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Artists are replacing traditional artistic concerns with 'construction'. They stress the physical characteristics of materials rather than symbolism.
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Artists are focusing on posing difficult questions to the viewers, asking and exploring such things as: what is the extent of an artist's creativity and what is the overall definition of art?
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The Bauhaus Movement focuses on reducing decoration and frills of objects of art and creating them equal in form and function.
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Surrealists bypass reason to focus on the subconscious. They create works focusing on unconscious thoughts, dreams, desires, and repressions.
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Artists of the Abstract Expressionism Movement are focusing on profound emotions and universal themes. Their works are on a very large scale, romantic in mood, and expressive of individual freedom. They are considered very reflective of the American goals and attitude for this reason. The physicality of the artists' mark making are visible in every work of art.
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Pop Artists, of which there were only really a few, blend high art and popular culture. They elevate advertising, celebrity, and cartoon to the status of art, while also reflecting an ambivalent attitude.
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The Minimalism Movement is mainly a sculptural movement. Sculptures are austere, geometric, and manufactured forms. Minimalists reject the appearance of art.
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Feminist Art transforms stereotypes, and has the viewer question the social and political landscape of the time, focusing on change for the better in civil rights.
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Photorealism focuses on reintroducing planning over automatism and craftsmanship over unconscious improvisation. Photorealist painters use photographs to paint from.
