Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Tachisme sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Tachisme (1940s – 1950s), it traces two movements that shaped it, all well-established links: Art Informel and Surrealism; it runs alongside three parallel movements, all well-established links: Abstract expressionism, Action painting and COBRA; it fans out to one movement it went on to influence, a well-established link: Lyrical abstraction.
Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache, stain; French pronunciation: [taʃism] ⓘ) 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). It was part of a larger postwar movement known as Art Informel (or Informel), which abandoned geometric abstraction in favour of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to action painting. Another name for Tachism is Abstraction lyrique (related to American Lyrical Abstraction). COBRA is also related to Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group. Read more ↗