Chapter 30
Global Art Since 1950 CE
By Boundless
Assemblage is the practice of creating two-dimensional or three-dimensional artistic compositions by combining and manipulating found objects.
Performance art is a genre which presents live art with a conceptual basis.
In the early 20th century, photography evolved through multiple styles as it became accepted as a legitimate fine art medium.
The Pop Art Movement began in the 1960s and questioned the boundaries between "high" and "low" art.
Photorealism or super-realism is a genre of art that that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, encompassing painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
Conceptual art is defined by concepts or ideas involved in the work taking precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
The term minimalism can be used to describe a trend in design and architecture wherein the subject is reduced to its necessary elements.
Process based art focuses on the creative journey instead of the production of an end product.
Feminist and intersectional sentiments in art have always existed in opposition to the white, patriarchal foundations and current realities of western art markets and art history.
Site-specific art refers to art that has been created for a specific environment or space.
Postmodernism had a profound influence on the concepts of race and ethnicity in the United States in the mid-20th century.
The characteristics which lend any type of art to being postmodern, such as collage, pastiche, appropriation, and the destruction of barriers between fine art and popular culture, can also be applied to sculptural works.
Neo-Expressionists sought to portray recognizable subjects in rough and violently emotional ways using vivid colors and color schemes.
Political art in the nineties was a form of protest for queer and feminist movements against the patriarchy.
Performance and conceptual art challenge the notion of visual arts.
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as a part of the creative process.
Video art is a type of art relying on moving pictures and comprising of video and/or audio data.