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).
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.
Georges Mathieu was a French painter in the style
of Tachisme and / or Lyrical Abstraction.
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.
In Europe, a similar method was seen in the form
of Tachisme.
Like the quieter style
of Tachisme, COBRA was a theoretical (if not always visible) variant of Art Informel.
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.
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.
Pierre Soulages Biography and Abstract Paintings of French Exponent
of Tachisme.
Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) American painter, member
of Tachisme & Lyrical Abstraction movements.
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.
His early painting reflected the influence
of Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism.
Turning against the emotive, gesticular abstraction
of Tachisme and Art Informel, Staudt's predominantly grid - like reliefs, composed of a restricted set...
Some of the most prominent figures
of Tachisme were Jean - Paul Riopelle, Wols, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages.
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.
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.
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.
Tachisme refers to the French style
of abstract painting current in the 1945 — 1960 period.
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.
Also in Europe, Art brut, [17] and Lyrical Abstraction or
Tachisme (the European equivalent to Abstract expressionism) took hold
of the newest generation.
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.
These are just some
of the memories the exhibition Between
Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism: Bluhm, Francis, Jenkins at Hollis Taggart Galleries (October 5 — November 10, 2017) stirred up.
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.
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.
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.
Galerie Perrotin will now represent the estate
of Hans Hartung, the French artist associated with the Art Informel and
Tachisme movements.
Critics sometimes compare her work to the emotive, intuitive paintings
of the Lyrical Abstraction and
Tachisme movements — a comparison she embraces.
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...
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.
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.
• CALLIGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) Noted for his White Writing, a form
of calligraphic gesturalism;
tachisme art.
[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.
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.
•
Tachisme (1950s) Blotchy form
of gestural abstract painting developed in France.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abandoning the Soviet Realism
of the East, Schönebeck first worked through
Tachisme, Western Europe's cooler answer to American Abstract Expressionism.