Abstract

Japan experienced an unceasing furor of the art Informel movement in the late fifties. Around the same time, in Korea, pictorial art works of the Informel style caught the spirit of then generation. The "Informel" movement in Korea was largely different from that seen in Japan in that the Informel movement in Korea had little direct contact with French Informel movement, while in Japan, a series of articles on the Informel movement and art works were introduced to the public and even Michel Tapie who originally pronounced the philosophy of Informel visited Japan. Korea developed their own interpretation of Informel in total uniqueness, and as a result, succeeded in freeing themselves from the long-established framework of the world of fine art which had been full of restraints. Korean art circle interpreted Informel in the context of Korean culture, throw off the limitations of the world of art, and at the same time, won internationality and contemporaneousness, and finally, took off for the new realm of contemporary art