Sentences with phrase «while informel»

While Informel is often regarded as the European equivalent of Abstract Expressionism, it is distinguished from its American counterpart, by a loss of faith in progress and the collective possibilities of an avant garde.

Not exact matches

While Christie's is focusing on the French and international artists from the 80's onwards, with several brilliant post-war lots, it appears Sotheby's will have many more works from the post-war period, with a distinctive focus on French Art Informel, and Contemporary in broader sense.

Exploring 20th century art and its influences world - wide, Entwistle (New York, main) will show tribal sculptures side by side with post war Japanese paintings of the Gutai and Informel movements; while Axel Vervoordt (Antwerp, main) will curate a rare solo presentation of Masatoshi Masanobu, a significant artist from Gutai's second wave.

In post war decades, the abstract expressionism slid into different fields of op art and geometric abstraction in United States, while the European answer was the invention of lyrical abstraction, art informel and political abstraction in the works of CoBrA members Karel Appel, Constant and Asger Jorn.

While in Paris, he discovered the work of artists associated with Art Informel, a pictorial movement that developed in Europe during the 1940s and 1950s with Jean Fautrier, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tàpies, and Alberto Burri.

In Untitled (1958), Chu Teh - Chun conflates the Chinese landscape painting tradition with the free spirit of Art Informel and Western abstraction; while in Bangkok III (2013), Andreas Gursky depicts the Chao Phraya as a dark, reflective flow, conjuring a lineage of painterly depictions of water, from the cascading riverbanks of Song dynasty landscape paintings to Claude Monet's Nymphéas.