Great influence on the new French figurativistov had an American artist Peter Saul, the representative of the Chicago school of pop art in the early 1960's who lived in Paris. In the works of Saul combined eccentric comic book imagery and powerful pictorial gesture of abstract expressionism. Especially attractive for the European left has politicized artists Saul and his attack on bourgeois "good taste". "I have it carefully so as not to lose a single gram of vulgarity," said the artist. In his works, beginning 1960 Sol mercilessly mocks the values of American society, personified heroes of popular culture. In mid-1960 he actively opposed the Vietnam War, calling their work "indictment". His paintings are like political cartoons. Sol had a great influence on the style of real comics and applied graphics, making it one of the fathers of punk aesthetics.
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