\u201cI paint not with black but with light.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Pierre Soulages (b. Rodez, France, 1919; lives and works in Paris and S\u00e8te, France) is an eminent figure in abstract painting. A member of the Nouvelle \u00c9cole de Paris, he developed his first nonobjective pictures early on, in 1946, putting bars of bold color, typically black, on white grounds. His embrace of total non-representationality, an art that depicts nothing, that stands for nothing but itself, amounted to a radical challenge to the traditional values of painting. In 1979, his work entered a new phase, a painting he calls \u201coutrenoir\u201d or \u201cbeyond black.\u201d Soulages now occupies a singular position, and not only by virtue of his choice of materials such as walnut stain and tar and implements like scrubbers, iron hooks, and spatulas. The book documents the arc of his oeuvre from his beginnings after World War II to the present. Illustrating the evolution of his art, it shows how he remained true to his creative vision, a consistency that is doubly imposing given the extraordinary length of his career.<\/p>\n Pierre Soulages studied at the \u00c9cole R\u00e9gionale des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, before moving to Paris in 1946. He contributed work to documentas I, II, and III and the 26th Biennale di Venezia. His work has been shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre and the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier. The Mus\u00e9e Soulages in his native Rodez opened in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13688,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2213],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13695","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-painting","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n