Noun: Informel
- A French school of art originating in the 1950s and characterized by irregular dabs and splotches of colour applied haphazardly to the canvas; comparable to American abstract expressionism
"Around 1945 a number of European and American painters established a crucial phase in modern art known broadly as Art Informel";
- Art Informel
Type of: abstract art, abstractionism
Encyclopedia: Informel