tachisme

Noun

tachism (uncountable)

1. A French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
   • This was particularly notable in early stages of impressionism—the 1866 Manet Affair for example—and later postimpressionism when tachism, pointillism, and cloisonism—as well as the term referring to the Italian impressionists, macchaioli—begin to create paintings where the surface overshadows the...1992, Philippe Hamon, translated by Katia Sainson-Frank and Lisa Maguire, Expositions: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-century France, University of California Press, page 146