Can the snow be painted with black ink ? Take a look at "The Story Behind : Pierre Soulages"
A young boy was spreading black ink on white paper. when he was asked what he was drawing, he answered “snow”. This young boy later grew to be one of the most famous French artists Pierre Soulages known as the Master of Black. Soulages throughout his career experimented and explored the intensity and transparencies of black. This can be seen in this works from 1973 from his walnut stain series, an innovative technique that allowed him to explore intensity but also bring out contrast an important step before the creation of his “Outrenoir” series. A monochromatic series, where black would serve as a base for light as it was never about the black itself but always about light quite like the light of snow brought out by contrasting it by ink when he was a boy.
