Paris is also the place where he first encounters Tachism.

He is an important representative of Tachism and was a major force in graphic arts and prints, especially after World War II.

Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache-stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Another name for Tachism is Abstraction lyrique (related to American Lyrical Abstraction).

His works of the early 1960s, executed in oil on a polyester base, are in a gestural, impasto style close to Tachism, as in Constellation.

Abstract Expressionism ebulliently asserted post-war individual freedom during the 1950s, as Action Painting or Tachism, to become the first truly international art form since the flintstones.

Combining elements of concrete art, dada and tachism, the movement's adherents rejected easel painting and embraced new technological developments, seeking to incorporate time and movement in their works.

After years of investigation (attempts to adapt the rules of Tachism and performance art to the needs of the theatre), Kantor created his own model, called the Theatre of Death.

The way people talk and talk about tachism and cubism and this ism and that ism and all the long words they use - great smeary clots of words and phrases.

After World War II, while French artists explored such tendencies as tachism, fluxus and new realism, France's preeminence in the visual arts was eclipsed by developments elsewhere (the United States in particular).

In her manifesto, Export surveys a history of female artists within Surrealism, Kinetics, Tachism, Happenings, Art Informel and other contemporary movements, she finds the traces of feminine objectification within a phallocentric world.

The heads of French hostages, still lifes or abstract forms are the subjects, but it is the brusque physicality and small scale, so at odds with the prevailing styles of Abstract Expressionism and Tachism, that matters.

Sometimes referred to as Tachism, Art Autre or Lyrical Abstraction, it was a type of abstraction in which form became less important than that of the expressive impulses of the artist, and was opposed to the rationalism of traditional abstraction.

There were those who continued in the artistic experiments from before the war, especially surrealism, and others who adopted the new Abstract Expressionism and action painting from New York, executing them in a French manner using Tachism or L'art informel.

Her reasons were mainly "personal," she says; she went to join Jean-Paul Riopelle, a Montreal-born painter who was prominent in the Parisian Tachism movement - the French counterpart to Abstract Expressionism - and who would be her companion for the next 20 years.

"Marrying an abstract distinctly English landscape sensibility that draws on Patrick Heron and Ivon Hitchens with the fierce transatlantic colourism of Hans Hofmann and Nicolas de Stael's velvety tachism, Hoida arrives at an intensely personal synthesis, resonating with landscape feeling."

The next year he successfully applied for a place at West Berlin's Hochschule der Künste and continued his studies in Professor Hann Trier's class, a creative environment largely dominated by the gestural abstraction of Tachism and Art Informel, affecting a certain orientation towards Paris amongst both staff and students.