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DOI Artikel:Piotrowski, Piotr: Totalitarianism and Modernism: the "thaw" and informel painting in central Europe, 1955 - 1965
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28185#0140
PIOTR PIOTROWSKI
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8. Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Formy zrodzone, 1957 [National Muséum in Warsaw]
direction. In Central Europe terms such as informel were not very pré-
cisé. What is relevant, is the character of the art inspired by the informel
and its évolution. Following this process, one can realize - to quote
another Porçbski’s remark - that it favored the “expérience of matter,
rather than gesture,”21 foregrounding the aesthetic values typical of the
art of the matter, rather than the philosophical ones related to the clas-
sic, particularly French, painting of gesture, not to mention political
overtones characteristic of the COBRA group. That aestheticization of
the informel by the “materialization” of canvas turned out quite sympto-
matic and historically signifîcant.
21
Czerni, 105.
138
8. Teresa Tyszkiewicz, Formy zrodzone, 1957 [National Muséum in Warsaw]
direction. In Central Europe terms such as informel were not very pré-
cisé. What is relevant, is the character of the art inspired by the informel
and its évolution. Following this process, one can realize - to quote
another Porçbski’s remark - that it favored the “expérience of matter,
rather than gesture,”21 foregrounding the aesthetic values typical of the
art of the matter, rather than the philosophical ones related to the clas-
sic, particularly French, painting of gesture, not to mention political
overtones characteristic of the COBRA group. That aestheticization of
the informel by the “materialization” of canvas turned out quite sympto-
matic and historically signifîcant.
21
Czerni, 105.