The nouveaux réalistes term was coined in 1960 by French art critic Pierre Restany to describe a group of artists formed
in motion under this symbol and is also joining forces around a manifesto. Then it was extended to a group of American artists who exist in the current so called "neo - dada" and the first
expressions of painting called "pop." This art is called the ''art of assemblage.
These American artists among them Jasper Johns, Rauschenerg, Jim Dine son expression of a new American realism that radically denies the supremacy purchase dal''espressionismo abstract after the war. An art that challenges the values that are the basis of an abstract and proposes engaged in the real economy. The collage, assemblage and the performance are practices that can put at the heart of the real object These practices refer to the dada movement, but also cubism: the interest in the road, the magazine, l '' automobile, household items, waste, directly taken from everyday life.
Against "art for art." The term realism is used to define all of these new expressions of art, American and European working to deal with reality.