Stuckism
スタッキズム / 1999– / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A movement founded in London in 1999 that opposed institutional Conceptual art by advocating figurative painting, manifestos, and public protest, often through self-portraiture, hard contour, flat non-natural color, and narrative rooms or streets.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Heavy contours around figures and rooms
- Flat, non-natural saturated color
- Frontal autobiographical or narrative scenes
- Hand-painted signs, manifestos, and public protest
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- Introducing a contemporary figurative movement through painting, manifesto, and institutional critique
- Prioritizing personal story and strong contour over polish in an exhibition or publication
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Set manifesto copy in a heavy sans-serif outside the work and reserve handwriting for signs within it.
- Composition
- Place figures frontally in shallow space and order outlined objects and color fields by narrative sequence.
- Material
- Lay opaque acrylic or oil flat, preserving black contour and uneven fill.
- Caution
- Not all contemporary figurative painting is Stuckism. The 1999 movement, manifesto, and institutional position are the boundary.
- Further study
- Billy Childish and Charles Thomson / The Stuckists manifesto / protest against institutional Conceptual art
Related entries
- Neo-Expressionism (新表現主義)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Stuckism and Neo-Expressionism
- Photorealism (フォトリアリズム)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Stuckism and Photorealism
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