Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Nueva Figuración sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Nueva Figuración (c. 1960s – 1970), it traces two movements that shaped it, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Abstract expressionism and Expressionism; it runs alongside one parallel movement, an indirect or contested link: Neo-expressionism.
Nueva Figuración (translated New Figuration or Neofiguration) was an artistic movement in Spain and Latin America, specifically Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela, that embraced a new form of figurative art in response to both abstraction and traditional forms of representation. Artists advocated a return to the human figure and everyday reality. They also rejected the aestheticized forms of traditional art, employing informal techniques, expressionism, and collage. Read more ↗