The 1960s also witnessed a wholly new
type of plastic art known as Land Art (Earthworks, or Environmental art), practised by plastic artists like Robert Smithson (1938 - 73), and Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956).
Not exact matches
Essentially it means «new
art», since sculpture and certain
types of painting are considered «
plastic arts».
In essence, object
art - originated by Marcel Duchamp - is any
type of junk
plastic art, that is, any three - dimensional work made from objects or materials accumulated by the artist which are then constructed, arranged or affixed together in some symbolic or meaningful way.
The mood swing, however, could be attributed to a growing international interest in the elegant forms emerging in the new and popular kinetic
art and the effect
of technologies developed during World War II that had been taken up by designers such Charles and Ray Eames, who had experimented with fibreglass,
plastic resin and wire, to produce new
types of furniture and home accessories that were stronger, but lighter in feel than anything that had existed before.