In both America and Europe, around the middle of the century a series of new tendencies in painting emerged -- such as tachism, action painting and abstract expressionism -- that were together labeled "informal art." Despite the divergent and at times contradictory intentions of these movements, today an unanswered question remains: whether it is possible to discover some common thread that provides a linkage between artists whom we would normally consider to be so different: Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet; Sam Francis ...
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In both America and Europe, around the middle of the century a series of new tendencies in painting emerged -- such as tachism, action painting and abstract expressionism -- that were together labeled "informal art." Despite the divergent and at times contradictory intentions of these movements, today an unanswered question remains: whether it is possible to discover some common thread that provides a linkage between artists whom we would normally consider to be so different: Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet; Sam Francis and Hans Hoffman; and Gerhard Hoehme and Emil Schumacher.
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