a type of action painting evolved in France in which haphazard dabs and blots of colour are treated as a means of instinctive or unconscious expression
Word origin
C20: French, from tache stain
tachisme in American English
(ˈtæʃˌɪzəm; French taˈʃizm(ə))
noun
a method of action painting in which the paint is splashed, dribbled, etc. upon the canvas in apparently random patterns
Derived forms
tachiste (ˈtachiste) (ˈtæʃɪst; Fr, taˈʃist)
adjective
Word origin
Fr < tache, a spot (< OFr teche: see tetchy) + isme, -ism