Reflex was the organ for a group of Dutch painters who called themselves Experimentele Groep in Holland: Karel Appel, Constant (Nieuwenhuys), Corneille (Van Beverloo), Anton Rooskens, Eugène Brands, and Theo Wolvecamp.
The journal came out with only two issues, before the group (and the journal) became part of the newly formed Cobra (i.e. the Copenhagen-Brussels-Amsterdam avant-garde art movement … not the fictional terrorist organization from toy company Hasbro’s G.I. Joe universe).
Bibliography
- Huvenne, Paul, ed. Cobra: A Pictorial and Poetic Revolution. [Veurne]: Hannibal Books, 2022.