It’s poor art. Not exactly…
“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.” ~Jannis Kounellis.
This artwork is a fashion inspiration…
Arte Povera means literally ‘poor art’ but the word poor here is related to uses of other materials other than those you buy from an art store.
It’s the art movement that uses materials different from the traditional ones of oil paint on canvas, acrylics, bronze, or carved marble…
Materials used by the artists included rags, soil, twigs, and other nontraditional art materials.
The artists were challenging and disrupt the values of the commercialized contemporary gallery system of the time mostly in Italy.
The term was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. He died in 2020 at the age of 80 from covid 19.
When he said Arte Povera…he wasn’t really talking about a lack of money, but about making art without the traditional materials and practices.
