Gérard Fromanger (6 September 1939 – 18 June 2021) was a French visual artist. A painter who also employed collage, sculpture, photography, cinema, and lithography, he was associated with the French artistic movement of the 1960s and 1970s, called Figuration Narrative (new figurative representation), somewhat like pop art. Fromanger was alsi associated with photorealism. Fromanger studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his first solo exhibition was held in 1966. Souffles, his large translucent "half-balloon" street sculptures, attracted attention in 1968. He also collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard to make the short "Film-tract 1968". Urban life and the consumer society are themes well represented in his work. The Nouvelle Figuration movement (sometimes called figuration narrative or représentation narrative) is considered to have been a reaction against abstract art, with a more political slant than American pop art. Fromanger has been described as a social critic who takes a political position without neglecting the poetic dimension. Michel Foucault, a friend of Fromanger's, wrote about his work in Photogenic Painting. In 2005, a retrospective exhibition, Gérard Fromanger: rétrospective 1962–2005, was shown at various galleries in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Fromanger lived and worked in both Siena and Paris. Books Bernard Ceysson Gérard Fromanger (Catalogue for retrospective exhibition 2005) Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault Photogenic Painting (2000) Alain Jouffroy Gérard Fromanger (1973) Serge July Fromanger (2000) References Interview with Fromanger, plus pictures and videos Centre Pompidou French National Library Nouvelle Figuration External links Interview with Fromanger Fromanger and Jouffroy Souffles Portrait of Gérard Fromanger by Braun-Vega (1984) 1939 births 2021 deaths People from Yvelines 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres