Definition of Tachism

1. action painting [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tachism

tache meningeale
tache noire
tacheometer
tacheometers
taches
tachetic
tachhydrite
tachi-seki
tachiai
tachimochi
tachina
tachina fly
tachinid
tachinids
tachionic
tachism (current term)
tachisme
tachismes
tachisms
tachist
tachiste
tachistes
tachistesthesia
tachistoscope
tachistoscopes
tachistoscopic
tachists
tacho
tachocline
tachoclines

Literary usage of Tachism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concise Dictionary of the Holy Bible by James Covel (1843)
"After the way which they call heresy" Acts xxiv, 14, a sect or party ; for so the word signifies, tachism and heresy are nearly allied, 1 Cor. xi, 18, 19. ..."

2. De Stijl Continued: The Journal Structure (1958-1964) : an Artists' Debate by Jonneke Jobse (2005)
"For this reason, some of them sought certainty in mathematics. 'Whereas in tachism autocratic subjectivity as a reaction and a way out of our burocratic and ..."

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