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1936 Piraeus, Greece - 2017 Rome, Italy. Known for: Found object assemblage, installations, arte povera.
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations*... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations* that offered a poetic counterstatement to the values of high art and the corporate world, died on Feb. 16 in Rome. He was 80. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Mr. Kounellis emerged in... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations* that offered a poetic counterstatement to the values of high art and the corporate world, died on Feb. 16 in Rome. He was 80. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Mr. Kounellis emerged in the late 1960s as a leader of Arte Povera* (“Poor Art”), a mostly Italian movement that, responding to the political turbulence of the time, embraced a defiantly anticapitalist, anti-hierarchical philosophy of art making. The term alluded to the... Read full biography
"Jannis Kounellis, Leader in 60's 'Poor Art' Movement, Dies at 80 by William Grimes, February 21, 2017. The New York Times, Art & Design section. Jannis Kounellis, a Greek-born Italian artist who made use of humble materials like burlap sacks, wax and coal in works of sculpture and installations* that offered a poetic counterstatement to the values of high art and the corporate world, died on Feb. 16 in Rome. He was 80. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Mr. Kounellis emerged in the late 1960s as a leader of Arte Povera* (“Poor Art”), a mostly Italian movement that, responding to the political turbulence of the time, embraced a defiantly anticapitalist, anti-hierarchical philosophy of art making. The term alluded to the Polish director Jerzy Grotowski’s concept of “poor theater,” stripped of sets and props to encourage direct engagement.... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Arte Povera
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Conceptual
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Assemblage
- •Charcoal
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Enamel Paint
- •Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Iron, Cast Iron
- •Oil Paint
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wax
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals