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crisp creases of unpainted canvas spanning the composition, and at other times as a monochrome mass manifesting in the center of an unprimed canvas. His technique of "pliage" (folding): the canvas is first folded in various forms, then painted with a brush, and unfolded, leaving apparent blank sections of the canvas interrupted by vibrant splashes of color. The technique was inspired by the marks left folding on his mother’ apron.
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where the artist lived starting 1966. Hantaï stated: "It was while working on the Studies that I realized what my true subject was – the resurgence of the ground underneath my painting." In contrast with the Meun (1967–68), the figure, in the Studies (1969), is absorbed and the white detaches from
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Hantaï began creating pliage paintings in 1960, conceiving of the process as a marriage between Surrealist automatism and the allover gestures of Abstract Expressionism. The technique dominated the work he made during the rest of his career, re-emerging in diverse forms—sometimes as a network of
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A representative collection of Hantaï's works is held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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Rodgers, Paul, "Simon Hantaï & Andy Warhol – The Fate of Modern Art in the Post-Second World War Era" 4/1/10.
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on May 22, 2013, with more than 130 works from 1949 to 1990s, and a full color illustrated catalog.
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wrote the preface to his first exhibition catalogue in Paris, but in 1955 Hantaï broke with the
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Cochran, Samuel, "Simon Hantaï's Abstract Paintings At Paul Kasmin Gallery, Centre Pompidou,"
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From 1967 to 1968 he worked on the Meuns series where he studies the theme of the figure.
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group over Breton's refusal to accept any similarity between the surrealist technique of
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Simon Hantaï in the French public collections of modern and contemporary art.
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Dominique Fourcade, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Alfred Pacquement, Jean Coyner.
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Quote from Hantaï in conversation with Paul Rodgers, Paris studio, 1994
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Pablo Picasso | Simon Hantaï: Drama Shared, Cubism and the Fold
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nationality in 1966) is a painter generally associated with
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