Figuration Libre

Figuration Libre [ figyrasjõlibrə ;] denotes a created in the 1980s in France toward the visual arts.

Figuration Libre has emerged as a response to the perceived as too rational concept art. Mark is a vital narrative imagery, are cited both elements of traditional archaic art forms as well as fragments from the everyday and subculture in and combined with each other: for example, may contain comic elements, graffiti or primitivist symbols that an ironic socio- are assembled and cultural-critical imagery; a method that is similar to the U.S. pattern painting of the 1960s and 1970s.

Formation

The term Figuration Libre was coined in 1981 by the Fluxus artist Ben Vautier in an article in the magazine Flash Art for a group of young artists. The group consisted among other things of Remi Blanchard, François Boisrond, Robert Combas, Louis Jammes and Hervé Di Rosa, together with U.S. contemporaries such as Jean -Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf Tseng Kwong or in between 1982 to 1985 New York City, London, Pittsburgh and Paris exhibited. 1985 Artist of figuration libre were represented at the Biennale de Paris.

Correspondences are Transavanguardia in Italy or the neo-expressionism, or the New Wild Ones (also called " Junge Wilde " ) in Germany and Austria, and New Image Painting, bad painting, or Wild Style in the United States.