{{short description|Painting technique}} [[File:Tête d’otage No. 14 (Head of a Hostage No. 14).jpg|thumb|Tête d’otage No. 14 (Head of a Hostage No. 14, 1944) by Jean Fautrier]] '''Matter painting''' ({{Langx|fr|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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFVFBgAAQBAJ&q=%22Haute+P%C3%A2te%22&pg=PA224|title=The Orchestration of the Arts — A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers: The Vibrating Interplay of Sound, Color, Image, Gesture, Movement, Rhythm, Fragrance, Word, Touch|last=Kronegger|first=M.|date=2013-03-09|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9789401734110|pages=224|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty/documents/fautrier_guide.pdf|title=Les Otages|website=.marquette.edu/|access-date=March 1, 2019}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwf6RVGYLjgC|title=A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art|last1=Chilvers|first1=Ian|last2=Glaves-Smith|first2=John|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199239658|pages=449|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489963|website=www.metmuseum.org|title=Jean Paulhan|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>
== See also ==
== References == {{Reflist}}<br /> Category:French art movements Category:Painting techniques Category:Abstract expressionism
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