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Tachism(from French, tache: “spot”) Style of painting practiced in Paris after World War II and through the 1950s. Like its U.S. equivalent, action painting, it featured the intuitive, spontaneous gesture of the artist's brush stroke. The Tachists, including Hans Hartung and Georges Mathieu, produced large works of sweeping brush strokes and of drips, blots, stains, and splashes of colour. Tachism was part of the postwar movement known as Art Informel, inspired by U.S. Abstract Expressionism. |
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Just as a generation of artists in the States revolted against the expressionist ethos of action painting, in Europe art informel and tachisme engendered a host of countermovements in the late '50s. Michaux's works in ink from the '50s and '60s, usually seen as part of the broader current of tachisme, brought together his early fascination with the cusp between drawing and writing and his later play with the ambiguity between abstract mark-making and figurative suggestion; his long attraction to Asian cultures - in which painting, drawing, and calligraphy are less distinct forms than in the West - finds its fruition here too. But there's no argument, in my opinion, to be made in favor of European tachisme even holding a candle to the New York School. |
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