Word: movement
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Wols, the founder of the Informel movement, was almost exclusively known as a painter. Applying paint with fingers or knives, or directly from the tube, Wols created oils that confront the viewer head-on with their explosive colors and textured surfaces...
...independently. She divides his photographs into four discrete but contingent sections: portraits, abstractions, fashion photographs and still lives. As the works were taken during his ten-year residence in France between 1932 and 1942, they bear a strong stylistic affinity to each other. Yet the works display Wols's movement from germinal Bauhaus sterility and Surrealist tomfoolery to a style ultimately unique both from his contemporaries and from his later works on canvas...
...Countless cigarettes and a smoke machine created a nearly impenetrable haze in which Advocate intellectuals and local hipsters writhed, bopped and boogied down. The frenetic music inspired all dimensions of dance and movement, from eager couples bumping and grinding to solitary enthusiasts thrashing in ecstatic abandon. And those who did not dance reclined on couches or leaned against the walls, absorbing the room's thick energy...
Wols, the founder of the Informal movement, was almost exclusively known as a painter. Applying paint with fingers or knives, or directly from the tube, Wols created oils that confront the viewer head-on with their explosive colors and textured surfaces...
...independently. She divides his photographs into four discrete but contingent sections: portraits, abstractions, fashion photographs and still lives. As the works were taken during his ten-year residence in France between 1932 and 1942, they bear a strong stylistic affinity to each other. Yet the works display Wols's movement from germinal Bauhaus sterility and Surrealist tomfoolery to a style ultimately unique both from his contemporaries and from his later works on canvas...