Cobra (CoBrA)

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Cobra (CoBrA)

Art direction, born in 1948 and disbanded in 1951. It arose as a reaction to the dissensions between abstraction and figurativom.

Group name - an acronym for Copenhagen - Brussels - Amsterdam - to name the cities where there were painters - participants of direction: Christian Dotremon (Christian Dotremont), Jacques Calonne (Jacques Calonne), Joseph Nuare (Joseph Noiret), Asger Norn (Asger Jorn) Karel Appel (Karel Appel), Constant (Constant), Corneille (Corneille), Pierre Alechinsky (Pierre Alechinsky), Pol Bury (Pol Bury), Henri Herup (Henry Heerup), Egill Jacobsen (Egill Jacobsen), Karl Hennig Pedersen (Carl-Henning Pedersen), Jacques Doucet (Jacques Doucet), Jean-Michel Atlan (Jean-Michel Atlan).

Destination focussed on the North European folk art, primitive art, children's drawings, expressionism and surrealist automatism. Historically associated with surrealism - and, accordingly, with the communist movement - artists group Cobra broke with communism when the Communists decided to support the socialist realism. Netherlands architect Aldo van Eyck (Aldo vazn Eyck) was the main stage designer major group exhibitions.

The ideological roots

• The hostile attitude to cultural parizianotsentrizmu (intolerance André Breton).
• Denial artistic zhdanovstva, which followed the manual France; gap with the magazine "The French alphabet» (Les lettres françaises).
• An implicit rebuke of Surrealism: Surrealist paintings are almost never used automatic writing (except for Joan Miro), spontaneity Surrealists almost always been an intellectual nature, not physical.
• Lively life surrealism in Belgium, many different, disagree with each other groups, dissent, quarrel ...
• Personal role Christian Dotremona and Asger Jorn, who became the organizers of direction.
• Interest in primitive art (the art of the Vikings, Oriental calligraphy, preistoricheskomu, medieval art), a naive and folk art (paintings of children, creativity, mental); antielitarnye mood: the art can engage everyone, not just the "creators".
• The influence of French philosopher Gaston Basheryara: psychoanalysis and the creative imagination, the fundamental elements (earth, water, fire).

Features

• The freedom and spontaneity; rejection of theorizing
• Search primitivism and Energy
• The refusal of specialization: works created by several artists together
• The quest for internationalization

Key artists

Denmark

Asger Jorn (Asger Jorn) 3.03.1914-1.05.1973

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Henry Herup (Henry Heerup) 1907-1993

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Karl Hennig Pedersen (Carl-Henning Pedersen) 23.09.1913-20.02.2007

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