Pierre Soulages
Abstract minimalist artist Pierre Soulages (1919) is also called the painter of black. He sees light as a matter to work with. Striating the black surface of his paintings enables him to make the light reflect, and allows the black to come out from darkness and into brightness. Black becomes a luminous colour.
Pierre Soulages says:
I like the authority of black. It’s an uncompromising colour. A violent colour, but one that encourages internalisation. Both a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens up a mental field all of its own.
Honoured in 2010 by having painting exhibited in the Louvre and a major retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
- 10.02.2011 .
- Benoit Raimbault .
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Beautiful. The image with the gashes reminds me of the works of Lucio Fontana. Must be a nightmare to get the proper lighting for it though.
Ah, my favorite black painter and the opposite (chromatically speaking) from my favorite white painter Robert Ryman.
I’ve been to the retrospective in Paris and it was beautiful. Ift was also on show in Berlin last month. I hope it will travel to Holland or Belgium as well. I would love to see it again.
For more info see his website: http://www.pierre-soulages.com/
At first I thought it was a photograph. I like the way the light reflects on the texture. Very nice.
simply gorgeous.
Akin to my attempts to photograph cloudless skies, capturing subtle atmospheric effects.
Wish I could get my finger on the difference between works like this (respectable, meaningful, inspiring) vs not-so-different works which outrage me (“I painted a room yellow – it’s art!” blargh).
@ctd: Let Mies van der Rohe guide you to at least part of the answer to your query: “God is in the details”.
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