“In fact; when painting is dying; it is always a certain painting which dies. Thus; when the four members of the BMPT (Daniel Buren; Olivier Mosset; Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni) affirm "We are not painters" during their first "Manifestation"; on January 3; 1967; within the framework of the young painting salon ; and; associating the gesture with the words; unhook their paintings; it is the death of the painting "à la papa"; where the canvas is soaked to the point of dripping with sentimentality. The four no longer want this; this sentimentality; this pretension of the painter to put his pathos before the life of the medium himself. They will take up the arms of radicalism and intransigence to get rid of it. History proved them right for a time; by loving their way of conceiving painting as a dead thing; that is to say without qualms. Then things change; tastes; fashions; moods ... Painting is a phoenix. "Judicaël Lavrador.