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tachist, n. (and a.) Art.|ˈtæʃɪst|
Also ‖ tachiste |tæʃist|.
[ad. F. tachiste, f. tache stain, spot + -iste -ist.]
†1. One who paints by juxtaposing small patches of unmixed colour. Obs.
1891[see plein-airiste s.v. plein-air]. 1909C. E. Hallé Notes from Painter's Life xi. 234 We have even schools which take their names from the manner of using the brush. We have ‘Tachists’, ‘Vibrists’, and Heaven knows how many more.
2. a. One who practices tachism (see below).
1954New Yorker 4 Dec. 99/1 Negatively, it can be said that the unknowns are certainly not Cubists and not tachistes, and not Mondrianesque or Braqueish either. 1957[see tache n.1 1 c]. 1960Guardian 22 Apr. 9/4 The young English tachistes for whom freedom is an engrossing obsession.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1955New Yorker 31 Dec. 40/3 The car, maybe the vegetables, and certainly the hope of sharing as an artist in the dubious kudos have all been attributed to a tachiste French painter. 1956Archit. Rev. CXX. 186/1 In his delectable paintings of trout hovering in light-stained water he uses tachist techniques with a consummate professionalism. 1966‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept iii. 103 People should not look at his [sc. William Johnstone's] paintings with any preconceived ideas and seek for elements in them which can be labelled..‘tachist’, and the like. 1972R. Quilty Tenth Session i. 123 An aggressive twenty square feet of tachist canvas. 1982S. Spender China Diary 118 The Western artist looks at the model... The first object of his attention is usually the image, even if this is abstract (except for tachiste painting).
Hence ˈtachism [cf. F. tachisme (also used)] a style of modern painting in which spots or dabs of colour are arranged in apparently random manner to evoke an emotion, scene, etc.; cf. action painting s.v. action n. 16.
1956Archit. Rev. CXX. 333/1 The same Cézanne picture, considered simply as a painted surface, is one of the finest examples of ‘tachism’ in the history of art. 1957Times 28 Nov. 3/4 The Canadian artist, Mr. Austin Cooper can claim to have been among the first in this country to practise what is now generally known as tachisme. 1960J. Cohen Chance, Skill & Luck ii. 42 Nealces may deserve to be described by the historian of art as the founder of Tachism. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 696/1 Abstract expressionism and tachisme, dead on time, and an explosion of hard-edged colour, produced, he told me, under the razzamataz influence of New York. 1979E. H. Gombrich Sense of Order ii. 62 Any number of Ph.D. theses await being written about the influence of Cubism, of Tachism, of Op or Pop art on fabrics and wall paper. |
