Sentences with phrase «term tachisme»
The term Tachisme (tachism) describes a style of abstract painting characterized by the use of spots, blotches or stains of colour (tache is French for spot or splash).
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Interestingly enough the term Tachisme had already been claimed in 1889 by the French art critic Felix Feneon to describe the Impressionist technique, and again in 1909 by the artist Maurice Denis (1870 - 1943) in reference to Fauvism.
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.
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.
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).»
Not exact matches
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.
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.