Removed art of all unnecessary elements. Shape is emphasized. Industrial materials preferred for their scale, symmetry, neutral colors, and uniform surface finish.
As a reaction to most art of the time, artists related their work more closely to everyday life by using as their sources TV, movies, comics, and film. Commercial production processes were preferred.
Narrative content and imagery return to art, in part as a reaction to the previous decades of abstraction and Minimalism.
The use of highly polished surfaces, brilliant color, and high-tech materials, similar to those found on surfboards and automobiles.
The boundaries between art and life, and the artmaker and art viewer, are removed. Life experience, the role of chance, and intuitive impulse are central.
