Sentences with word «tachisme»

They all joined in rebellion against the painterly excess of Tachisme in Paris and Abstract Expressionist New York, much like America's Pop Art and Minimalism.

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.

Pierre Soulages (b. 1919) Abstract painter Associated with Tachisme Style of Art Informel.

Hartung, who died in 1989, was often associated with the Art Informel and Tachisme movements; his paintings explored how greatly an artist could control the look of gestural abstraction.

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...

Critics often compare Gutai to another overseas take on abstraction and action painting, Tachisme in France, but its parallels and processes range more widely.

The show presents a catalog of Western art movements that you may have forgotten how to tell apart, names like Tachisme, Art Brut, Cobra, and Arte Povera along with 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.

Pierre Soulages is the last, great, living painter to have been involved at the beginning of Art Informel, the post-war movement which encompassed Tachisme, Abstraction Lyrique, Gutai and CoBrA, that was the European concurrent of Abstract Expressionism and which favoured abandonment of any premeditated approach.

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.

Sam Francis (1923 - 1994) Influenced by Tachisme, Lyrical Abstraction and Japanese calligraphic art.

The influence at the school leaned towards Art Informel (the European variant of American Abstract Expressionism), and its offshoot Tachisme.

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).

Tachisme emerged in France in the 1940s and 1950s, and it is closely related to Informalism or Art Informel.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Other precedents might as easily be cited, however, including post-war Paris School tachisme — there is as much Poliakoff as Pollock to be divined in certain paintings, if one were so inclined.

Abandoning the Soviet Realism of the East, Schönebeck first worked through Tachisme, Western Europe's cooler answer to American Abstract Expressionism.

Similar Styles & Terminology Rather confusingly, despite some minor differences, there appears to be little to separate Tachisme from Art Autre (other art), Lyrical Abstraction, and Art Informel, all of which are sometimes used interchangeably, or to highlight the intricacies of theory rather than any visible difference.

As a style of expressionistic non-representational painting, Tachisme falls under the huge and rather vague umbrella of Abstract Expressionism.

The word Tachisme was first used to describe this modern form of gesturalism by the art critic Pierre Gueguen in 1951.

Tachisme Characteristics of Art Informel, Style of European Abstract Expressionism.

He experimented with abstract art and Tachisme before finding his personal style in Neo-Expressionism.

He and his wife, painter Natalia Dumitresco, were both associated with European abstract expressionism (known as Tachisme, Abstraction Lyrique, etc..)

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.

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.

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.

Her work is related to French Tachisme, American Abstract expressionism, and Surrealism — as were many of her contemporaries who were painting in Post-War Paris during the mid to late 1940s and early 1950s.

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.

Riopelle's highly textured abstract canvases, marrying American Abstract Expressionism with European Tachisme, might appear to be incompatible with Miró's playful personages in 3D.

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.

Biography: Pierre Soulages is the last, great, living painter to have been involved at the beginning of Art Informel, the post-war movement which encompassed Tachisme, Abstraction Lyrique, Gutai and CoBrA, that was the European concurrent of Abstract Expressionism and which favoured abandonment of any premeditated approach.

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.

The colors and compositions can seem as heavy as any second generation's, much like, again, Tachisme in France and Arte Povera in Italy — but then the first does derive from a word for stain, and the latter tore apart the work of art.

While his Dutch father, Fred, practised a defanged post-impressionism, all sun - saturated beaches and luminous flowers, his mother Marie Raymond was at the forefront of Tachisme, a softer French analogue to abstract expressionism.

The most important movement that emerged as reaction to the Action Painting was Tachisme.

Some of the most prominent figures of Tachisme were Jean - Paul Riopelle, Wols, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages.