Important COBRA, Art Informel and
Tachisme painters included the Dutch artist Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) and the German - born painters Hans Hartung (1904 — 1989) and Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)(1913 — 1951).
Not exact matches
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.
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.
André Lanskoy was a Russian
painter and printmaker who lived in France, linked to the School of Paris and
Tachisme, an abstract painting movement.
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).»
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...
Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) American
painter, member of
Tachisme & Lyrical Abstraction movements.
[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).
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.
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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.
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.
Georges Mathieu was a French
painter in the style of
Tachisme and / or Lyrical Abstraction.
Pierre Soulages (b. 1919) Abstract
painter Associated with
Tachisme Style of Art Informel.
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).