• Tachisme was a reaction to Cubism and is characterized by spontaneous brushwork, drips and blobs of paint straight from the tube, and sometimes scribbling reminiscent of calligraphy.
• which abandoned geometric abstraction in favour of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to action painting.
• He is best known for the paintings in his Hostages series, inspired by his horror at the brutality and suffering of the Second World War. These strange paintings feature layer upon layer of heavy paint creating a central image that is abstract but suggests a decaying human head. The pale powdery colours evoke death, but the delicacy of the handling gives them a mysterious ambivalence.

p. 342/ p. 374 - Jean Dubuffet.  La Metafisyx 1950
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• Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut (meaning "raw art," oftentimes referred to as ‘outsider art’) for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms, such as art by psychiatric patients, prisoners, and children.
• Many of Dubuffet's works are painted in oil paint using an impasto thickened by materials such as sand, tar and straw, giving the work an unusually textured surface. From 1962 he produced a series of works in which he limited himself to the colours red, white, black, and blue. Towards the end of the 1960s he turned increasingly to sculpture, producing works in polystyrene which he then painted with vinyl paint.

Jackson Pollock  One (Number 31),  1950 [image]

• action painting
• animal form
• dripping paint over
• artist knows the true meaning

• return to humanization
• uses actual form
• still abstract but creates an gestalt feel

p. 369/ p. 407  - Robert Rauschenberg with John Cage  Automobile Tire Print 1953
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• eastern style print
• ink on paper
• almost like the gutai
• not using conventional tools to create an artwork
• tire tracks

• taking someones artwork and making it your own

• anti-form
• balance is out of form

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p. 372/ p. 410  - Cy Twombly Free Wheeler 1955

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• taking ones objects as your own
• graffiti

• formless painting
• abstract
• animalistic
• crouching down closer to the ground
• drip painting

• using feet to create a painting
• gutai
• using ones own body as a tool

p. 375/ p. 413  - Kazuo Shiraga  Challenge to the Mud 1955
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• gutai work
• using feet and body to create a picture

• gutai
• using his body to run through the canvas
• action painting
• more important is the action then the complete work
• installation art

p. 378/ p. 416 – Lygia Clark Animal 1960

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• animal style of form
• almost gestalt
• using ones mind to form an animal

• wall of barrels
• of the moment installation
• the cause and action
• using everyday items to create an act

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• installation art
• art moved in the moment
• turned into destruction
• fals apart

• early decollage

• Dealing with art is the act of using preforming the art without using technical tools such as paintbrushes.

• Anyone can do art

• Art is shown not through the use of what is the normal way but of how the person interprets it.

• Through the use of the mind, art is created through repition and the mind's own power to complete the object, such as the use of magic lanterns or the coin on the string.

• creating art without conventional use such as paintings drawings 
• Can be used to create an abstraction or the use of everyday objects such as the toilet

•  Japanese avant-garde group of art
• experimented enthusiastically not only on paintings but also with various activities like open-air or staged events which anticipated today's installation or performance elements
• Using legs or installing paper to run through
• art of the moment and of the creation

Kitsch (chapter 1946; chapter 1959a; the term is mentioned on p. 441 & p. 686;)

• Art used in a way to be mass produced to create cultural icons.
• often though to be barbaric and brash
• slapped together piece of work

Art Brut (chapter 1946)

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• raw or tough art
• mainly used with artists against the mainstream

Cold War (chapter 1959c)

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• futuristic art
• use of art as more metal

• Paintings and art creations which focuses more on the creation then the actual finished product
• drip painting
• constructed objects

Proto-conceptual (chapter 1960a)

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• art which focuses more on the idea of the art

Spectacle culture (chapter 1960a)

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• re cycled strageties of Avante garde such as abstracts pop art

Aleatory (chapter 1953)

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• Use of chance in the process of creation, of the moment,
• subway guy

• disregards the usual setup of art

Indexical imprint versus the Autographic mark (chapter 1953)

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