Tachisme

Tachisme. *Action painting
Taeuber-Arp Sophie (1889-1943). Swiss painter and designer, member of the Zurich *Dada group and the Ccrclc et Carre and * Abstraction-Creation groups; wife of *Arp.

Tachisme: Art up-to-date, you merely let the paint do all the work. Splashing, sprinkling and riding over it with bicycles are the most popular forms.
Tint: A light hue of color.

Tachisme
Tachisme derived from the French word tache - stain, was a French style of abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to Abstract Expressionsim.

Tachisme
term coined in 1952 by the French critic Michel Tapie, for the technique of painting in irregular dabs (taches or spots) and in an apparently haphazard manner.
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Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache - stain) was a French style of abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism.

Main articles: Tachisme, Art Informel, and School of Paris
Lyrical Abstraction is either of two related but distinctly separate trends in Post-war Modernist painting, and a third definition is the usage as a descriptive term.

Also Known As: tachisme
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Abstract Expressionism preceded Tachisme, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Neo-expressionism, ...

All the art movements of the 1960s (Tachisme, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Neo-expressionism) would be influenced by Abstract Expressionism.

Lyrical Abstraction is a French style of abstract painting current in the 1945 -1960. Very close to Art Informel, presents the European equivalent to Abstract Expressionism. The name Tachisme is sometimes used to describe the style.

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