Pierre Soulages (b. 1919) Abstract painter Associated
with Tachisme Style of Art Informel.
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).
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.
[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).
Mathieu's calligraphic gestural style is partially indebted to Hans Hartung, another artist associated
with Tachisme.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).»
Galerie Perrotin will now represent the estate of Hans Hartung, the French artist associated
with the Art Informel and
Tachisme movements.
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...
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.
Francis» involvement
with «
tachisme» helped solidify a personal style built around expressive open space.
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.
Tachisme was primarily a French movement, and was associated
with the Ecole de Paris.
Tachisme is sometimes known as or interchangeable
with Abstration Lyrique (Lyrical Abstraction), Art Informel (Art without Form) and Art Autre (other art).
Popular during the late 1940s and 1950s, this style of abstract art is part of (and to this extent synonymous
with) the broader movement of Art Informel: the only difference is that
Tachisme is focused exclusively on the type of expressive gesture used by the artist.
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).
When the War ended, he turned his attention to abstract art in the form of oil painting, becoming associated
with Art Informel,
Tachisme and Lyrical Abstraction.
It is sometimes, confusingly, referred to as
Tachisme, a style which only applies to pictures
with blotches or stains.