Figuration Libre
フィギュラシオン・リーブル / 1980s / Style / Pop
A 1980s French return to figuration that released comics, rock, television, advertising, and graffiti into fast contours, saturated flat color, painted stories, walls, and posters.
Comic figures with heavy black contour / Flat saturated red, yellow, blue, and green / Words, signs, and panel-like divisions inside the image / Fast large marks associated with murals and posters
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Releasing story and text into a bright large field for music or comics · Prioritizing hand-painted speed and crowded figures over polished Pop Art
- Type
- Make heavy hand lettering part of the image and separate explanatory body copy.
- Composition
- Surround a central figure with small figures, words, and signs until forms fill the gaps.
- Material
- Draw directly in acrylic, marker, or enamel on white, retaining correction and line wobble.
- Caution
- Do not reduce it to colorful graffiti. State the 1980s French artists, popular-media circulation, and return to the figure.
- Further study
- Robert Combas, Hervé Di Rosa and Rémi Blanchard / 1980s French popular culture / relations with Bad Painting and graffiti
Related entries
- Neo-Expressionism (新表現主義)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Rebellion.Compare Figuration Libre and Neo-Expressionism
- Graffiti Pop (グラフィティ・ポップ)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Rebellion / Play.Compare Figuration Libre and Graffiti Pop
More from Pop
Continue through styles in the same Pop family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Chicago Imagists (シカゴ・イマジスツ)Shared effects: Play / Rebellion / Exhilaration.
- Pop Art (ポップアート)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Play.
- Memphis (メンフィス)Shared effects: Play / Exhilaration.
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