Uruguay
Contemporary Art in Uruguay is a dynamic and evolving field, reflecting the country's rich cultural heritage and innovative spirit. Uruguayan artists, through various mediums such as painting, sculpture, and digital art, explore themes ranging from political commentary to social issues and personal experiences. Institutions like the National Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo have been instrumental in fostering this growth. Uruguayan contemporary art, thus, serves as a powerful platform for dialogue and expression, pushing boundaries and challenging conventions.
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This is a collective term used to refer to a wide range of arts and practices that include the historical and ecological approaches to artistic works. The term often encompasses the ecological concerns though it is neither certain nor specific on this. It acknowledges and appreciates the early history environmental art movement as well as the art with a lot of activist concerns not forgetting the art that celebrates the connection between nature and the artist by use of natural materials.
Refers to loosely affiliated movements that relate to minimalism, geometric abstraction and op art that originated from Southern California back in the 1960s and was greatly influenced by John McLaughlin. Artists focused on sensory phenomena such as light and others as the center of their work. In addition, they incorporated latest technologies in aerospace and engineering industries so as to develop light filled and sensuous objects.
Art movement that originated from Italy in the year 1947 when Lucio Fontana founded it with an intention to synthesize sound, color, movement and space into an entirely new type of art. The main ideas of the movement came from his manifesto that was published in 1496 where he spoke of "spatial art" to keep the spirit of the post war age. The ideas were further boosted by the five manifestos that followed the first one. Though his ideas were vague, his outlook was strongly influential probably because he was the first artist from Europe to promote art as a performance and gesture.