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.
Not exact matches
Turning against the emotive, gesticular abstraction of
Tachisme and Art Informel, Staudt's predominantly grid -
like reliefs, composed of a restricted set...
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.
Like the quieter style of
Tachisme, COBRA was a theoretical (if not always visible) variant of Art Informel.
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).