What Was The Difference Between The 1960's And 1970

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Although in the 1960’s and 1970’s, there were the emergence of new styles of art like Pop and Performance arts, painting was still there between that period and it is also the art form in contemporary art.

What must be known is the fact that in the 1960’s when artists moved away from painting (Khan Academy, n. d), there was yet another style of art called Post Painterly Abstraction ( a type of late Abstract Expressionism) which focused much on painting. In the same 1960’s, minimalism emerged in America which succeeded the Post Painterly Abstraction to “become an influential style around the world in sculpture, painting and architecture” (Encyclopedia of Art, n. d).

Besides, some styles of painting during that time included photorealism,