Among its highlights is the country's largest collection of 19th and early 20th century paintings and drawings by the American realist William Glackens, the most extensive holding in the U.S. of works by post-World War II, avant - garde
CoBrA artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, and extensive holdings of works by leading Latin American artists.
Vigas's paintings from this period, still influenced by pre-history and mythology, ooze with thick paint and evoke the art made by
the CoBrA artists, distinguished by immediacy of thought without restrictions or pre-established reasoning.
COBRA artists got their inspiration from several different sources, notably: prehistoric art, various forms of primitivism, so - called folk art, gestural and textual graffiti, Nordic mythology, and especially children's pictures, Art Brut and other types of Outsider art.
His early influences while growing up in France were that of Vincent Van Gogh, Jean Dubuffet and
the CoBrA artist Karel Appel.
Not exact matches
From 1947 Jorn was an leafing
artist in the new
COBRA art movement with
artists from Denmark, The Netherlands and Belgium.
Jarrell, who is both an
artist and fashion designer, recounts the founding of the Coalition of Black Revolutionary
Artists (COBRA) in Chicago, after «speeches, marches, rallies and demonstrations filled the airwaves, newscasts, and Black artists» consciousness nationwide.
Artists (
COBRA) in Chicago, after «speeches, marches, rallies and demonstrations filled the airwaves, newscasts, and Black
artists» consciousness nationwide.
artists» consciousness nationwide.»
The works employ broad gestures, bold and uncommon colors and an imaginative subjectivity reminiscent of mid-century New York School abstract painting and the
CoBrA group of
artists.
C1S — Coated on one side (paper or print) C2S — Coated on two sides (paper or print) CA2M — Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid) CAA — College Art Association CalArts — California Institute for the Arts CACT — Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art CAFA — China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) CAPC — Contemporary Art Museum (Bordeaux) C.G.A.C. — Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (Santiago de Compostela) CIFO — Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami) CIMAN — International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art CMYK — Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black), which are the primary printing colors CNAP — Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris)
CoBrA — Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), and Amsterdam (A), a free - spirited Marxist avant - garde movement lasting from 1948 to 1951 featuring the
artists Asger Jorn, Christian Dotremont, and Constant, whose countries of origins make up the group's name CoCA — Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu (Torun) CPIF — Centre Photographique d'Ile - de-France CPLY — The name American
artist William N. Copley went by as a painter CP — Cancellation proof (the proof made after an edition is finished as evidence that the
artist has defaced the plate) C - Print — Chromogenic color print CR — Catalogue raisonné CTP — Computer to plate, digital printing process
Anton Rooskens is a Dutch
artist, a
COBRA member who created a personal language filled with magic signs in black, yellow, ochre, blue, and red.
Winnie Sze Winnie Sze proposes to interrogate the significant but overlooked role a black African
artist played on the founding of
CoBRA.
In 1948 expressionist
artists including Appel, Jorn, Constant, Carl - Henning Pedersen and Corneille formed the
CoBrA group.
Jeff Donaldson, a cofounder of the Chicago - based black
artist collective AFRI -
COBRA, not only added to this milieu with his own African textile — inspired, mixed - media works, but he wrote influential art manifestos and helped organize international expositions of black
artists in Africa and North America.
Among the highlights are key works in the careers of Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Chaïm Soutine, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Charley Toorop, Max Beckmann, Jackson Pollock, Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, and other
artists of the
CoBrA group.
The
CoBrA movement (created by
artist from Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam), which Alechinsky joined, was an art collective experimenting within literature and visual arts.
Participates in exhibitions with the
COBRA group, launched by Christian Dotremont; where he influenced
artists like Alechinsky.
The museum also will display selections from its rich reserve of paintings and drawings by American realist William Glackens, as well as the permanent collection of
CoBrA art, post-World War II expressionist pieces by
artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Denmark.
Like these
artists, Haberny messes with art - historical forms and materials, combining elements of Arte Povera,
CoBrA, Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Modern Art with a focus on Surrealism including pieces by Max Ernst, André Masson and Roberto Matta as well as works by
CoBrA group
artists including Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel and Corneille.
This was just as well, because what emerges in surveying the career of this Danish
artist, perhaps best known as a cofounder of both
CoBrA and the Situationist International, is not a narrative
Opening: «Asger Jorn: The Open Hide» at Petzel Gallery One of the founding members of
COBRA — a postwar avant - garde movement consisting of abstract
artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam — Asger Jorn is famous for the spontaneous use of color and form in his experimental paintings, drawings and sculptures, made from the mid-1930s through the time of his death in 1973.
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COBRA is the acronym of Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, the cities from which the participating
artists originated.
In Europe, gesturalism was practised in the Art Informel movement (the European version of Abstract Expressionism) by
artists like Georges Mathieu and Wols, by exponents of Tachisme, and by Asger Jorn (1914 - 73) and Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) of the
COBRA group.
The European equivalent of the gesturalism or «action painting» style of American Abstract Expressionism,
COBRA was a non-conformist avant - garde movement founded by painters, sculptors and graphic
artists from the Danish group Host, the Dutch group Reflex, and the Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group.
To propagate their artistic visions, the group published manifestos and ten issues of the magazine
CoBrA, in which they also printed a number of their «word - paintings» - collaborative efforts of
artists and writers.
Its collection comprises 6,000 works, including an extensive group of works by American painter William Glackens, along with works by the
CoBrA group of expressionist painters and numerous works by Latin American
artists.
Important
COBRA, Art Informel and Tachisme painters included the Dutch
artist Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) and the German - born painters Hans Hartung (1904 — 1989) and Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 — 1951).
Participating
artists: Shimon Minamikawa and Ei Arakawa; with Richard Aldrich, Chim ↑ Pom, XYZ Collective (presenting:
COBRA, Soshiro Matsubara, Futoshi Miyagi, Maki Katayama), Tobias Madison & Matthew Lutz - Kinoy.
CoBrA Group An association of Dutch, Danish and Belgium Expressionist
artists 1948 - 51.
Petzel Gallery will present six paintings by Danish
artist and founding member of the
CoBrA movement, Asger Jorn (b. 1914, d. 1973).
She presumably had the opportunity to consider the work of Europeans of shared sensibility,
artists like Mathieu, Soutine, Soulages, de Stael, Vedova, and even Alechinsky and Jorn of the
CoBrA group.
Like Dada
artists before them, the members of
COBRA were rebels; perhaps affected by German wartime Occupation, or by the apparent collapse of Western morality, they rejected conventional values and promoted the idea of free expression.
The New York School was the locus of this phenomenon, but it had related currents the world over, including European tangents like
CoBrA (an amalgam of painters from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), a loose federation of
artists lumped under the rubric Art Informel and the Art Brut of Jean Dubuffet.
The Danish
artist and
COBRA co-founder's work ranges across a broad series of compositional techniques and practices that defined him as a founding voice of post-war abstraction, yet his reputation seems almost underemphasized by comparison to his stature in Europe.
Out of that project, painters Jeff Donaldson and Wadsworth Jarrell, along with printmaker Barbara Jones - Hogu, partnered with painter Gerald Williams and myself, fashion designer Jae Jarrell, to found
COBRA (Coalition of Black Revolutionary
Artists).
By 1970 membership grew to ten and
COBRA changed its name to AFRICOBRA, signifying African Commune of Bad Relevant
Artists.