Voids of Matisse

Henry Matisse

MET

"The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive, the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share."

Breathing Paintings - Voids of Simon Hantai

Pliages

of

Simon Hantai

When Hantai unfettered the plied canvases from bondage and freed them to breathe, they revealed unexpected images of patterns and surprising arbitrary shapes...

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Voids of Simon Hantai

Meuns 

of

Simon Hantai

Contrast between painted and nonpainted -

presence and absence...