The vigorous board-marked concrete (beton brut as he called it) was clearly in tune with developments in painting, most obviously the graffiti-inspired art brut of Jean Dubbuffet and the taschisme of Antonio Tapies and others or, at some remove, the dripped canvases of Jackson Pollock or the paint- splattered walls photographed by Aaron Siskind.
Excerpt: pp 216, modernism. by Richard Weston.
