tachism

Definitions


[ˈtaʃɪz(ə)m], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a style of painting adopted by some French artists from the 1940s, involving the use of dabs or splotches of colour, similar in aims to abstract expressionism


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Origin:
1950s: from French tachisme, from tache ‘a stain’




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