Matter painting

Matter painting (French: Haute Pâte, lit.

'thick paste') also known as Matterism refers to a style of painting that emphasizes the material qualities of paint through heavy impasto.

The style marked a return to impulses characteristic of abstract expressionism.

[1][2] Matterism first emerged in Paris in the 1940s in the work of Jean Dubuffet and Jean Fautrier.

The style reached widespread popularity in the 1950s.