tachisme Thesaurus Encyclopedia Wikipedia tach·isme ortach·ism(tăsh′ĭz′əm) n. A French school of art originating in the 1950s and characterized by irregular dabs and splotches of color applied haphazardly to the canvas. [Frenchtachisme, fromtache,stain, from Old Frenchteche,mark,of ...
Wols, Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Hans Hartung, Gérard Schneider, Serge Poliakoff, Georges Mathieu and Jean Messagier, among several others. (See list of artists below.)
The Cobra group artists are also related to Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group. After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to Tachisme, the European equivalent of American abstract expressionism. Important proponents were Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Nicholas de Stael, Hans ...