Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1985 - Volume 6 - Numéro 1 - Pages 67-74Painting in France (1945-1960), Etienne Fouilloux. The 1950s witness the triumph of abstract art. Until the beginning of the decade, that was not yet clear. And nothing during the pre-war was paving the way for a victory of abstraction. After the Liberation, abstract art had to battle against a two-fold realism : the « new realism » of Communist artists and Bernard Buffet's expressionism. It took several years before abstract art was to impose itself. 8 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.