Sentences with phrase «tachisme in»

American abstract expressionism led the way, paralleled by Art Informel and Tachisme in Europe.

Critics often compare Gutai to another overseas take on abstraction and action painting, Tachisme in France, but its parallels and processes range more widely.

Not exact matches

Tachisme emerged in France in the 1940s and 1950s, and it is closely related to Informalism or Art Informel.

Torn and burned canvas and incised wood are everywhere in her first solo at Rachel Uffner, which cuts dangerously close to the midcentury Tachisme of Wols and Fautrier.

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

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.

A crucial part of Castellani's quest to go beyond painting, and challenge the international prevalence of Abstract Expressionism and Tachisme, was the gallery Azimut and art review, named Azimuth, which he co-founded with Manzoni in 1959.

André Lanskoy was a Russian painter and printmaker who lived in France, linked to the School of Paris and Tachisme, an abstract painting movement.

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.

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).»

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 Australia, Tachisme was embraced by the Sydney School.

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.

[1] While in Paris he became associated with Tachisme, and had his work championed by art critics Michel Tapié and Claude Duthuit (the son - in - law of the painter Henri Matisse).

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.

• Tachisme (1950s) Blotchy form of gestural abstract painting developed in France.

Curiously, the same degree of fragmentation was occurring in Europe: the main movement Art Informel, which corresponded to Abstract Expressionism, comprised numerous different styles and tendencies, such as Tachisme, Art Non Figuratif, Abstraction Lyrique, and others.

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 grouIn 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 grouin 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.

A similar type of fragmentation was occurring in Europe: the main abstract expressionist movement Art Informel, broke up into numerous different styles and tendencies, such as Tachisme, Art Non Figuratif, Abstraction Lyrique, and others.

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With «Between Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism: Bluhm, Francis, Jenkins,» Hollis Taggart Galleries will present a selection of works by Postwar painters Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis, and Paul Jenkins that illustrates their function as a bridge between the avant - garde movements in New York and Paris.

All adopted the free - flowing abstraction characteristic of «tachisme,» which was developing in Paris at this same time.

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.

In addition to Tachisme, another sub-variant of Art Informel was Matter Painting.

While in France, Francis became involved with Tachisme, a style of abstract gestural painting characterised by the irregular use of splotches and dabs of colour.

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.

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.

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

After experimenting with Tachisme, a gestural form of abstract expressionist painting which he thought shallow, he developed another technique about 1950 - 1, which he called «controlled drops» (egoutture dirigee), as in his Composition (1950 - 1).

Meanwhile, parallel movements in Western Europe were appearing under various titles, such as Art Informel (c.1945 - 60), along with sub-variants such as Lyrical Abstraction (late 1940s, 1950s), Tachisme (c.1945 - 60) and the COBRA group (1948 - 51).

If Post-painterly abstraction sounds complicated, try reading about concurrent abstract expressionist movements in Europe, such as Art Informel (1940s, 1950s), its sub-variants Tachisme (late 1940s, 1950s) Lyrical Abstraction (1945 - 60), and the independent COBRA group (1948 - 51).

In theory, Art Informel was the main umbrella movement, which encompassed numerous sub-styles and sub-groups, such as Forces Nouvelles, CoBrA, Tachisme, Art Brut, Art Non Figuratif and Lyrical Abstraction.

When the War ended, he turned his attention to abstract art in the form of oil painting, becoming associated with Art Informel, Tachisme and Lyrical Abstraction.

The word Tachisme was first used to describe this modern form of gesturalism by the art critic Pierre Gueguen in 1951.

Those painters who have followed his example in France, under the general banner of art informel or the specifically gestural style of tachisme, and have adopted his formal devices and scale, are unwilling or unable to pursue the more radical implications of his art.

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).

In Europe, abstract expressionism was known as Art Informel (formless art), which divided into a gesturalist wing, known as Tachisme (see also the COBRA group), and a softer style called Lyrical Abstraction.

In Europe, Abstract Expressionism is known broadly speaking as Art Informel, and action - painting as 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.»