Critics sometimes compare her work to the emotive, intuitive paintings of the Lyrical Abstraction and
Tachisme movements — a comparison she embraces.
Galerie Perrotin will now represent the estate of Hans Hartung, the French artist associated with the Art Informel and
Tachisme movements.
Not exact matches
The most important
movement that emerged as reaction to the Action Painting was
Tachisme.
These works gained him international recognition as one of the first painters to develop a new style of postwar abstraction, and he was eventually associated — despite his rejection of labels — with such
movements as
tachisme, art informel, and action painting.
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.
His lyrical and ebullient pictorial language drew from archaic sources, as well as the drawings of children and contemporary art
movements such as Cubism and
Tachisme.
André Lanskoy was a Russian painter and printmaker who lived in France, linked to the School of Paris and
Tachisme, an abstract painting
movement.
Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) American painter, member of
Tachisme & Lyrical Abstraction
movements.
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.
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.
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 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.
His early paintings were influenced by the Art Informel
movement and the
Tachisme style, as well as Americans like Jackson Pollock (1912 - 66), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97) and Mark Rothko (1903 - 70).
Tachisme was primarily a French
movement, and was associated with the Ecole de Paris.
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.
Abstract Expressionism preceded
Tachisme, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, Neo-expressionism, and the other
movements of the sixties and seventies and it influenced all those later
movements that evolved.
Popular during the late 1940s and 1950s, this style of abstract art is part of (and to this extent synonymous with) the broader
movement of Art Informel: the only difference is that
Tachisme is focused exclusively on the type of expressive gesture used by the artist.
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.
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.»
The larger postwar
movement known as Art Informel - of which
Tachisme is a part - is best translated as «art without predefined form or structure».