera, ...
From this it follows that conceptual art can be almost anything, but from the late 1960s certain prominent trends appeared such as Performance (or Action) art, Land art, and the Italian movement Arte Povera (poor art).
 See also: Movement, Sculpture, Painting, Art movement, Expression
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