Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié (Michel Tapié de Céleyran, 26 February 1909 – 30 July 1987) was an internationally active French critic, curator, and collector of art. He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of "tachisme", which is generally regarded as the European equivalent of abstract expressionism. Tapié was from an old and aristocratic French family; he was also a second cousin once removed ("petit-cousin") of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (the painter's mother Adèle Tapié de Celeyran was his great-aunt).Michel Tapié's 1952 book (sometimes referred to and anthologized as an "essay") entitled Un art autre, most commonly rendered in English as "Art of Another Kind", was immensely influential in establishing a European approach to and embrace of what in the U.S. is generally termed abstract expressionism, and especially the subgenres of action painting and lyrical abstraction.

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié

Michel Tapié