If Post-painterly abstraction sounds complicated, try reading about concurrent abstract expressionist movements in Europe, such as Art Informel (1940s, 1950s),
its sub-variants Tachisme (late 1940s, 1950s) Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (1948 - 51).
Not exact matches
In addition to
Tachisme, another
sub-variant of Art Informel was Matter Painting.
Its various manifestations and
sub-variants included
Tachisme, «Art Autre», Gesture Painting, Lyrical Abstraction, and Matter art.
Meanwhile, parallel movements in Western Europe were appearing under various titles, such as Art Informel (c.1945 - 60), along with
sub-variants such as Lyrical Abstraction (late 1940s, 1950s),
Tachisme (c.1945 - 60) and the COBRA group (1948 - 51).
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.»