# Tachisme (タシスム)

> A European abstraction named after the tache—the stain—that gives the leading role to the chance of touch and drip. Planned composition is abandoned; the very speed at which paint lands and flows becomes the order of the surface. Within Art Informel, the name that focuses on the swiftness of the gesture.

- IndexStyle No.472 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/tachisme
- Kind: Style · Family: Gestural Abstraction · Era: 1945–1960
- Mood: Play
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Accumulations of stains and drips
- Marks of rapid gesture
- Arrangements without a centre
- Contrast with reserves of white ground

## Best used for

- Identity systems energised by authentic ink splashes and calligraphic speed
- Title sequences and posters where a single fast gesture is the hero

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- One quiet grotesque, small and stable, set against the moving marks
- Off-centre clusters of gesture surrounded by generous white; no grid, only momentum
- Fluid ink and thinned paint that stains, drips and splashes on a white ground

## What to avoid

Avoid retouching or composing the splash after the fact—corrected gestures lose the recorded speed that is the style's entire content.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Accumulations of stains and drips
- [ ] Marks of rapid gesture
- [ ] Arrangements without a centre
- [ ] Contrast with reserves of white ground
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Art Informel (アンフォルメル)** — A postwar European abstraction that refused both geometric composition and figuration, making the surface out of matter and the traces of the act itself. Thickly piled paint, scratches, stains and tears present a state before form. The source of all design that pushes the physicality of material to the front. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/art-informel
- **Abstract Expressionism (抽象表現主義)** — Leaves the act of painting and intense inner feeling on vast canvases — bodily strokes, drips, stains, broad fields — rather than depicted subjects. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/abstract-expressionism

## Further study

- The overlap in terminology with Art Informel
- Gesture as a record of time
- The debate comparing it with calligraphy

## Reference works

- Hans Hartung《T46-17》1946 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T46-17%20(1946)%20-%20Hans%20Hartung%20(1904%20-%201989)%20(39225331995).jpg
- Wols《自由への渇望》1940 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wols%2C%20D%C3%A9sirs%20de%20libert%C3%A9%20(Freiheitsdrang)%2C%201940.jpg
- Jean Fautrier《おおぐま座》壁画 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peinture%20murale%20de%20Jean%20Fautrier%2C%20la%20Grande%20Ourse.jpg

## Source of record

- Tate — Art Terms: Tachisme — https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/t/tachisme

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/tachisme
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/tachisme/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

タシュ（染み）から名を得た、筆触と滴りの偶然性を主役にするヨーロッパの抽象。計画された構図を捨て、絵具が置かれ流れる速度そのものが画面の秩序になる。アンフォルメルの中でも身振りの速さに焦点を置く呼び名。

特徴: 染みと滴りの集積／速い身振りの筆跡／中心を持たない配置／白地の余白との対比
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。