Informalism

Informalism or Art Informel is a pictorial movement from the 1943–1950s,[1] that includes all the abstract and gestural tendencies that developed in France and the rest of Europe during the World War II, similar to American abstract expressionism started 1946.[2][3] Several distinguishing trends are identified within the movement such as lyrical abstraction, matter painting, New Paris School, tachisme and art brut. The French art critic Michel Tapié coined the term "art autre" (other art) in the homonymous book published in 1952 in relation to non-geometric abstract art.[3]

Jiménez-Balaguer

Pictorial practices

Within this tendency, each artist allows full freedom of expression to the unforeseen quality of materials (a taste for stains or chance) and randomness of gestures, thus rejecting drawing and control and the traditional conception of painting and its development that evolves from the idea to the completed work via sketches and projects. It’s an open work that a spectator can read freely. The pictorial adventure is completely new; instead of going from the meaning to constructing the corresponding signs, the artist begins with the making of signs and gives the corresponding meaning. In the works of Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer, the language of signs is further deconstructed, allowing for a universal interpretation of a private language. The contribution of music produced the art of musical informalism.

Plastic characteristics of this painting are: spontaneity of the gesture, automatism, expressive use of material, the nonexistence of preconceived ideas, the experience that the deed generates the idea, and the work is the place and the privileged moment whereby the artist discovers himself; it is the end of the reproduction of the object for the representation of the theme that becomes the end of the painting, with a sometime calligraphic aspect, referring to a Calligraphic Abstraction in relation to the works of Georges Mathieu, Hans Hartung, or Pierre Soulages.

Informalist painters

Enrico Accatino José Balmes Gracia Barrios Willi Baumeister Vasco Bendini Alberto Burri Mário Cesariny

Eduardo Chillida Jean Dubuffet[1] Jean Fautrier[4] Elsa Gramcko[5] Hans Hartung Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer Luigi Malice Georges Mathieu

Henri Michaux[1] Manolo Millares Lucio Muñoz Ernst Wilhelm Nay Georges Noël Serge Poliakoff Marie Raymond Jean-Paul Riopelle Pablo Serrano Pierre Soulages

Nicolas de Staël Antoni Tàpies[4] Emilio Vedova Wols Rodrigo Franzao[6]

See also

• Matterism

References

1. "Grandes Momentos del Arte - Ficha El informalismo europeo". www.artehistoria.jcyl.es. 2012-04-13. Archived from the original on 2012-04-13. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
2. Walker, John. (1992) "Art Informel". Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed., G.K. Hall, Boston, Mass. ISBN 978-0-81610-556-4 Archived December 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
3. "Art informel – Art Term". www.tate.org.uk. Tate. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
4. "Informalism, Abstract and Gestural Trends". types of art styles (in Spanish). 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
5. Ramírez, Mari Carmen (2018). Contesting Modernity, Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300236897.
6. "Rodrigo Franzão: Industrial strength stitching". textile art. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-10-07.