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.
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art movement
ⓘ
artist collective ⓘ avant-garde movement ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
abstract art
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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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