Hommage a Poliakoff, Tachiste Abstract Acrylic on Paper.

About the Item

Large Tachiste abstract in acrylic on paper inspired by the paintings of Serge Poliakoff. The painting is presented in a plain moulded frame under Perspex. A highly colourful and energetic abstract painting in the Tachiste art style. Primary colourfields are overlaid without perspective and invite the viewer's eye to wander and create its own images within the painting. A nose, a pair of lips or a neckline may appear. The choice is yours. As well as Tachism a number of influences can be seen in this painting. Abstract modern art is non representational and has an absence of recognisable forms as you would find in Kandinsky's, Delauney's, Picasso's and Braque's work. Abstract art values shapes, colour, lines and texture as seen in Piet Mondrian's paintings. 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 regards 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. After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to Tachisme, the European equivalent of American abstract expressionism. Important proponents were Jean-Paul Riopelle, Wols, Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Hans Hartung, Gérard Schneider, Serge Poliakoff, Georges Mathieu and Jean Messagier, among several others. According to Chilvers, the term tachisme "was first used in this sense in about 1951 (the French critics Charles Estienne and Pierre Guéguen have each been credited with coining it) and it was given wide currency by Michel Tapié in his book Un Art autre (1952)." Tachisme was a reaction to Cubism and is characterized by spontaneous brushwork, drips and blobs of paint straight from the tube, and sometimes scribbling reminiscent of calligraphy. Tachisme is closely related to Informalism or Art Informel, which, in its 1950s French art-critical context, referred not so much to a sense of "informal art" as "a lack or absence of form itself"–non-formal or un-form-ulated–and not a simple reduction of formality or formalness. Art Informel was more about the absence of premeditated structure, conception or approach (sans cérémonie) than a mere casual, loosened or relaxed art procedure.

Dimensions:

Height: 39.18 in (99.5 cm)Width: 32.88 in (83.5 cm)Depth: 0.99 in (2.5 cm)

Medium:

Paper,Acrylic

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

After:

Serge Poliakoff (1900 - 1969, Russian)

Period:

Late 20th Century

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