Publication LE GESTE ET LA MATIÈRE, UNE ABSTRACTION “AUTRE”, PARIS 1945-1965
LE GESTE ET LA MATIÈRE, UNE ABSTRACTION “AUTRE”, PARIS 1945-1965
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou is holding an exhibition at the Fondation Clément on abstract non-geometric painting, as it developed in Paris after the Second World War.
Known, since that era, by turns as “informal”, “lyrical”, “tachist”, “gestural” or “matterist”, this abstraction, which cannot be defined by one homogenous movement, translates the artists’ desire to “start from scratch” after the dark years of the war. Beyond the diversity of artistic propositions, this form of painting, which puts both realism and rationalism on trial, is characterised by an instinctive practice and a direct connection with the material. In the 1950s, this “other art” had a wide audience in France and abroad, mainly due to the work of enlightened critics and enterprising gallerists who emerged from the ferment of Liberation-era Paris.
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MOVEMENT AND MATTER AN "OTHER" ABSTRACTION, 1945-1965
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou held an exhibition at the Fondation Clément on abstract non-geometric painting, as it developed in Paris after the Second World War.
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