What is the “black light” of Pierre Soulages?
Pierre Soulages, born in Rodez, Aveyron, on 24 December 1919, is a French painter and printmaker who has been involved in abstract art since the late 1940s. He is most famous for his reflection on black. "Noir lumière" or "outrenoir" he calls it. He is one of the main representatives of informal painting.