Tachism
Tachism (from French la tache "color stain ") is a direction of Informel in abstract painting that originated in Paris in the 1940s and was active until around 1960. The term was coined by the French art critic Pierre Guéguen , who called the works derogatory tachisme (German Fleckwerk ).
In Tachism, the artist tries to depict spontaneous sensations and the unconscious , avoiding any rational control, by applying spots of color to a canvas. In the United States was approximately parallel time in abstract expressionism with the Action Painting a closely related method of painting, often both terms are also used interchangeably.
Well-known representatives are Roger Bissière , Pierre Tal-Coat , Nicolas de Staël , Karl Fred Dahmen , Karl Otto Götz , Gerhard Hoehme , Georges Mathieu , Ludwig Merwart , Maria Lassnig , Emil Schumacher and Wols .
See also
literature
- Georges Mathieu : De la révolte à la renaissance. Au-delà du Tachisme . (= Idées. 279). Gallimard, Paris 1963
- Berchtold von Grüningen: From Impressionism to Tachism. Painting, lithographs, photography, applied graphics . Birkhäuser Verlag, Stuttgart 1964.
- Friedrich Bayl: Pictures of our days . Dumont Schauberg, Cologne 1960.
- Theo Hofsäss: The Tachismus and A. Thomas Stöckl. Jung Verlag, Freiburg (Br) 1996, ISBN 3-921231-52-3 .
