Charlie Hewitt

"A" Signed Abstract Woodblock Print by Charlie Hewitt

circa 1995

Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - ) Title: Untitled - J Year: circa 1985 Medium: Woodblock, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 100 Size: 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)

Artist: Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - ) Title: Untitled - B Medium: Woodblock, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 100 Size: 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)

Jean Miotte - Original Signed Etching 1994 Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: /60 From Près du mur

Jean Miotte - Original Etching 1998 Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm Edition: /40 From La Déchirure Jean Miotte, 1926 - 2016 Miotte came of artistic age in the decade after World War II when non-figurative gestural abstraction was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as the contemporary artistic language. The term, "L'Art Informel," was coined by the French critic, Michel Tapi, to connote "without form." The negation of traditional form, a radical break from established notions of order and composition, was particularly suited to a cultural environment born out of the circumstances of post war Europe where abuse of morals and fascist ideology had led to such horror and destruction. While Informel is often regarded as the European equivalent of Abstract Expressionism, it is distinguished from its American counterpart, by a loss of faith in progress and the collective possibilities of an avant garde. Rather the artists who came to be grouped as Informel, Jean Miotte, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Emil Schumacher...