1. Evolving from abstract expressionism and dada, the creations of Rauschenberg, Johns, and Kaprow pioneer a "maximalist" mixed-media art that encompasses all of life.
2. New realist directions of the sixties employ the form and content of the mass media and commercial world.
3. The new realism of the seventies focuses, with extreme realism, on everyday people and the daily world.
4. By the eighties and nineties, figurative art, in many varieties, has returned to surpass abstract art in prominence.
5. The artworld, once centered in New York and Paris, becomes increasingly multicultural and intercultural.
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