Gillian Ayres tachisme ( taʃism ) style

1. French style of abstract painting current in the 1940s and 1950s, the European equivalent to abstract expressionism. Breaking free from the restraints of cubism, the Tachistes adopted a novel, spontaneous approach to brushwork, typified by all-over blotches of impastoed color and dribbled paint, or swirling calligraphy applied straight from the tube, as in the work of Gillian Ayres Gillian Ayres tachisme (taʃism)style born 3 February 1930 is an British painter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyygWoV2T44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtPDiMDurzE

2. Gillian Ayres later work in oil paint are exuberant and very colorful, with a thick impasto being used. • The titles of her paintings, such as Anthony and Cleopatra (1982) and A Midsummer Night (1990), are usually given after the painting is completed and do not directly describe the content of the painting, but rather are intended to resonate with the general mood of the work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3y4JA7mReQ

4. action painting in unconscious expression • Her first solo exhibition was held at Gallery One, London in 1956 Antony and Cleopatra, 1982, Tate Gallery

7. decorative painting by Gillian Ayres

8. High Summer World of Light

11. 1989

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuuY4M_Njqk

13. Gillian Ayres, Widsith, 2009

15. 2004Linocut with hand-paintingPaper 115.0 x 115.0 cm 

16. Easel Monoprints