Informal art (French art informel) or Informel for short is a collective term for the styles of abstract (in the sense of non-geometric, non-objective) art in the European post-war years, which had its origins in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s.
The term Informel "does not denote a uniform style, but rather characterizes an artistic attitude that rejects the classical principle of form and composition as well as geometric abstraction."The "principle of formlessness" in the "field of tension between the dissolution of form and the development of form" is constitutive. The term summarizes various abstract movements in European post-war art. According to Rolf Wedewer, it encompasses "two different modes of expression - the gestural and the texturological".
It was named after the art critic Michel Tapié, who coined the name art informel for an exhibition at Studio Facchetti in Paris in November 1951 entitled Signifiants de l'informel. A short time later, in November 1952, Tapié's famous exhibition entitled Un art autre also took place at Studio Facchetti, in which almost all of the movement's important artists were represented. The term Tachism, coined by the art critic Pierre Guéguen, was also commonly used, especially in the early days.
Tachisme and Art Informel are often equated and are considered the European "counterpart" to American Abstract Expressionism, which developed separately from the European art style in the 1940s and emerged with the style variants of Action Painting and Color Field Painting; the Hard Edge style is also sometimes included.
Many artists of Art brut (raw art) and Outsider Art are closely related to Art Informel.
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Art brut (French for "raw art") is a collective term for self-taught art by amateurs, children, people with a mental illness or a mental disability and social outsiders, such as prison inmates, but also social misfits. The term was coined by the French painter Jean Dubuffet, who worked extensively with a naive and anti-academic aesthetic. Art brut refers to art in its raw state, so to speak - beyond established forms and trends. In the Anglo-American language area, the term outsider art is used instead, which is also becoming increasingly widespread in the German-speaking world. However, both terms are sometimes controversial.
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Nouvel Informel is a term that I am not the first to use. But I do have a concrete definition: Nouvel Informel is a hypothetical exhibition and a collective term for anti-academic art from the new millennium. In contrast to the original Informel, Nouvel Informel is no longer purely drawing, sculpture or painting, but primarily uses photography, videography and digital post-processing or digital tools.
I have developed my style of Nouvel Informel starting around 2010 when my extensive experiments began. My main tool is photography to create light drawings; using the surrounding lights while putting the camera and lens in motion during the time the photograph is being taken.
Using different superimposition techniques and other digital effects and filters I refine the photography further and create complex superimpositions which are mostly chaos driven compositions of multiple single Photographs.
This is the way how objective meets abstract.