Sentences with phrase «also tachisme»

Associated principally with the Lyrical Abstraction style, but also Tachisme, Mathieu's expressive art, combined with a natural talent for self - promotion, gained him an international reputation during the 1950s.

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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.

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

COBRA is also related to Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group.

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.

Tachisme, also known as Art Informel and Lyrical Abstraction, rejected geometric abstraction as lifeless and too passive.

Tachisme also rejected Cubism and was characterised by paint used straight from the tube, dripped and blobbed.

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.