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CoBrA

CoBrA (or CoBrA) was a European avant-garde movement active from 1949 to 1952 The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A)CoBrA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret on the 8th November 1948 in the Cafi Notre-Dame, Paris[1], with the signing of a manifesto, 'La Cause itait Entendue (The Case was Heard), drawn up by Dotremont

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Formed with a unifying doctrine of complete freedom of colour and form, as well as antipathy towards surrealism, the artists also shared an interest in Marxism as well as modernismTheir working method was based on spontaneity and experiment, and they drew their inspiration in particular from children's drawings, from primitive art forms and from the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miro[1]Coming together as an amalgamation of the Dutch group Reflex, the Danish group Hist and the Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group, the group only lasted a few years but managed to achieve a number of objectives in that time; the periodical CoBrA, a series of collaborations between various members called Peintures-Mot and two large-scale exhibitions


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