Tate glossary definition for art informel: French term describing a swathe of approaches to abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s which had in common an improvisatory methodology and highly gestural technique
An important source of this kind of painting was the
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been ‘on the verge of an entirely new and different kind
This Valentine’s Day we take a look at examples of love in Tate’s collection. Includes works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Alfred Stieglitz, Chris Killip, Rineke Dijkstra. Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ron Mueck.
with its light colours, and beautiful forms, is a kind
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films that show people painting road markings, a kind
something where you would pull the spectator in to this, kind
[BL] So what kind of symbol have we got behind us,
It creates a kind of time-release effect.
Signed top right. Published in Punch, 1 December 1954 Vol.CCXXVIII, p.692.
Portrait: The Airport’ [c.1954] © Reproduced by kind
‘Cover design for the 1952 Punch Almanack‘, Fougasse, 1952 – part of the digitised collection of the Tate Archive
1952 Punch Almanack 1952 © Reproduced by kind
Cover design incorporating cover of Punch, Vol.CCXII No.5540, 1947
Vol.CCXII No.5540, 1947 [c.1947] © Reproduced by kind
