Beginning in the 1950s, he played a central role in the Nederlandse Informele Groep (Netherlandish
Informel Group) and the Nul - groep (Nul Group)-- which were affiliated with the European Informel movement and the Zero Group, respectively — and was included in numerous important and related group exhibitions including Zero - O - Nul at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, in 1964, and Amsterdam, Paris, Düsseldorf at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1972.
Schoonhoven played a central role in the Nederlandse Informele Groep (Netherlandish
Informel Group) and the Nul - groep (Nul Group), the Dutch equivalent of ZERO.
Not exact matches
Beginning in the 1950s, he played a central role in the Nederlandse Informele Groep (Netherlandish Informal
Group) and the Nul - groep (Nul
Group)-- which were affiliated with the European
Informel movement and the ZERO
Group respectively.
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.
Rather the artists who came to be
grouped as
Informel, Jean Miotte, Jean - Paul Riopelle, Emil Schumacher and Kazuo Shiraga among others, claimed an individual freedom embodied in the spontaneity of the gestural brushstroke.
This exhibition focuses on the common traits of
Informel, post-war Germany's most important abstract art
group, and the different explorations and choices these artists made as they confronted their personal artistic ideals.
Influenced by international Art
Informel, German
Informel defined the painting of a
group of young artists in the 1950s and 1960s, forming an important school in post-war German art.
Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927)(Member of Cobra
Group: Art
Informel)- Octave (1983, Private Collection)- The Large Transparent Things (1958, Private Collection)
• COBRA
GROUP Asger Jorn (1914 - 73) Danish gesturalist painter, founder of COBRA group, linked to Art Info
GROUP Asger Jorn (1914 - 73) Danish gesturalist painter, founder of COBRA
group, linked to Art Info
group, linked to Art
Informel.
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.
COBRA European Abstract Expressionist Painting
Group: Art
Informel.
He was a founding member of the avant garde art
group COBRA, which was active between 1949 and 1952, and a member of Art
Informel.
French neo-expressionism also had its roots in the more figurative variants of Art
Informel, such as the style practised by Dutch painter Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) of the Cobra
group.
Art
Informel was related stylistically to other
groups and styles, including the Danish / Dutch / Belgian CoBrA
group, the German
groups Zen 49 and Quadriga, the Canadian Automatistes, the Italian Arte Nucleare and the Japanese Gutai association.
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.
Hesistant to align with any one school or
group Francis began to exhibit alongside Art
Informel artists in the mid 50s and then was deemed by Clement Greenberg worthy of inclusion alongside others practicing «post-painterly abstraction.»
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).
«Pittura Oggetto,» an exquisite
group exhibition curated by Natacha Carron, brings together these heirs of Lucio Fontana, who worked against the grain of American Abstract Expressionism and European Art
Informel to devise a radical new form of painting.
In Europe, abstract expressionism was known as Art
Informel (formless art), which divided into a gesturalist wing, known as Tachisme (see also the COBRA
group), and a softer style called Lyrical Abstraction.