The objective of this study is to investigate a sense of resistance appeared in the 1960s-1970s French Art through Nouvelle Figuration. France in the time Nouvelle Figuration emerged was confused politically due to the war with the colonial states as ...
The objective of this study is to investigate a sense of resistance appeared in the 1960s-1970s French Art through Nouvelle Figuration. France in the time Nouvelle Figuration emerged was confused politically due to the war with the colonial states as well as the Cold war, anxiety in everyday was aggravated by visualizing Recession and liberal consumption gap in life. In the process, a radical social contradictions and conflicts suppressed before and after started to appeal, a radical social revolution like 68 Student movement might be required. Nouvelle Figuration emerged in the time showed the works that had reflected private sense of resistance directly in that time of France.
The works implemented by Nouvelle Figuration, it can be seen to be important in that accepted the images of the mass media developed rapidly at that time, the screen like graphics was the most typical formative features. Despite this form was very similar to Pop art or Hyperréalisme in the US to draw attention in Europe the works of Nouvelle Figuration revealed unique aspects of the resistance due to the effect on French society and the art world.
Therefore, this paper was to attempt to analyze it around working methods that Nouvelle Figuration painters tried most frequently. Nouvelle Figuration painters tried to verify the existence of the target that they wanted to accuse by introducing photographic images to encounter in the real world frequently in the works, to meet the reality at that time more vividly through photorealistic depiction. In addition, they tried to approach to problems emerged in a consumer society by introducing the brand image to represent the consumer market expanded in 1960s and its culture and reality directly. Thus, working way using the images bearing reality can be seen to present social reality Nouvelle Figuration painters wanted to reform for the visitors directly.
Meanwhile Nouvelle Figuration painters accepted rhetoric of satire used in a way that criticized power structure. They implemented the works to grid at power structure and its situation using the way of unique humorous expression that cartoon images had and the symbolism that cartoon characters had. In addition, they used playful elements caused in the process by parodying the works considered to be important in art history. In addition, they criticized real politics and power structure directly through the way to caricaturing the actual politicians's image.
This paper was to examine the traces to accept the type of political posters so that Nouvelle Figuration's works delivered political claims effectively. This attempt was expressed through the way to use the faces and characters of revolutionaries who founded particularly political ideology. In addiction, Nouvelle Figuration painters made grater number of people to inspire a sense of resistance by installing the works in the usual places as well as the visitors to experience a real society indirectly through installed works that visitors participated in themselves.
Through such discussions, this paper was to check that a sense of resistance that Nouvelle Figuration implemented was a key driver flowing round realism in French Art in the 1960s-1970s, ultimately art was found to have the same meaning to make the society that guarantees freedom as human being based on the belief that art ant communication with society directly.