Sentences with phrase «informel critic»

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Regarded by critics as one of the most important members of the Art Informel movement - the European version of abstract expressionism - the Portuguese - born French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was famous for her intricate brand of abstract art, as exemplified by canvases like Theatre de Gerard Philipe (1975, Unterlinden Museum, Colmar).

The actual name «Art Informel» was first coined in 1951 by the French art critic Michel Tapie, when describing the improvization (untouched by past or contemporary conventions) practised by a number of painters at his Paris exhibition on the theme of «Extreme Tendencies in Non-Figurative Painting».

Art Informel Term coined by French critic Michel Tapie, and used from the 1950s to describe the European equivalent to American abstract expressionism.

As a result, the term Art Autre - from the title of the exhibition and Tapies book - is a not uncommon synonym for Art Informel, although the latter seems to be the term favoured by most art critics.