Below is a glossary article post in the category A which discusses the explanation of the meaning, definition and meaning of the acronym, term, jargon, or termonology of Art Informel based on summaries from various types of sources (references) that are relevant, related, and trustworthy.
Understanding Art Informel
So, what is actually meant by Art Informel?
Art Informel is a French term that describes a number of approaches to painting abstracts in the 1940s and 1950s which have the same methodology for improvisation and very gesture techniques.
Explanation of Art Informel
This term refers to many abstract painting styles that are very common, even dominant, in the 1940s and 1950s, including tendencies such as takme, material paintings, and lyrical abstractions. This mainly refers to European art, but also embraces American abstract expressionism. An important source of this type of painting is the doctrine of surrealis about automaticism. This term is used by French critic Michel but in his 1952 Un Art Autre book to describe the same type of art -the same has that they are based on very informal procedures and often become gestural. Buté see this art as a ‘other person’ because it appears to him as a total rest with tradition.
An exhibition titled PBB Art Autre was held in Paris in the same year as the Book Tapié and including Karel Appel, Alberto Burri, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Georges Mathieu, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Wols. Other key characters are Henri Michaux, Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages. The term Art Autre, from the title of the book but is also used for this art, but informel art seems to have appeared as a preferred name.
Moreover, as we have seen above, this term is one of a collection of dictionaries, acronyms, terms, jargon, or terminology in the field of arts that begins with an alphabet or prefix A, as well as terms associated with A.
Meaning of Art Informel in the English, Indonesian (Including Javanese and Sundanese), and Malaysian Translation Dictionary
Apart from discussing the meaning and discussion of the definition, to deepen it further, here we also need to know what the word means in the English, Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese) translation dictionaries, as well as Malaysia (Malay).
For easy understanding, in this glossary post, we will explain it in the form of a list of translations of terms from various types of languages as follows:
- English; Terminology = Art Informel.
- Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese translations); Terminology = Informel seni (Indonesian), Seni Informel (Java), and Seni informél in Sundanese.
- Malaysian; Terminology = Informel seni.
Closing
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Footnotes
This glossary post was created by referring to the conclusions of the meaning of definitions from various authoritative relevant references such as Wikipedia, Britannica and several other sources such as MoMA, Tate, ModernArts, and so on. This word is one of a collection of terminology in the field of Art which begins with the alphabet or prefix A. This article wasupdated in Jan of 2026.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=art-informel
- https://www.britannica.com/search?query=art-informel
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