Yves Klein, Gérard Deschamps, Lucian Freud, etc.
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Tinguely Jean
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Christo
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Arman
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César Baldaccini
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Rotella Mimmo
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Villeglé Jacques
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Gilli Claude
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Raysse Martial
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The first manifesto for New Realism was published by art critique and theoretician Pierre Restany, in Paris and Milan in 1960. All living in the harsh reality of the city, the artists who belong to this movement represent their environment as they see it, both tragic and hedonistic. They choose to depict familiar objects for their esthetic value only. They use industrial techniques and materials, as well as cast off materials and visual languages. Their actions are often meant as no more than mere symbolic statements.
As stated by Pierre Restany : ”Modern nature can be found in the urban environment, in the factory, in ads and the mass media, in science and techniques.”
New Realism was made up of American and British artists, who differentiated themselves from the French branch, because they were not only realists but because they also expressed all of the themes they found in daily life.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
