Pierre Soulages Biography
Soulages Pierre (Rodez, 1919) Pierre Soulages is a French painter, engraver and sculptor. From an early age he was marked by the landscapes and the rudeness of the people. During a stay in Paris, the visit to two exhibitions of Picasso and Cèzanne became revelations for the artist, so much so that from that moment he began to frequent the Fine Arts of Montpellier. After the war he went to live in Paris, where he worked exclusively with painting and created his own atelier in Sète. Soulages soon managed to find his own artistic style, characterized by ink and charcoal drawings, abstract paintings, calligraphic signs, all rigorously black on a white surface. His infatuation with the color black was born already in the 1960s, starting from his interest in the concept of "prehistoric", which led him to search for something purer and free from any symbolic connotation. Soulages participated in many group exhibitions starting in 1947, both in France and abroad, receiving many awards. His works were exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in museums and galleries until 1996, when the Museum of Modern Art in Paris organized an important retrospective for the artist. Soulages also worked in the theater and in 1957 he approached the technique of eroded copper, inserting it into his graphic art, while in the 1970s he approached sculpture and created his first bronzes.
