The Trans-before-guard is a contemporary artistic movement.

Italian Trans-before-guard

This movement, appeared at the end of the Seventies in Italy, and which perdure still today, was created by a group of artists deciding to react vis-a-vis those which proclaimed the end of painting and the glory of the conceptual art and minimalist. The handle of artists engaging then in this cause preaches a return to the traditional forms of painting and printed image .

The Italian Art critic Achille Bonito Oliva gathered, with the beginning of the year 80 these some artists around the term Transavanguardia ( Trans-before-guard which was also called New Image ) in an article of the review Flash art .

This new artistic current is finally near to what is called Néo-expressionnisme which touches the Germany and the the United States.

Their frame of mind

The artists of the Trans-before-guard work around an individual expression. They do not assert references to a topicality, each one has its artistic references and draws part of its inspiration there. They assert the right to subjectivity of the artist and the expression of his own feelings as well as a free, figurative or imaginary painting.

Their topics

Works of this movement develop a detached particular universe of any temporal concept. The mixture of the influences and the quotations makes their works complex. The artists represent poetic, grotesque and mythical figures. They paint realistic, imaginary or allegorical portraits, mythological, religious and narrative representations.

Principal artists

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Sources

  • Bonito Oliva, Achilles, " The trans-before-guard italienne" , the Time, fashion, morals, passion. Aspects of the art of today, 1977-1987 , catalogs exposure, Paris, Center Georges Pompidou, 1987, p.562-565

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