art autren.
/ˌɑːt ˈəʊtrə/, U.S. /ˌɑrt ˈoʊtrə/ A style of painting in which spots or daubs of colour are applied in an apparently random manner, breaking with traditional ideas of composition, to evoke an emotion, landscape, etc.; = tachism n. at tachist n. Derivatives.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > action painting or tachism
abstract expressionism1922
action art1930
action painting1952
tachism1956
art autre1957
1953 Contemp. Amer. Painting & Sculpt. 79 He..has lived in Paris since 1953, where he has been associated with Michel Tapie and ‘L'Art Autre’.]
1957 Times 18 June 3/2 ‘Other Art’, or ‘Art Autre’ (the coinage of a Frenchman in 1944), is intended, I imagine, to suggest not that this is a form of painting entirely without precedent but one that revels in the physical quality of paint with a greater and more conscious delight than in the past.
1959 Vogue June 115/2 Art autre makes painting a truly visual art.
1994 Art Jrnl. 53 19/1 Comparing Europe and America, Plante significantly differentiates the discourse of Art Autre from that of Abstract Expressionism.
2002 N. Whiteley Reyner Banham ii. 123 There were strong parallels between the New Brutalism and art autre, including the rejection of a transcendent classical aesthetic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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