Petzel Gallery will present six paintings by Danish artist and founding member of
the CoBrA movement, Asger Jorn (b. 1914, d. 1973).
The international
CoBrA movement of 1948 - 1951, a European avant - garde embodying post-WWII freedom, has been compared to American Action Painting in both its aesthetic and its effect.
The CoBrA movement (created by artist from Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam), which Alechinsky joined, was an art collective experimenting within literature and visual arts.
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Rooms 4 to 6 are predominantly non ‐ Italian, with a room dedicated to British masters in the 1950s (Kenneth Armitage, Francis Bacon, Alan Davie, Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland), and another dedicated to
the CoBrA movement in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, with paintings by Alechinsky, Karel Appel and Asger Jorn, as well as Jean Dubuffet.
Inspired by
the CoBrA movement and abstract expressionism, Reafsnyder's paintings are thick with paint, exuberant gestures, and vibrant color.
The show continues with contemporaries from Joan Miró Yves Tanguy to Giorgio Morandi, as you'd expect, but also makes forays into areas you might not, such as Arte Povera and
CoBrA movements.
Not exact matches
Lower yourself down like in the pike push - up, but take the
movement further by lowering down your hips and moving your head forward and up, until you lock out your arms again and have an over-arched back (almost like the yoga pose «
cobra»).
From 1947 Jorn was an leafing artist in the new
COBRA art
movement with artists from Denmark, The Netherlands and Belgium.
The painterly style also emerges from expressionist painting
movements of the time, including
CoBrA Group and Art Informel, important
movements in art in Europe near the time Golub lived in Paris, and abstract expressionism lurks in the strokes and the scrapes too.
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
THE AVANT - GARDE WO N'T GIVE UP:
COBRA AND ITS LEGACY Blum & Poe is pleased to present The Avant - Garde Won't Give Up:
Cobra and Its Legacy, a two - part exhibition taking place in New York and Los Angeles which will offer a broad and critical reassessment of
Cobra — an essential postwar European
movement named for the home cities Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam.
Martinez draws his inspiration from a wide - range of sources, spanning from the ever - evolving landscape of the city to major art historical
movements of the 20th century such as Abstract Expressionism,
CoBrA, Neo-Expressionism, and Surrealism.
Martinez draws his inspiration from a wide - range of sources, from the ever - evolving landscape of New York City to major art historical
movements of the 20th century such as Abstract Expressionism,
CoBrA, Neo-Expressionism, and Surrealism.
From Kohn Gallery: Martinez draws his inspiration from a wide - range of sources, spanning from the ever - evolving landscape of the city to major art historical
movements of the 20th century such as Abstract Expressionism,
CoBrA, Neo-Expressionism, and Surrealism.
During the 1940s and 50s, for instance, important works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Henri Matisse were added to the collection; also during the 50s, the museum acquired a series of works by the Russian Suprematist Kasimir Malevich, as well as design works by De Stijl, the Bauhaus Design School and related design
movements such as Russian Constructivism, as well as Kinetic art, the
COBRA group, and Pop art.
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.
The last surviving Dutch member of
CoBrA the European art
movement active in the 1950's, Corneille, has died age of 88.
Drawing his inspiration from a wide - range of sources, he involves major art historical
movements of the 20th century, as Abstract Expressionism, Neo Expressionism and
CoBrA.
Like Tachisme, the
COBRA group was closely related to the gesturalist wing of the broader European abstract expressionist school known as Art Informel, and derives its style from the early expressionist
movement in Germany.
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.
COBRA was one of the more international of modern art
movements: the name derived from the initials of the members» home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A).
Asger Jorn was a Danish painter, sculptor and writer, as well as a member of the avant - garde
movements of
COBRA and the Situationist International.
Existential Art (1940s and 1950s) John Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy, with its themes of alienation and angst in the face of the human condition, can be seen in paintings by the American Abstract Expressionists, the Informel and «
CoBrA»
movements, the French Homme - Temoin (Man as a Witness) group, the British Kitchen Sink art group, and the American Beats - all of whom from time to time are designated Existential, as are many individual painters and sculptors: like the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, and the surrealist / expressionist Francis Bacon.
Key works of Modern Art, from Giorgio Morandi to Frank Stella, and twentieth century art
movements like minimal art, pop art and
CoBrA have been brought together in a so - called «White Cube».
Meanwhile, parallel
movements in Western Europe were appearing under various titles, such as Art Informel (c.1945 - 60), along with sub-variants such as Lyrical Abstraction (late 1940s, 1950s), Tachisme (c.1945 - 60) and the
COBRA group (1948 - 51).
If Post-painterly abstraction sounds complicated, try reading about concurrent abstract expressionist
movements in Europe, such as Art Informel (1940s, 1950s), its sub-variants Tachisme (late 1940s, 1950s) Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent
COBRA group (1948 - 51).
In theory, Art Informel was the main umbrella
movement, which encompassed numerous sub-styles and sub-groups, such as Forces Nouvelles,
CoBrA, Tachisme, Art Brut, Art Non Figuratif and Lyrical Abstraction.
One of the few modern art
movements to come out of Northern Europe,
COBRA paintings are best known for their expressive brushstrokes, child - like imagery and strong primary colours.
During the 20th Century
movements such as
CoBrA and ZERO were, by definition, international with adherents practicing in different European cities and an exhibition programme touring the world.