Sentences with word «informel»

Tàpies later joined the Art Informel movement as his work turned toward the abstract in the 1950s.

The painterly abstraction of Sam Francis is most often associated with the American Abstract Expressionist movement, but Francis also spent a great deal of time in Paris and became linked with the parallel movement of Art Informel in Europe.

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.

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.»

In 1961, he joined the Zero Group founded by artists Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, who advocated for a new art form — a degree zero — to erase the destructive, violent forces by which human experience had come to be conditioned during the war, and which were expressed in the then - prevalent Art Informel style.

Maria Helena Vieria da Silva (1908 - 92) Portugese artist, exponent of Art Informel painting, noted for architectural imagery.

Their paintings demonstrate each artist's adaptation of an Abstract Expressionist approach — spontaneous gesture, subjective imagery, and emotional content — seen in relation to American precedents and contemporaneous European trends such as l'art informel and Spatialism.

Finalising his break with the East, he mounts the photos of the works he had made in Dresden and puts them in a portfolio.He starts making Informel works with titles such as Wound and Scar.

Schoonhoven played a central role in the Nederlandse Informele Groep (Netherlandish Informel Group) and the Nul - groep (Nul Group), the Dutch equivalent of ZERO.

Trained in oil painting, Chung began his practice working in the Korean Informel style before eventually developing his signature artistic technique while living in Kobe, Japan, in the early 1970s.

WOLS: Retrospective Dubbed «the absolute rebel who does not even care about rebellion» by Dominique de Menil, the German - born Parisian and art informel pioneer remains obscure despite the de Menils» enthusiastic support.

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.

Using a now - signature method in which he lays oil paint onto glass panes in order to subsequently peel off their «skins,» the artist then devised a way to reattach his flayed sheets onto waiting canvases — thereby crafting finished works that look partly like spontaneous 1950s abstractions (of the Art Informel variety), but also like torn, graffitied posters found in outer borough subway tunnels.

At the same time, Suh declined the muscular gesturalism and labored scaffolding that pervaded so much Informel and Abstract Expressionist painting at the end of the 1950s.

These celebrated artists shared the common ambition to abandon art of the past, including Post War Informel painting, and start again from «zero», forging new approaches to creativity and enlisting unprecedented media.

The famous Informel and abstraction representative Pierre Soulages will be represented by 4 pieces under lots 2, 13, 17 and 144.

He was also one of the four founding members of the Art Informel movment alongside Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet and Lucio Fontana.

In the early years his work was influenced by a kind of Art Informel Expressionism, that is to say a European model of a slightly more narrative - inflected Abstract Expressionism, haunted by ghosts of bodies.

In the early 1950s, he participated in the Italian Art Informel exhibitions.

In the meantime in Europe the French Tachism developed (a spontaneous application of blots of paint without considering any principles of composition), and later Informel (or: Informal Art).

Between his return from Kassel to Dresden and his resettlement in the West, he undertakes a series of experiments exploring Informel on the one hand and still lifes inspired by Giorgio Morandi on the other.

But Kounellis» work is not about the artifice of traditional painting; rather, its strict formality is railing against the prevailing gestures, drip and daub tendencies of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel where the action, emotion, material, touch and will of the artist is inextricably interwoven within both the medium and the form.

In Europe, a new art movement known as Art Informel emerged during the late 1940s.

In any event, his signature style has made him one of the most recognizable 20th - century painters within the Art Informel idiom.

Long misunderstood abroad as a painting movement by virtue of the group's 1957 - 65 collaborations with French Informel critic Michel Tapié, the full spectrum and historic contexts of Gutai's highly innovative cross-genre approaches to art making within an international context have remained understudied.

Untitled Anxious Men seems to evoke Dubuffet's Art Informel due to the exceptional power with which the form of the head emerges — the doodle of a figure, completely out of scale and proportion — takes over the entire surface of the painting, as only works of Art Brut can do.

Initial Art Informel pictures were small - scale paintings and drawings on paper enhanced with watercolour.

Arnulf Rainer is regarded as a pioneer of Austrian Informel, a movement which moved away from geometric abstraction toward a more intuitive form of lyrical expression.

While he first approached it by applying heavy materials onto canvases, his way of structuring the pictorial space was also close to that of European Informel [1].

Following the exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg in the summer of 2016, this presentation provides an impressive insight into the artist's early work, in which the field of tension between Surrealism, American Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and European Informel reaches a climax.

TONY OURSLER MARGO LEAVIN GALLERY First Mike Kelley, then Jim Shaw and Raymond Pettibon have each taken a turn carrying the torch of the «Pop Informel» school, and each has seen his star rise...

Dubuffet influenced many contemporary and future groups and individual artists including the CoBrA group (1948 - 51), the Art Informel abstract expressionist movement (c.1945 - 60), the Tachisme style of painting, the Dutch painter Karel Appel (1921 - 2006), and Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945).

Silliness and sobriety trade off; a lumpy plasticine - on - wood Mona Lisa by the Austrian collective Gelitin hangs next to a reserved geometric abstraction by Sebastian Black, while Bianca Beck's vaguely Informel noodlings are next to David Shrigley's drawing of a Gumby - green torso.

«My generation lived through the academy of the Arte Informel, when it was triumphant, and at a certain point that expressiveness which was purely appearance and not form, was not enough,» Bonalumi, who thrice exhibited in the Venice Biennale, once said.

With his gestural abstract painting, K. O. Götz was the most important representative of the German Informel movement.

A household name there, the French - German Informel artist Wolfgang Schulze (1913 — 1951) long stood as proof that New York had not stolen the idea of modern art.

Further, his artistic style ranges from l'art informel, being influenced by artists such as Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet, to master colorists such as Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko.

They advocated the new beginning of art, as the opposite of the German Informel, considering the fact that, following the horrors of the Second World War, art need to return to a zero degree in order to overcome the violent and destructive experiences.

In addition, record prices were achieved for the contemporary painter Peter Doig, the Art Informel painter Pierre Soulages, and others.

Informel works by Lazzari and Scialoja are joined by rarely seen sculptures by Arman, Alberto Guzman, and Zoltan Kemeny, as well as decoupages by Gwyther Irwin and Rotella.

His earliest art had been in the gestural art informel style.

In addition, the encounter of Abstract Expressionism respectively European Informel paintings with photography illustrate the similar intellectual attitude expressed in the different media.

Often marked by sumptuous colour, its harmonious, painterly beauty may be contrasted with the harsh, angst - ridden and dissonant imagery produced by other Art Informel groups like COBRA, or recent Neo-Expressionists.

Following an initial period of influence from these movements, characterized by Korean informel, Tansaekhwa developed as a distinctly modern phenomenon, a blending of tradition and innovation exemplary of Korea's new presence on the world stage.