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1. 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