1960s
Art made in the 1960s: Pop, Minimalism, Op Art, happenings, Fluxus, performance and Conceptual art, in Europe, the Americas and Japan.
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The 1960s multiplied the ways art could be made and where it could happen. Pop Art took its imagery from advertising, comics and celebrity: Roy Lichtenstein enlarged a weeping comic-book heroine, printed dots and all, in Drowning Girl (1963), Andy Warhol silkscreened soup cans and film stars in series, and the British painter David Hockney recorded Californian swimming pools, as in A Bigger Splash (1967).
At the same time many artists stripped art back. Frank Stella's black stripe paintings insisted on the picture as a flat object, Minimalist sculptors used industrial boxes and bricks, and Anthony Caro set brightly painted steel directly on the floor without a plinth. The composer John Cage's ideas about chance fed happenings, Fluxus events and performance, where Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964) invited audiences to cut away her clothes. Conceptual artists made the idea itself the work, and Arte Povera in Italy and Neo-Concretism in Brazil offered their own alternatives.
