Sentences with phrase «french tachisme»

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Tachisme refers to the French style of abstract painting current in the 1945 — 1960 period.

He has distanced himself from Tachisme, the French version of Abstract Expressionism, either because of the movement's willingness to slide over into figuration and overt expression — or simply because he dislikes categories.

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.

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.

According to Chilvers, the term tachisme «was first used in this sense in about 1951 (the French critics Charles Estienne and Pierre Guéguen have each been credited with coining it) and it was given wide currency by [French critic and painter] Michel Tapié in his book Un Art autre (1952).»

Galerie Perrotin will now represent the estate of Hans Hartung, the French artist associated with the Art Informel and Tachisme movements.

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.

The term Tachisme - derived from the French word «tache» meaning «spot» - describes a type of abstract painting popular in the late 1940s and 1950s characterized by the use of irregular dabs or splotches of colour.

Pierre Soulages Biography and Abstract Paintings of French Exponent of Tachisme.

These mini-movements included: (1) Tachisme, a style of abstract painting marked by splotches and dabs of colour, was promoted as the French answer to American Abstract Expressionism.

Interestingly, Feneon also coined the term Tachisme to describe the painting technique of the Impressionists, some 60 years or so before it was re-used by the French art critic Michel Tapie to describe the Tachisme splinter movement which evolved out of abstract expressionism.

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.

Jean Fautrier was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor, considered as one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme, a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Interestingly enough the term Tachisme had already been claimed in 1889 by the French art critic Felix Feneon to describe the Impressionist technique, and again in 1909 by the artist Maurice Denis (1870 - 1943) in reference to Fauvism.

Tachisme was primarily a French movement, and was associated with the Ecole de Paris.

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.

Georges Mathieu was a French painter in the style of Tachisme and / or Lyrical Abstraction.

Important exponents of Tachisme, most either French or based in France, include: Jean Fautrier (1898 - 1964), Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012), the German - born but Paris - based Wols (Alfred, Otto, Wolfgang, Schulze)(1913 - 51), Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85), and the Paris - based American painter Sam Francis (1923 - 94).

The term Tachisme (tachism) describes a style of abstract painting characterized by the use of spots, blotches or stains of colour (tache is French for spot or splash).