In subsequent years, the artists «Figuration narrative» engage in open polemic with the existing movements, accusing members of the Paris School of Social neutrality, and American pop art - in the formalism and the celebrated "art for art's sake."
By the end of 1960, when the rise of the youth rebellion that culminated in the student revolution of 1968, the political orientation of European painting has become paramount. Painting is no longer the object of contemplation, it becomes a means of communication. In discussions discussed everything except the form. The main task of the artists in this moment - to achieve potency of the poster. The new figurative painting came to be called "painting protest.
Exhibitions have become indistinguishable from political demonstrations. In 1969, the Salon of youth was an exhibition of painting "Red Room - for Vietnam" Gilles Ayo (son of the architect Emile Ayo
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