Red Blossom

2011-04-21T09:44:00.000-07:00

I love spring!

Red Blossom, 2011
29x21 cm
Paper, gouache.

November abstractions

2010-11-28T11:44:00.000-08:00

Just emotions...
29x21 cm. 2010
Paper, gouache.

Tomato Carnival (La Tomatina)

2010-06-27T12:14:00.000-07:00

Tomato Carnival (La Tomatina). 26x17 cm. 2010
Cardboard, gouache.

Series of paintings: Nature in Blue and Yellow

2010-06-27T12:09:00.000-07:00

Sea and Sun. 26x17 cm. 2010
Cardboard, gouache.

Blue Bird 26x17 cm. 2010
Cardboard, gouache.

Can you see red llama here?

2010-06-27T11:01:00.000-07:00

Red Llama. 26x17 cm. 2010
Cardboard, gouache.

Artist Workplace

2010-06-27T10:49:00.000-07:00

Here my favorite materials. Primary Colors - our everything.

Alexander Shulga - Ukrainian Tachisme Artist

2010-06-25T10:20:00.000-07:00

Alexander Shulga - young Ukrainian Tachisme Artist, was born in Independent Ukraine. His paintings are expressive and unusual. They reflect current ukrainian actuality. His sight at usual things is direct and a little childlike. But his works are always positive and Nonconformistic.

What is Tachisme?
Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache–stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism. It was part of a larger postwar movement known as Art Informel (or Informel)[1], which abandoned geometric abstraction in favour of a more intuitive form of expression. Another name for Tachism (similar to action painting) is Abstraction lyrique from where it originated (related to American Lyrical Abstraction). The Cobra group artists are also related to Tachisme, as is Japan's Gutai group.

After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to Tachisme, the European equivalent of American abstract expressionism. Important proponents were Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Nicholas de Stael, Hans Hartung, Serge Poliakoff, and Georges Mathieu, among several others. (See list of artists below.)

Tachisme was a reaction to Cubism and is characterized by spontaneous brushwork, drips and blobs of paint straight from the tube, and sometimes scribbling reminiscent of calligraphy.

Tachisme is furthermore closely related to Art Informel, which, in its 1950s French art-critical context, designated not so much a sense of 'informal art' as 'a lack or absence of form itself'–viz un-formal or un-form-ulated–and not a simple reduction of formal-ness.(Wikipedia)