Figuration Libre
Figuration Libre [figyrasjõˈlibrə;] denotes a trend in fine arts that emerged in France in the 1980s .
The figuration Libre was created as a reaction to conceptual art that was perceived as too rational . The hallmark is a vital narrative imagery in which elements of traditional archaic art forms as well as set pieces from everyday and subculture are quoted and freely combined with one another: for example, comic elements, graffiti or primitivist symbols can be included, which lead to an ironic social and culture-critical imagery are put together; a method that is similar to the American pattern painting of the 1960s and 1970s.
Emergence
The term Figuration Libre was coined in 1981 by Fluxus artist Ben Vautier in an article in Flash Art magazine for a group of young artists. The group consisted, among others, of Remi Blanchard , François Boisrond , Robert Combas , Louis Jammes and Hervé Di Rosa , who lived in New York between 1982 and 1985 together with American contemporaries such as Jean-Michel Basquiat , Keith Haring , Kenny Scharf or Tseng Kwong City , London , Pittsburgh and Paris exhibited. In 1985 the artists of Figuration Libre were represented at the Biennale de Paris .
Corresponds are the Transavanguardia in Italy or Neo-Expressionism , or the Neue Wilden (also "Junge Wilde") in Germany and Austria as well as New Image Painting , Bad Painting or Wild Style in the USA .
literature
- Figuration libre and the new figuratives: Positions of contemporary French art from the Ludwig Collection , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-929292-03-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin Thomas: Until today. Style history of the fine arts in the 20th century. , DuMont, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7701-1939-8 , pp. 13, 364