The oeuvre of painter, writer, and poet Henri Michaux is commonly associated with informal art. This term encompasses post-war abstract art movements in which artists explored and employed their “pure”, intuitive, and spontaneous creative impulses. During his travels through Asia, Michaux was introduced to Eastern culture, sparking his interest in calligraphy and his fondness for Indian ink. To capture what words could not express, the poet turned to painting. A breakthrough came when, in 1948, a few years after the tragic death of his wife, he turned to hallucinogenic substances. In 1978, Henri Michaux received prestigious retrospective exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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