Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1945
Birth of Art Informel in France
Responding to the horrors of WWII, European artists rejected the artistic traditions of figurative and geometric work in favor of anti-compositional forms and gestural techniques. Along with the movement’s stylistic relative in North America, Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel espoused spontaneity and expression.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
Movements
Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel
Filed under
- Ideas
- Abstract Expressionism, abstraction, Art Informel, gestural abstraction, spontaneity, World War II
- Places
- Europe, France, North America
Echoes across time
- 1973 · France Hosts International Computer Art Events
- 1978 · Arts et Informatique organized by the Swedish Cultural Centre in Paris
- 1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris
Le Random editorials
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Chapter 2’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify