The Complex Abstractionism Of Pierre Soulages (Full Documentary)

There are two key elements that run throughout Soulages' work: light and color. Here, we're talking about the color black. it was the core of his palette. He felt that black was violent, intense, reactive, and therefore stayed loyal to it throughout his career. Light, although not tangible, was the most important tool in his painting. Here, the play of light transforms and transmutes as the thickness of the paint changes across the work's surface.
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  • @lchwm
    @lchwm2 жыл бұрын

    Perspective is one of the best documentary series on KZread! Keep them coming!

  • @kathyschreiber9947
    @kathyschreiber99472 жыл бұрын

    Was not familiar with Pierre Soulages. Thanks for turning me on to a great artist and human being. Still hanging in there at age 100+!

  • @kambrose1549
    @kambrose15496 ай бұрын

    I loved that comment on the random bounce of a rugby ball and how the artist is engaged in a process where he can't predict the outcome if he is actually to create. What an amazing array of highly intelligent comment from many different fields of study too!

  • @loliloloso
    @loliloloso2 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! I feel that I just fell in love with Soulages' art and thought. Thank you, Perspective.

  • @patwhyte6657
    @patwhyte6657 Жыл бұрын

    I have seen Soulage's work in Paris in 1966. I am just now seeing this documentary at age 80. Delighted to have stumbled upon this 'Perspective'. Excellent.

  • @timconstable7348
    @timconstable7348 Жыл бұрын

    This is a true art documentary, not just fact and figures, but succeeding in getting across some of the intangible aspects of what Soulages's work, and art in general, is all about. Thank you for taking such care.

  • @fatoomgierdien2181
    @fatoomgierdien21812 жыл бұрын

    One of the great masters... Pierre Soulage. Thank you Perpectkves.

  • @RamMohan-fh9ly
    @RamMohan-fh9ly2 жыл бұрын

    One of the most intellectually appealing documentaries. Very well done, thank you.

  • @KetchupCanvas
    @KetchupCanvas2 ай бұрын

    This is so fascinating! I love documentaries like this 😊

  • @gregrice3867
    @gregrice3867 Жыл бұрын

    WONDERFUL! Thank you Perspective. I attended art school for a while. I don't recall ever being introduced to Soulage. I'm grateful. I want to visit his museum in his native hometown. I don't like to admit that the commercial interest of Google could have suggested such a perfectly satisfying video introduction to this great contributor to the field of Art - but its Google, or the ghost in my machine.

  • @TheJojoaruba52
    @TheJojoaruba522 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this! I appreciate the art education this series affords me. I would never learn all of this without such documentaries. Hearing from the other experts in their disciplines is most interesting. The ending is powerful.

  • @MartinBaldock
    @MartinBaldock3 ай бұрын

    A joy to watch, thankyou!

  • @elizabethbrauer1118
    @elizabethbrauer11182 жыл бұрын

    Soulange enjoys the process and rolls with it - that's great! I have always liked the texture of acrylic paint, using it to build up a design on a flat canvas. But I love color and consider black a tool for creating a darker color.

  • @mokujinsan9946
    @mokujinsan9946 Жыл бұрын

    Watching this again has kicked me up the arse to finish my own project which was halted during COVID lock down here in Berlin. ❤️

  • @patrickryan6317
    @patrickryan63172 жыл бұрын

    Watched it for Valdamar - got lost in the middle … Obsessed by Soulages

  • @boxtruckhouse
    @boxtruckhouse2 жыл бұрын

    It's a mighty pure art that comes from somebody like that.

  • @user-dr6rt1ji3l
    @user-dr6rt1ji3l2 жыл бұрын

    First one I’ve seen of the series, very, very impressive! ❤️

  • @lopesgallery-art
    @lopesgallery-art2 жыл бұрын

    thank you for sharing.

  • @yasg2514
    @yasg25142 жыл бұрын

    This is so weird because I am creating some paintings which exist of black pigmentation and then not looking I came across Soulages work never heard of him before today and whala! I see how he uses black which has only lead me to reinforce my black paintings. What a wonderful artist he is the perspective has given me more perspective. Thank you I am pleased to have discovered this wonderful artist by chance.

  • @IvanPro5
    @IvanPro52 жыл бұрын

    Well this is more than beautiful

  • @itamardias17
    @itamardias172 жыл бұрын

    It's so beautiful. Thank you!

  • @qossl6727
    @qossl6727 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for another wonderful and inspiring documentary. What an interesting man, great art and wonderful life.

  • @fatoomgierdien2181
    @fatoomgierdien21812 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful and Fantastic video. I love the difference in perspectives.... The approach in making this rich video. Thank you. Cape Town

  • @sztorikRobertaval
    @sztorikRobertaval2 жыл бұрын

    I never miss a video. The best infotening chanel on internet

  • @Aaa-pz6nh
    @Aaa-pz6nh2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this! I was not familiar with his art before. It amazes me the people on here saying this isn’t art. To quote Debussy “Works of art make rules, rules do not make works of art.” The whole idea of using black to reflect the light is a really cool way to express one’s self. Which is what art at its core is about, self expression

  • @aliiputra2783

    @aliiputra2783

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ono Indonesia ķapan maju patung lukisan dan museum art

  • @edwardtaylor5207
    @edwardtaylor52072 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed that!

  • @PhilChavanne
    @PhilChavanne Жыл бұрын

    Beautifully deep documentary, thank you.

  • @selilelbi8342
    @selilelbi83428 ай бұрын

    What a artıst❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @monicacruz4407
    @monicacruz4407 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful, a real insight into the person and the work, I have to see the Abbaye Sainte-Foy de Conques now. Thank you 🙏

  • @prasantakumarb.k.720
    @prasantakumarb.k.720 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful!

  • @lisengel2498
    @lisengel2498 Жыл бұрын

    I loved to Watch this and I smiled when I heard Soulage say “ I Think this one is too perfekt” because I immediately recognized the experience of being in a “ too tight/too controlled momen” lacking the subtile feeling of breath 🎶🖤🎵

  • @Pausini2
    @Pausini2 Жыл бұрын

    RIP Pierre Soulages!❤️😓😥 C'est une énorme perte dans la peinture mondiale ! Je suis tellement triste!😭😭😭😭

  • @parlainthtownie85
    @parlainthtownie852 жыл бұрын

    Wow. I usually hate contemporary and abstract art. This resonates.

  • @futurescalling
    @futurescalling2 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic ...

  • @linebing6208
    @linebing62082 жыл бұрын

    So interesting! Thank you for that wonderful documentary!

  • @sastrasarmana9087
    @sastrasarmana9087 Жыл бұрын

    A great artist🙏

  • @lechat8533
    @lechat853311 ай бұрын

    Pierre Soulages from 1919 to 2022 (103 yrs old). His wife Colette Soulages was born in 1921, which makes her 102 years old. Incredible.

  • @lightuponlight6727
    @lightuponlight67272 жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @TAROTAI

    @TAROTAI

    Жыл бұрын

    think nothing of it!

  • @BrianJosephMorgan
    @BrianJosephMorgan Жыл бұрын

    Bravo.

  • @KittehNow
    @KittehNow2 жыл бұрын

    Exquisite

  • @saidahamelin3118
    @saidahamelin31182 жыл бұрын

    Just, wow.

  • @TAROTAI
    @TAROTAI Жыл бұрын

    "I would never lose myself for the sake of beauty . . ." Never fell in love? Too bad, buddy

  • @MikeFuller-ok6ok
    @MikeFuller-ok6ok8 ай бұрын

    The generally accepted truth to all art is that there is no generally accepted truth in all of art.

  • @lindasteger7207
    @lindasteger7207Ай бұрын

    There is a difference between mystery and secrecy

  • @bxbank
    @bxbank2 жыл бұрын

    He's better than Rothko. I love the description John Yau give of PS's relationship to Colette. Sounds exactly like my relationship with my best friend. She is beautiful AND wonderful. :)

  • @robbyrayrab
    @robbyrayrab2 жыл бұрын

    I clicked this cause I thought I was the master of black and white

  • @great-garden-watch
    @great-garden-watch Жыл бұрын

    Btw Lyon does have the best food!

  • @limlin-ps7bh
    @limlin-ps7bh Жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming71198 ай бұрын

    😊.

  • @fattoad2668
    @fattoad2668 Жыл бұрын

    a noir thriller!

  • @jamesanonymous2343
    @jamesanonymous23432 жыл бұрын

    SOULAGES, KANDINSKY, MIRO, POLLOCK, & OTHERS LIKE THEM HAD A VERY NARROW RANGE OF "NOTES" TO PLAY WITH, ON THE OTHER HAND, PICASSO HAD A "FULL OCTAVE" AS HIS "KEYBOARD", AND IT TOOK HIM HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE TO WORK THROUGH THE EIGHT NOTES. I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT CREATIVE GENIOUS,,MONDRIAN

  • @TheStockwell

    @TheStockwell

    10 ай бұрын

    No offense intended, but that's like saying Beethoven was greater than Bach because Beethoven wrote for larger orchestras. Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

  • @rayemartineau8644
    @rayemartineau86442 жыл бұрын

    💓👍👀 3/4/22

  • @stephenlyall7759
    @stephenlyall77592 жыл бұрын

    So refreshing to stare at pitch black canvas’s loaded with tar. Beats that nonsense involving colour which beastly digital has taken to be its own property. Takes me back to well imagination, to the era of tone and monochrome photography, to nostalgia, that land of forbidden fruit, to printmaking…,,

  • @acceptingWhatIS
    @acceptingWhatIS10 ай бұрын

    t e a r s

  • @wenedsday
    @wenedsday2 жыл бұрын

    What a load of bollocks!

  • @CorkBouldering
    @CorkBouldering2 жыл бұрын

    Modern art, watching builders pouring concrete has as much artistry as this art. Yeah sure he is not a God.

  • @solowinterwolf
    @solowinterwolf2 жыл бұрын

    Trust Fiona.

  • @robertaccornero7172
    @robertaccornero71722 жыл бұрын

    I've always found this kind of art is so empty. without endless verbal support by art critics, intellectuals, and art historians, the visuals remain so boring and meaningless . so much said about nothing much at all.

  • @ChrisAcheson

    @ChrisAcheson

    2 жыл бұрын

    And you caught yourself at one point looking at one of his works for some time if not longer than others trying to understand how it was done. Even some of the kids seem to be sensitive and amused by his work and by the live camera, too. It is, so no reason to deny or dismiss it carte blanche. Looks easy but difficult to do. Try it ...

  • @robertaccornero7172

    @robertaccornero7172

    2 жыл бұрын

    try it? I've been painting and creating art since 1960, I've got a B.A. in Art History been a very successful illustrator and art director for over 25 years in NYC, I create art everyday.. so yes I have 'tried it'...It's just my opinion, but this is some seriously boring 'art' , which always FAILS on it's own without the support of psuedo intellectual attempts to make it into some thing which it is not.

  • @KpxUrz5745
    @KpxUrz5745 Жыл бұрын

    Talk talk talk. My bogus art alerts flare on when I hear nonstop blather instead of just showing the art. It’s a big red flag when people talk endlessly, especially those who have money to gain by promoting certain art. I wouldn’t give a nickel for nearly all of what passes for art criticism, and certainly the worst is when the artist is the one flapping their gums. Incidentally I didn’t see much good art here.

  • @timconstable7348

    @timconstable7348

    Жыл бұрын

    You exercise your right to post a comment, and in doing so reveal your ignorance and insensitivity. Many like to reduce their ignorance by learning, hence documentaries such as this. You of course have the choice to remain ignorant. But those who make such a choice are usually already dead inside.

  • @KpxUrz5745

    @KpxUrz5745

    Жыл бұрын

    @@timconstable7348 Alright, you do things YOUR way by buying into this nonsense hook, line, and sinker. Speaking for myself, I have already done a good bit of learning. I have two degrees in this area, including Ivy League. I have won lots of top awards in art. I have studied with a large number of top art professors. I have worked with world-famous artists. I have studied with some of the most knowledgable and prominent art historians. I have shown my own art in many prominent venues including museums. And, my work is represented in many important collections and a growing list of museums. But, I fully realize there is zero point in "credentializing" myself to the Peanut Gallery.

  • @timconstable7348

    @timconstable7348

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KpxUrz5745 Interesting. Let's see some...

  • @twinwankel
    @twinwankel2 жыл бұрын

    I like the textures in the art but I can't say that it's art at all. It's much like the fascination of seeing the mixing of a bucket of paint with multiple colors or looking at the textures on the side of a rocky mountain. I think most 20th and 21th century artists try so hard make the art world notice them that they fail to produce anything remotely artistic. And it's funny what you can pass for art in a gallery if you surround the pieces with blank walls. There's really nothing to compete for your attention. Anyone willing to pay big money for these works is also totally caught up in this artificial art world and has very little idea of what great art really is.

  • @TheStockwell

    @TheStockwell

    10 ай бұрын

    No offense intended, but all you had to say was "This sort of thing doesn't work for me" - and not slam people, collectors, and museums which DO appreciate it. Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

  • @Consrignrant

    @Consrignrant

    6 ай бұрын

    @twinwankel Never fails to at how willing people are to expose their stupidity for all to see. Your "opinion" is worthless. It's your prerogative to like what you want but you are only exposing your ignorance by criticizing something that is highly respected by people who know what they are talking about. Grow up and learn to keep your mouth shut.

  • @geniusmarketing08

    @geniusmarketing08

    5 ай бұрын

    Art is about self expression and how we see the world and how we engage with the world through visual means. Everyone has the right to their own views of what art should be or shouldn’t be but I don’t think it’s fair to slam the life work of an artist just because that’s how they want to communicate in their own individual way. Many artists and non artists do think this is fine art myself included.👍🏻

  • @lumpythefish
    @lumpythefish2 жыл бұрын

    this ain't art.... sorry

  • @PhilChavanne

    @PhilChavanne

    Жыл бұрын

    What is truth?

  • @technicallyfkndifficult8988
    @technicallyfkndifficult8988 Жыл бұрын

    👻 was close then.....

  • @5driedgrams
    @5driedgrams2 жыл бұрын

    Belo trabalho! A análise do astrofísico foi profunda...