CoBrA
コブラ / 1948–1951 / Style / International Avant-garde
The postwar avant-garde linking Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam: the directness of children's drawing and folk art, rough-brushed creatures in primary color — distrust of refinement made an international style.
The directness of children's drawing / Rough-brushed creatures / Colliding primaries / The refusal of planning
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Karel Appel / Asger Jorn / the journal Cobra