October 13th, 2009
Michelangelo Pistoletto – Venus of Rags
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Venus of the Rags is redolent of the radical sixties & also an icon of Italian Arte Povera. Arte Povera was young & getting started when Pistoletto created the Venus. The sculpture speaks to a few key ideas of this style. Arte Povera is seen as anti-Modernist in that it ostensibly rejected the idealistic high-Modern minimalism of the time.
