Article: Ernesto Deira at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.(BUENOS AIRES)

Dictionary definition: New Figuration
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists;      293 words ...New Figuration. A very broad term for a general revival of figurative painting in the 1960s following a period when abstraction (particularly ...

Dictionary definition: New Realism
The Oxford Dictionary of Art;      366 words ... ... First, it has been used in a way similar to the term New Figuration to describe a revival of figurative art after a dominant period of abstraction; whereas ‘New Figuration’ has been used very broadly, however ...

Dictionary definition: Otra Figuración
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art;      300 words ... ... xF3;n ( Another Figuration ). A group of four Argentinian painters who worked closely together from 1961 to 1966: Ernesto Deira (1928–86), Rómulo Macció (1931– ), Luis Felipe Noé ...

Dictionary definition: Smith, Richard
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art;      534 words ... ... British Pop). His work was often very large in scale and ‘in the early Sixties he formed a link between the new figuration of Pop and the pure abstraction of the Situation painters’ ( Simon Wilson, British Art from Holbein to the Present ...

Article: Tony Cragg talks to Barry Schwabsky
Artforum;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...BARRY SCHWABSKY: When I first started seeing your work in the early to mid-'80s, it was related to the new figuration. In fact, that's the title you gave to one of your found-plastic wall pieces from 1985. Was that maybe a misreading ...

Article: MFA has serious fun with `Face & Figure'
The Boston Globe;  November 15, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... enlarged or distorted that it might be mistaken for abstraction; the body as vessel for potent political messages. The new figuration led to a slew of shows. Boston has had its share. Now the Museum of Fine Arts, which offered an excellent 1990 exhibition ...

Article: All that is solid melts into air
The Independent - London;  June 18, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... came in 1929 with the discovery of Surrealism; the second only five years later in 1934 with the first experiments in a new figuration. Like Giacometti's own progress, this show is not easy. Often, it is uncomfortably confrontational; from the watching ...