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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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