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Imagined as the expression of a more humanistic, spiritual quest that began simultaneously in europe and the united States after World War II, the concept of Informalism refers to the unformed or shapeless; it’s most often related to a spontaneous gesture or new technique rather than to any preconceived idea. The term, coined in 1952 by art critic Michel Tapié in an essay entitled “Un Art Autre” (‘Art of Another Kind’), quickly became popular as a style that embraces the subjective and expressive, refusing the intellectual and or geometric compositions found in Cubism and Abstract Art. Works …