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.

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At a glance

Visual cues

  • 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

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

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Dictionary entry

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

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