{"id":984,"date":"2008-10-12T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/10\/simon-hantai-gone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T22:14:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T05:14:37","slug":"simon-hantai-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/12\/simon-hantai-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Hanta\u00ef Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Simon Hanta\u00ef, Painter of Silences, Dies at 85<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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By\u00a0MARGALIT FOX<\/a><\/p>\n

Simon Hanta\u00ef, a highly regarded, famously reclusive French painter whose work explored ideas of absence and silence \u2014 and who took those ideas so seriously that he disappeared completely from view for 15 very productive years \u2014 died on Sept. 11 at his home in Paris. He was 85.<\/p>\n

\"hantai.png\"<\/a><\/span>The death was confirmed by a friend, Paul Rodgers, owner of the Paul Rodgers\/9W Gallery in Manhattan. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, Mr. Hanta\u00ef died in his sleep.<\/p>\n

Born in Hungary, Mr. Hanta\u00ef was a major figure in European art from the 1950s onward. He was known in particular for abstract, often huge canvases that crackled with bold, saturated color punctuated by unfilled areas of pure white. Their singular appearance resulted from a method of folding and tying the canvas before applying paint, a process known as pliage, which Mr. Hanta\u00ef developed in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

He was also known for his long, self-imposed retreat from the public arena in the 1980s and \u201990s. In 1999, the magazine Art in America described this absence as stemming from \u201ca streak of ethical obstinacy virtually unparalleled in contemporary art.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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