«Figuration narrative» - «narrative figuration" - "Narrative Image"

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In 1964, the grand prize in Venice Biennale for the first time in history was not a European, and American-born Robert Rauschenberg. This event marked the international triumph of American pop art. But even before that point in different European countries emerged flow close pop art in its pathos. "Return to reality" was the main slogan of the era. Pop art has become synonymous with a new lifestyle of young generation. Pop in a broad sense has become a fusion of public and political activities of the new left.
In 1960 the French critic Pierre Rastani united and led the international team of artists ( "New Realists"), which included the Italian Mimmo Rotella, Daniel Spoerri Romanian Jews (Isaac Feinstein), the Bulgarian Christo, the Swiss Jean Tinguely, Arman French, Raymond Enns, Jacques de la Viyegle, Francois Dyufrenn, Niki de Saint-Phalle. An apartment Yves Klein (idol new realists) signed the manifesto.
Works by Yves Klein, was friends with Restany, in its metaphysical essence went far beyond the facilities of the New Realists, however, the use of sponges to create the famous "blue monochrome, and the first designed them Environnement and prompted Restany to find a way out to the" sredovye "art .
Realism, in the understanding of members of the group had nothing to do with figurative painting. According Restany, "new realists believe the world is like painting a huge fundamental work, parts of which they can borrow."
"New Realists" worked with the city garbage - torn advertising posters, film posters, food waste, every kind of junk and scrap metal. Rubbish subjected to artistic elaboration, "revived" in the words of Jean Tinguely, in accordance with the laws of classical art. Tengeli, who worked in Paris, became the creator of moving objects from scrap metal and parts of machinery, as if "irony" of the kinetic sites in the first avant-garde (http://visaginart.narod.ru/POST/kin.htm) . Assemblages Daniel Spoerri were shaped like a traditional still life. "Accumulation" Arman (garbage enclosed in a display of transparent plastic) laid claim to the status of sculpture. Pribivaya on canvas fragments violins, Arman argued that thus brings to the logical conclusion that not completed the Cubists, "divided" subject only to the picture.
At the very choice of material containing critical pathos to consumer society, which becomes obvious when comparing the works of "new realists" with the American pop art. American Pop artists worked with samples of "commercial paradise." "New Realists" created image "commodity hell", underside of civilization. For example, Mimmo Rotella are making their "dekollazhi" plucked from the walls of scraps of advertising posters. To pick the posters on the walls - for me the only way to protest against a society which has lost all desire for change ", - he declared.
Yet interest in social issues at the "new realists" wore a rather declarative character. Movement «narrative figuration» ( «Figuration narrative») or "Narrative image", while emerged in France and Italy, made more consistent, making his work an instrument of social control.

Attitudes towards American cultural expansion in Europe has been mixed. Conservative critic mourned the death of European culture under the onslaught of pop art, which she called "non-art," art supermarket, "kitsch," Coca-colonization of Europe. "Some leaders of Left parties have also considered the American pop art as a glorification of American imperialism . I looked for a new European figurative painting, believing that it can become a "tool to critique the overall system of the modern world." European artists wanted to make pop art to be popular, popular, democratic art. And even more - a means of political struggle.
In June 1964, a Parisian critic Gérald Gassiot-Talab, and two artists, Bernard Ransiyak and Herve Telemachus, organized a group exhibition "Modern Mythology" in the Paris Museum of Modern Art. Young artists eksperementatory Arroyo, Bertolo, Bertini Falstrem, Klyazen, Monor, Ransiyak, Rekalkati, Sol, Telemachus, Voss and others (total 34 artworks) was first put under one roof: from that moment the movement becomes more and more popular ..
Young Artists' Movement united by one goal - to make art a powerful new tool for social transformation.
Visual images are dictated by the tumultuous 60's everyday life: movies and snapshots, wall advertising, illustration, comics, combined with the classic painting and sculpture, received a most unexpected overtime. Such "re-use of popular characters and clichés removes authoritarianism their primary message, allowing you to find other ways of artistic narrative and reveal the political subtext of reality.