| Tachism - The Concept | | | | impasto, thickened with products, including tar, |
| Tachism, also spelt as Tachisme, comes from the | | | | straw, and sand. This gave his artwork a textured |
| French word 'tache' - meaning stain or spot. | | | | feel that was unique. Another famous Tachiste |
| Tachism is a style of Abstract Painting that | | | | German painter, Karl Otto Götz (born 1914) |
| reigned the French Art scene during 1940s and | | | | was a part of the COBRA group. He later |
| 1950s. Abstraction Lyrique (American Lyrical | | | | co-founded the Frankfurt 'Quadriga', a group of |
| Abstraction) and L'art Informel (Action Painting) | | | | artists representing a style of Tachism, inspired |
| are some of the other names that have been | | | | by the works of Wols and the Automatism style. |
| used to describe Tachism. This Western Painting | | | | Tachism heavily inspired Sam Francis (1923-94), |
| style has also been referred to as the European | | | | an American Abstract Painter, also. |
| counterpart to Abstract Expressionism of | | | | The Correlations |
| America. French critics Pierre Guéguen and | | | | This style of Western Painting was widely |
| Charles Estienne, in 1951, are said to have coined | | | | followed after World War II in Paris, and continued |
| the term Tachism. It was also talked about in | | | | through the 1950s. The works under this art style |
| Michel Tapié's book Un Art autre (1952). | | | | carried spontaneous and intuitive brush strokes, |
| The Gutai Group from Japan and the Cobra | | | | similar to Action Painting of the US. Tachism is |
| Group artists are both associated with this art | | | | said to have developed as a Non-Geometric |
| style. | | | | Abstract Art form, a reaction to Cubism. |
| The Artists | | | | The Details |
| Prominent Tachism painters include Hans Hartung | | | | Sweeping brush strokes and sometimes the blobs |
| (1904-89) and A O Wolfgang Schulze Wols | | | | of paint directly from the tube marked Tachism |
| (1913-51), both born in Germany. Wolfgang | | | | creations. Blots & splashes of colors and |
| Schulze (French - born 1913) is also called the | | | | scribbling resembling calligraphy, characterize the |
| spiritual father of 'Tachism.' The other important | | | | artworks. Departing from the restrictive Cubist |
| proponents of Tachism include Georges Mathieu | | | | style, the Tachiste painters played around with |
| (French - born 1927), Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian - | | | | paint and calligraphy, working with loaded brushes |
| born 1927), Roger Bissière (French - | | | | and splashing and spraying colors. Both, elegance |
| 1888-1964), and Norman Bluhm (American - | | | | & gracefully blended colors, and irregularly |
| 1921-99), to name some. Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) | | | | sprayed dabs of color on the canvas, |
| was a very famous French avant-garde painter. | | | | characterized artworks under Tachism. |
| He followed Tachism and used oil paints and an | | | | |