Plaster casts are mainly used after 1960 by Italian artists. Representatives of arte povera use them as an annotated cultural memory, e.g. Giulio Paolini creates Mimesis (1975), while Michelangelo Pistoletto creates Venus of Trash (1967). A characteristic example in the context of Italian cultured painting (pittura colta) in the 1980s are the works of Carlo Maria Mariani (1931), where a juxtaposition of elements of De Chirico’s late phase, conceptual art and the classicism of early 19th century. The postmodern movement quickly found a very positive reception in modern Greek art.
