Pierre Soulages
Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages is a French painter, engraver and sculptor. In 2014, French President François Hollande described it as "the greatest living artist in the world". His works are held by the main museums in the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez.soulages is known as "the painter of black", because of his interest in color "at the same time as a color and as a non-color. When the light is reflected on the black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field which is its own ". He considered light as a working material; The streaks of the black surface of its paintings allow it to reflect light, which allows black to get out of the dark and to enter clarity, thus becoming a light color. Romane of the abbey church of Sainte-Foy in Conques from 1987 to 1994. He received international awards, and the Louvre in Paris organized a retrospective of his works during his centenary.