Shiraga’s abstract action paintings were born out of struggle. He began the process by placing a mass of paint on top of a canvas on the floor, suspending himself from ropes attached to the ceiling beams, and he proceeded to spread the paint around actively - even violently - with his feet. The opponents in the creative battle were his bare flesh and the material. The tension and strength arose from the struggle between the unconscious power of the body that threatens to jump off the canvas and the conscious power that creates a structure to bring it back inside.

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After the horrors of the Second World War, where the Slovenian artist Zoran Mušič was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp, he married the Venetian artist Ida Cadorin-Barbarigo in 1945. Both artists subsequently went in search of solitude, stillness, for their art. When they moved to Paris, they even lived apart from each other, but met daily. Mušič also met regularly with Alberto Giacometti – when they saw each other, they often shared time in silence.

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In the early fifties Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret set out for an urban planning project in Chandigarh, India, designing and producing low cost buildings for the community. Le Corbusier left the project mid-way and Jeanneret became the Chief Architect and Urban Planning Designer. He stayed in Chandigarh for fifteen years and the city evolved into a landmark of modern architecture.

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