By Andrew Bay, UK
Few artistic schools from the post WWII era, turned out to be as radical as the CoBrA movement was in its heyday. Up until 1946 when CoBrA came to the fore, Minimalism was still the dominant Art movement in Europe and America. Its general trend had been to make the unnamed, the multidimensional, the insubstantial elements in a work of art, as important as the physical, raw materials of the work. The core idea was self-explanatory: the more layers you remove, the closer you get to the nucleus of the work.
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Botch, Blotch and Splotch: The Exuberant Maelstrom of the Co...
By Andrew Bay, UK
Few artistic schools from the post WWII era, turned out to be as radical as the CoBrA movement was in its heyday. Up until 1946 when CoBrA came to the fore, Minimalism was still the dominant Ar
