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What ideas did the Informel movement express in 1950s Korean art?
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Dragon jar, porcelain with iron-painted decoration under clear glaze, Korea, mid-17th century; in the Brooklyn Museum, New York. 31.4 × 37.1 cm. Diameter at mouth 12 cm. Diameter at base 9.5 cm.
In the mid-1950s, a group of young Korean artists established the Informel movement, which served as a reaction to the prevailing artistic climate. This movement expressed a strong affinity for the spontaneity and subjective expression found in contemporary Western abstract art.1