tachisme

/ taʃism, ˈtɑːʃɪzəm /

noun

1. a type of action painting evolved in France in which haphazard dabs and blots of colour are treated as a means of instinctive or unconscious expression

Word History and Origins

Origin of tachisme¹

C20: French, from tache stain

Example Sentences

Their somber tones stood in sharp contrast to the bright colors favored by the adherents of Tachisme, France’s answer to Abstract Expressionism.

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Ignored entirely are movements—French tachisme, Northern European COBRA—that contested New York supremacy at the time and seem ripe, now, for reconsideration.

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Their goal was to sweep aside familiar modes of gestural painting and pictorial sentimentality, most prominently exemplified by Abstract Expressionism and Tachisme.

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While Ms. Bhabha actively reformulates and intensifies the existentialist figurative sculpture of that era, Mr. Hesidence has turned to Tachisme and Art Informel with similar results.

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To the sophisticated French pursuit of paint as paint�tachisme, art brut, or art informel�Spaniards such as T�pies brought robust energy.

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