Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. [international post-1945 styles and movements]
6. [post-1945 fine arts styles and movements]

Narrower term/s

• Tachiste

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the European movement in painting, which, begining around 1945, ran parallel with Abstract Expressionism in North America. The style is characterized by a more lyrical, improvised approach to abstraction based on subconscious fantasy, in contrast to the more structured tendencies in Abstract Expressionism.