Word: surind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stark black lines. In 1947 he made his momentous step: "I organized the lines into a great sign which suppresses the descriptive tendency of the line." The results won the praise of oldtime Surrealist Picabia, who called Soulages' work the best painting in the 1947 Salon des Surindépendents. When a black-and-white Soulages painting was used as the cover for the catalogue of a show of young painters traveling to West Germany, Soulages was made. Repeating the formula ever since has only increased his fame, placed him in the front ranks of French abstract painters...
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