Italian Avant-garde
Work that doubted the painted plane itself, slashing the canvas or swapping it for poor materials, and in one case importing the view from an aircraft in flight.
Dictionary entry
- Arte Povera 1967–1970s / Style
Takes up earth, branches, cloth, stone, fire and metal, materials that are neither precious nor stable, and uses them to intervene in the commodification of art and the values of industrial society.
- Spatialism 1947–1968 / Style
An Italian movement that slashed and punctured the canvas to open painting from two-dimensional illusion into actual space. The darkness behind the cut appears as real depth, and the support itself becomes the work. The precedent that turned breaking a material's surface into a formal language.
- Aeropittura 1929–1939 / Style
The late development of Italian Futurism, which declared the view from an aircraft to be the condition of painting. Plunging perspective, whirling cloud and an earth that turns over fix the sensation of speed and altitude on the canvas. A rare case of a style made out of the height of the viewpoint.