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thumb|160px|[[Serge Poliakoff Composition: Gray and Red, 1964]]

Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache, stain; ) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The term is said to have been first used with regard to the movement in 1951. It is often considered to be the European response and equivalent to abstract expressionism, although there are stylistic differences (American abstract expressionism tended to be more "aggressively raw" than tachisme).

Artists

  • Pierre Alechinsky (born 1927) – Cobra group
  • Karel Appel (1921–2006) – Cobra group
  • Frank Avray Wilson (1914–2009)
  • Jean René Bazaine (1904–2001)
  • Roger Bissière (1888–1964)
  • Ferruccio Bortoluzzi (1920–2007)
  • Norman Bluhm (1921–1999) – American associated with this movement
  • Bram Bogart (1921–2012) – Cobra group
  • Alexander Bogen (1916–2010)
  • Denis Bowen (1921–2006)
  • Camille Bryen (1907–1977)
  • Alberto Burri (1915–1995)
  • Beauford Delaney (1901–1979) – American associated with this movement
  • Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
  • Agenore Fabbri (1911–1998)
  • Jean Fautrier (1898–1964)
  • Lucio Fontana (1899–1968)
  • Sam Francis (1923–1994) – American associated with this movement
  • Elaine Hamilton (1920–2010) – American associate of Tapié, influenced by this movement
  • Hans Hartung (1904–1989)
  • Jacques Hérold (1910–1987)
  • Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer (born 1928)
  • Paul Jenkins (1923–2012) – American associated with this movement
  • Asger Jorn (1914–1973) – Cobra group
  • Karel Kuklík (1937–2019) – Czech photographer regarded as a representative of Informel in photography.
  • Joseph Lacasse (1894–1975)
  • René Laubies (1922–2006)
  • André Lanskoy (1902–1976)
  • François Lanzi (1916–1988)
  • Maria Lassnig (1919–2014)
  • Georges Mathieu (1921–2012)
  • Jean Messagier (1920–1999)
  • Henri Michaux (1899–1984)
  • Jean Miotte (born 1926)
  • Ludwig Merwart (1913–1979)
  • Zoran Mušič (1909–2005)
  • Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902–1968) – German influenced by this movement
  • Gen Paul (1895–1975)
  • Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969)
  • Marie Raymond (1908–1989)
  • Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002)
  • Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992)
  • Emilio Scanavino (1922–1986)
  • Gérard Schneider (1896–1986)
  • Emil Schumacher (1912–1999)
  • Pierre Soulages (1919–2022)
  • Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955)
  • Pierre Tal-Coat (1905–1985) - French
  • Michel Tapié (1909–1987)
  • Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012)
  • Bram van Velde (1895–1981)
  • Louis Van Lint (1909–1986)
  • François Willi Wendt (1909–1970)
  • Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) (1913–1951)
  • Zao Wou Ki (1921–2013)

See also

  • Nuagisme
  • French art
  • Abstract expressionism
  • Action painting
  • Lyrical Abstraction
  • École de Paris
  • Gutai group
  • Spatialism
  • Karl Otto Götz

Notes

References

  • Chilvers, Ian; A dictionary of twentieth-century art Oxford ; New York City : Oxford University Press, 1998
  • Tapié, Michel; Un art autre où il s'agit de nouveaux dévidages du réel Paris, Gabriel-Giraud et fils, 1952 OCLC 1110556
  • Tiampo, Ming. Gutai and Informel Post-war art in Japan and France, 1945—1965. (Worldcat link: [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/72471357&referer=brief_results]) (Dissertation Abstracts International, 65-01A) ,