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Simon Hantaï
In 1960, the French Conceptualist painter Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) invented pliage, a method of painting in which he folded, crumpled, tied and trampled upon his canvases before applying pigment to the areas left exposed. Greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock's drip compositions, these works were neither...
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