The narrative figuration is a pictorial style and an artistic movement appeared with the beginning of the year 1960 in France, in opposition to the abstraction and the Nouveau realism .

If the term appears before, the narrative figuration obtains in particular its notoriety through the exposure daily Mythologies of 1964, with the Musée of modern art of the Town of Paris.

The narrative figuration is generally attached to the Nouvelle figuration or the Pop art. Among his inspirations one counts the Cartoon, the Photographie and the whole of the images of the daily newspaper. The topics of works are generally attached to the scenes of the daily newspaper and social or political claims.

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It is a style which implements the piece of the daily life

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