Art Informel
アンフォルメル / 1945–1960 / Style / Gestural Abstraction
A postwar European abstraction that refused both geometric composition and figuration, making the surface out of matter and the traces of the act itself. Thickly piled paint, scratches, stains and tears present a state before form. The source of all design that pushes the physicality of material to the front.
Traces of impasto and scratching / Stains that never settle into form / A range of earth and ash tones / Tears and exposure of the support
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Texture-led art direction for craft, ceramics or fashion houses · Cover art and interiors where raw matter carries the emotion
- Type
- Minimal, quiet type kept clear of the matter, or scratched crudely into it
- Composition
- Centreless fields of material incident; composition by density, not by figure
- Material
- Impasto, plaster and tar in earth and ash tones; scraped, stained and torn supports
- Caution
- Avoid faking the texture with clean digital filters—the style lives on real material resistance, and simulated grunge reads instantly as decor.
- Further study
- The naming by Michel Tapié / The difference from American Abstract Expressionism / The exchange with the Gutai group