A sub-variant of the wider Art
Informel style - one of the most important modern art movements in Europe during the post-World War II period - Tachisme was a blotchy form of gestural painting, a European variant of «action - painting.»
The least strident sub-variant of the wider Art
Informel style - itself one of the most important European modern art movements of the post-World War II period - Lyrical Abstraction (or «Abstraction Lyrique») was a French style of 20th century painting in the manner of American Abstract Expressionism.
Tapies» chosen genre within the general Art
Informel style, was Matter Painting, which stressed the evocative power of unusual materials and also undermined the conventions of traditional fine art.
Not exact matches
These works gained him international recognition as one of the first painters to develop a new
style of postwar abstraction, and he was eventually associated — despite his rejection of labels — with such movements as tachisme, art
informel, and action painting.
Graduating from the oil painting department of the Seoul National University in 1956, Chung first worked in the then - prevalent
style of Korean
informel.
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.
Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant
style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting:
Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional
Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans
His technique shows some influence of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, as well as the more subtle European
style of Art
Informel, the more gestural French
style of Tachisme, and the softer Lyrical Abstraction.
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.
Her early art
informel —
style paintings quickly yielded to work that indexed the city's emergent Pop aesthetic, grafting its concerns with high - tech materials, synthetic color, and transfer techniques such as silk - screening and stenciling onto her commitment to militant feminism.
The art of Enrico Castellani was always deeply influenced by the
styles of his fellow artists, who had also decided to go against the dominant streams of Surrealism,
Informel and Abstract Expressionism, and to seek an infinite, minimalist form of expression.
Curiously, the same degree of fragmentation was occurring in Europe: the main movement Art
Informel, which corresponded to Abstract Expressionism, comprised numerous different
styles and tendencies, such as Tachisme, Art Non Figuratif, Abstraction Lyrique, and others.
In any event, his signature
style has made him one of the most recognizable 20th - century painters within the Art
Informel idiom.
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.
«Theatre de Gerard Philipe» (1975) Unterlindenmuseum, Colmar Art
Informel -
style oil painting by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908 - 92)
In Europe, the answer was Art
Informel, which was an umbrella term for a new
style of formless abstract painting.
The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art
Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic -
style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).
A similar type of fragmentation was occurring in Europe: the main abstract expressionist movement Art
Informel, broke up into numerous different
styles and tendencies, such as Tachisme, Art Non Figuratif, Abstraction Lyrique, and others.
This solo show gained him a reputation as one of the top young 20th - century painters, and a key exponent of Tachisme - the French gesturalist
style of Art
Informel - a European variant of abstract expressionism pioneered by the New York School.
After 1953 Tapies turned his attention to abstraction, influenced by Art
Informel, the European equivalent of American Abstract Expressionism, which became one of the most important
styles of post-war art in Europe.
Like the quieter
style of Tachisme, COBRA was a theoretical (if not always visible) variant of Art
Informel.
Hans Hartung was an established German artist mostly known for his gestural abstract
style and contributions to the European Art
Informel movement.
His
style is often linked to Art
Informel or «unformed art,» a European variation during the rise of Abstract Expressionism.
His early paintings were influenced by the Art
Informel movement and the Tachisme
style, as well as Americans like Jackson Pollock (1912 - 66), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97) and Mark Rothko (1903 - 70).
Europe's answer to the New York school of abstract expressionist painting was Art
Informel, a movement that was - like its American counterpart - a rather general umbrella term for a new
style of abstract painting which did not have any intellectual baggage or methodology.
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.
Wols helped to pioneer the French
style of abstraction known as Art
Informel, or Tachism, alongside the likes of Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Roberto Matta, Mathieu and Henri Michaux.
Popular during the late 1940s and 1950s, this
style of abstract art is part of (and to this extent synonymous with) the broader movement of Art
Informel: the only difference is that Tachisme is focused exclusively on the type of expressive gesture used by the artist.
Closely related to tachisme is Lyrical Abstraction, a softer type of abstract painting, that eliminated some of the more subjective elements of Art
Informel - a
style exemplified by Nicolas de Stael (1914 - 1955), Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 - 2002) and the colourist Patrick Heron (1920 - 99).
Pierre Soulages (b. 1919) Abstract painter Associated with Tachisme
Style of Art
Informel.
A key member of the Art
Informel movement (the European variant of Abstract Expressionism), he was associated initially with the Lyrical Abstraction wing, before becoming more calligraphic in
style, not unlike the painting of Pierre Soulages (b. 1919).
Those painters who have followed his example in France, under the general banner of art
informel or the specifically gestural
style of tachisme, and have adopted his formal devices and scale, are unwilling or unable to pursue the more radical implications of his art.
Tachisme Characteristics of Art
Informel,
Style of European Abstract Expressionism.
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.