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Unknown Author, CoBrA, A Short
Animated History
2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkzoHEsY6f4
Cobra was a post-World War II European avant-
garde movement. The name was derived from the
initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen,
Brussels, and Amsterdam. Copenhagen is the head,
Brussels is the body, and Amsterdam is the tail of
the Cobra.
The group's founders included Asger Jorn, the
Dutch painter Constant, the Belgian poet Christian
Dotremont and the painters Pierre Alechinsky,
Karel Appel, Corneille and Carl-Henning Pedersen.
Later on the group was expanded substantially.
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In a Europe devastated by war, artists were eager
to join forces, pool their thoughts and react to the
inhumanity of a civilization based on reason and
science. Cobra had a distinctive political and
social dimension based on a criticism of the Cold
War society of their day.
Cobra was formed from an amalgamation of the
Dutch group Reflex, the Danish group Host and the
Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group. Their
fundamental values were nonconformity and
spontaneity. Their inspiration was children's
drawings, the alienated and folk art, motifs from
Nordic mythology, Marxism.
They rejected erudite art and all official art
events. They sought to express combination of the
Surrealist unconscious with the romantic forces of
nature but unlike the former group they felt an
abstract idiom better served that purpose. They
were primary distinguished by a
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semiabstract expressive paintings style with
brilliant color, violent brushwork, and distorted
human figures.
Cobra was a milestone in the development of
European Abstract Expressionism and was very
similar to American Action Painting.
More at:
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/cobra.
htm
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John Casey, Handy Man
2009
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John Casey, Sleeper Keeper
2010
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John Casey, Shaker
2009
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John Casey, Three Up
2009
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John Casey, Airborne
2009
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John Casey, Eruption
2009
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John Casey, Flapper
2010
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John Casey, House Pet
2010
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John Casey, Paranoid
2010
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John Casey, Swinger
2010
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