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The Cobra art movement's ideology, which emerged after World War II, has been described fittingly by Julien Michel Leiris. Michel Leiris was one of France's great writers and a friend of Francis Bacon, Giacometti, and Picasso. He said: The human being in Picasso's art is the man of today from a bleeding reality in a ragged age and a reality that befits a ragged painting.
The Cobra artist Lucebert works with a ragged reality, as did many of his friends in the movement, which is now part of history. Cobra arose as a reaction to World War II and a Europe torn to pieces. Lucebert …