tachisme

British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of tachisme

C20: French, from tache stain

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

For Chagall has lived through all the century's artisticisms, from cubism and surrealism to tachisme, and embraced none.

From Time Magazine Archive