In Europe, Abstract Expressionism is known broadly speaking as Art Informel, and action - painting
as Tachisme.
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.
It is sometimes, confusingly, referred to
as Tachisme, a style which only applies to pictures with blotches or stains.
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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
The most important movement that emerged
as reaction to the Action Painting was
Tachisme.
With the exception of Kelly, all of those artists developed their versions of painterly abstraction that has been characterized at times
as lyrical abstraction,
tachisme, color field, Nuagisme and abstract expressionism.
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.
When during early 1950s
Tachisme was hailed
as the way forward, many had forgotten that Lacasse made his first Tachist paintings
as early
as 1936.
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.
COBRA is also related to
Tachisme,
as is Japan's Gutai group.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tachisme, also known
as Art Informel and Lyrical Abstraction, rejected geometric abstraction
as lifeless and too passive.
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.
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 is sometimes known
as or interchangeable with Abstration Lyrique (Lyrical Abstraction), Art Informel (Art without Form) and Art Autre (other art).
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.
The larger postwar movement known
as Art Informel - of which
Tachisme is a part - is best translated
as «art without predefined form or structure».
However, for those who do not wish to choose the doctrine Avray Wilson is proposing, the paintings offer the experience of aesthetically wonderful and accomplished explosions of colour and form vigorously displayed and art historically firmly categorised
as the European form of American Action Painting known
as «
Tachisme».