"Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting:European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean Jos\u00E9 Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered as a component of (Tachisme) when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Gu\u00E9guen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art \u00E0 Paris 1945\u20131966, and American Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969 A third definition is the usage as a descriptive term. "@en .