CoBrA

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European art movement art movement avant-garde movement

CoBrA was an avant-garde European art movement (1948–1951) known for its spontaneous, expressive, and often abstract painting style influenced by folk art, children’s drawings, and primitivism.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
CoBrA movement	5
CoBrA group	3
COBRA art movement	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	European art movement ⓘ art movement ⓘ avant-garde movement ⓘ
characteristic	expressive style ⓘ often abstract forms ⓘ spontaneous painting ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ
dissolved	1951 ⓘ
foundedBy	Asger Jorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Christian Dotremont NERFINISHED ⓘ Constant Nieuwenhuys NERFINISHED ⓘ Corneille NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Noiret NERFINISHED ⓘ Karel Appel NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	painting ⓘ poetry ⓘ printmaking ⓘ
hasMember	Asger Jorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Christian Dotremont NERFINISHED ⓘ Constant Nieuwenhuys NERFINISHED ⓘ Corneille NERFINISHED ⓘ Eugène Brands NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugo Claus NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Noiret NERFINISHED ⓘ Karel Appel NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucebert NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre Alechinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMotto	spontaneity and experimentation in art ⓘ
hasPublication	CoBrA magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ
inception	1948 ⓘ
influenced	European postwar abstract art ⓘ neo-expressionism NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy	children’s drawings ⓘ folk art ⓘ primitivism ⓘ
languageUsed	Danish ⓘ Dutch ⓘ French ⓘ
locationOfFormation	Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	abstract art ⓘ art brut NERFINISHED ⓘ expressionism ⓘ
namedAfter	Amsterdam NERFINISHED ⓘ Brussels NERFINISHED ⓘ Copenhagen NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposedTo	academic art traditions ⓘ formalism in art ⓘ
timePeriod	post–World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (18)

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Karel Appel → movement → CoBrA ⓘ

Karel Appel → coFounded → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA movement

Karel Appel → memberOf → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA group

Asger Jorn → movement → CoBrA ⓘ

Asger Jorn → memberOf → CoBrA ⓘ

Lucebert → notableFor → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: COBRA art movement

Carl-Henning Pedersen → movement → CoBrA ⓘ

Carl-Henning Pedersen → memberOf → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA movement

Christian Dotremont → movement → CoBrA ⓘ

Christian Dotremont → coFounded → CoBrA ⓘ

Christian Dotremont → memberOf → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA group

Cobra Museum of Modern Art → focusesOn → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA movement

Cobra Museum of Modern Art → dedicatedTo → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA movement

Cobra Museum of Modern Art → namedAfter → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA movement

Cobra Museum of Modern Art → movementRepresented → CoBrA ⓘ

Cobra Museum of Modern Art → artMovementCoverage → CoBrA ⓘ

Pierre Alechinsky → movement → CoBrA ⓘ

Pierre Alechinsky → memberOf → CoBrA ⓘ

this entity surface form: CoBrA group