Sentences with phrase «european tachisme»

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Castellani also disliked Abstract Expressionism (and its European variant, Tachisme) on the grounds that it was too closely bound up with subjective gesture and a painter's emotional state.

European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered as a component of (Tachisme) when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Guéguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art à Paris 1945 — 1966, and American Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969.

Also in Europe, Art brut, [17] and Lyrical Abstraction or Tachisme (the European equivalent to Abstract expressionism) took hold of the newest generation.

Composition abstraite (1969) is measured yet chaotic — a sheen of impurity spreads over its irregular, dimly - pigmented shapes, though Orange, jaune et vert (1964) truly exudes the rough - round - the - edges expressionism that earned Tachisme, a catch - all term for pre - and post-war non-geometric French abstraction, its reputation as the European equivalent of New York's Abstract Expressionism.

With less structured approaches and more spontaneous actions, Jackson Pollock created splatters, [5] and European artists, associated with Tachisme, employed fortuitous applications of paint in their non-geometric abstractions.

[1] It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism, [2] although there are stylistic differences (American abstract expressionism tended to be more «aggressively raw» than tachisme).

His technique shows some influence of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, as well as the more subtle European style of Art Informel, the more gestural French style of Tachisme, and the softer Lyrical Abstraction.

Given wide currency in Michel Tapie's book «Un autre art», Tachisme initially developed independently of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, and continued to be essentially a French phenomenon, although it is commonly used as a generic label for European Abstract Expressionism.

In drawings done as a student, we can see Schönebeck developing his form, from pleasant landscape - based pen marks to abstract fields - edgier riffs on Tachisme, the then - popular European version of Ab - Ex.

Like Tachisme, the COBRA group was closely related to the gesturalist wing of the broader European abstract expressionist school known as Art Informel, and derives its style from the early expressionist movement in Germany.

In Europe, gesturalism was practised in the Art Informel movement (the European version of Abstract Expressionism) by artists like Georges Mathieu and Wols, by exponents of Tachisme, and by Asger Jorn (1914 - 73) and Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) of the COBRA group.

This solo show gained him a reputation as one of the top young 20th - century painters, and a key exponent of Tachisme - the French gesturalist style of Art Informel - a European variant of abstract expressionism pioneered by the New York School.

Dubuffet, whose work is most closely tied to the tachisme and art informel movements, was highly involved in the European avant - garde art world and an active contributor to conversations about the role and importance of art after the horrors of World War II.

Tachisme Characteristics of Art Informel, Style of European Abstract Expressionism.

The influence at the school leaned towards Art Informel (the European variant of American Abstract Expressionism), and its offshoot Tachisme.

A sub-variant of the wider Art Informel style - one of the most important modern art movements in Europe during the post-World War II period - Tachisme was a blotchy form of gestural painting, a European variant of «action - painting.»

It builds upon and freely quotes some of European abstraction's early efforts past Cubism (pre-1915 efforts of Kandinsky, Malevich, R. Delaunay, S. Delaunay, Kupka, Marc, Klee, others) and mid-century international developments that flourished under the names Art Informel, Tachisme, Abstract Expressionism, and others.

However, for those who do not wish to choose the doctrine Avray Wilson is proposing, the paintings offer the experience of aesthetically wonderful and accomplished explosions of colour and form vigorously displayed and art historically firmly categorised as the European form of American Action Painting known as «Tachisme».