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New Realism
The term "Nouveau Réalisme" refers to two distinct groups of painters who opposed abstraction, one in the 1940s and the other, the one of interest here, in the 1960s.
The movement was founded by Yves Klein and the art critic Pierre Restany, during a collective exhibition in Milan. The New Realists share obsessions and a pictorial language with those of Pop Art. The multiplication of the same object, work on a color palette diverging from reality, and a certain poetry of the everyday are the main visual markers of this group of artists, among whom, in addition to Klein, we find Arman, César, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mimmo Rotella, and Jean Tinguely.
