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20th century Post-war European figuration
In the central years of the century. XX, despite the followers of European informalisms claiming texture and irregularity, the new figurative languages configure an image of contemporary man through new standards of expressive freedom.
The human being was the essential
subject for the British Lucian Freud or Henry Moore, in Portugal Manuel Pereira
da Silva followed this trend, which combined the figurative with a plastic
language close to the abstraction of matter.
Other artists, marked by a
feeling of pessimism and anxiety caused by the crises of the two wars, impose a
new sense of alienation from the body. It is represented distorted and injured,
as occurs in Francis Bacon's inhuman characters or disintegrated, like Alberto
Giacometti's evanescent figures.