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.

From New York Times

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

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

From New York Times

The colors are electric, like those of Cobra, the group formed by northern Europeans in the early 1950s; stains and washes suggest Tachisme or Post-Painterly Abstraction.

From New York Times

The colors are electric, like those of Cobra, the group formed by northern Europeans in the early 1950s; stains and washes suggest Tachisme or Post-Painterly Abstraction.

From New York Times