COBRA movement

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The COBRA movement was a post-World War II European avant-garde art collective known for its spontaneous, expressive, and often abstract works that rejected traditional artistic conventions.

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instanceOf art movement
artist collective
avant-garde movement
artisticStyle abstract art
art brut–influenced
expressionism
characteristic bold colors
childlike imagery
rejection of academic art conventions
spontaneous painting
countryOfOrigin Belgium
Denmark
Netherlands
dateOfFirstExhibition 1949
dissolved 1951
field painting
poetry
printmaking
theory of art
foundedBy Asger Jorn
Christian Dotremont
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Corneille
Joseph Noiret
Karel Appel
hasMotto Experiment, spontaneity, and collaboration
hasPart Surrealist Group in Brussels
surface form: Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group

Danish experimental group Høst
Dutch group Reflex
inception 1948
influenced European postwar abstract art
neo-expressionism
influencedBy Surrealism
children's drawings
folk art
primitive art
locationOfFirstExhibition Stedelijk Museum
surface form: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
movementGoal to create a collective experimental art
to oppose bourgeois culture and traditional aesthetics
namedAfter Amsterdam
Brussels, Belgium
surface form: Brussels

Copenhagen
notableMember Asger Jorn
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Christian Dotremont
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Corneille
Karel Appel
Lucebert
Pierre Alechinsky
publishedIn magazine Cobra

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Stedelijk Museum significantCollection COBRA movement