One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and es
On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the “Nouveaux Realistes” (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, “The New Realists recognize their col
The Venezuelan painter and sculptor Alejandro Otero (1921-1990) was one of the most significant artists in the history of abstraction. Between 1955 and 1960, he developed an extraordinary series of 75
