Claude Manoukian (1936) - Promenade en campagne

Claude Manoukian (1936- ) - Promenade en campagne

Lithography on vellum paper of a size 37.5 x 53 cm. The work is numbered and signed in pencil by the artist.

Work in very good condition, never framed.

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Claude MANOUKIAN is a painter born in 1936. “There are crossroads in a painter’s life that are hard to explain, except that suddenly a good painting becomes an exceptional painting. It happens like a lightning strike, or like the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. One can also say, more modestly, that it happens like Van Gogh’s transformation, from a modest draftsman into a genius of art. Claude MANOUKIAN has just crossed that exceptional threshold that leads him from a good painter he was to an artist whose work bears marks that are his own. Certainly, his paintings already bore his imprint, through the use of colors that signed his authorship. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows how to pair tones that, if wielded ineptly, would become discordant, whereas through him they only magnify their glow. But now, leaving rigorous figuration, Claude MANOUKIAN decomposes and recomposes forms, and integrates into his work an additional dimension. It is with audacity, but with the certainty of a technician, that he interprets the outlines, nests them into one another. It is starting from a path sometimes explored too superficially by Picasso that Claude MANOUKIAN will introduce another type of shapes, becoming a new poem under his brush. As different as Racine, Corneille or Victor Hugo may be from Verlaine or Rimbaud, though all write in verse, Claude MANOUKIAN will flirt with other modes of painting, and draw from them new expressions. Exaltation of colors, soaring beyond reality and integrating it into the memory of the painting, but not enslaved by it, he composes for art and through art, using reality only as a support, as a primitive state that he makes evolve. The gaze of what he sees is only the reflection of what is to come. He uses his memory as a guiding thread, but composes within himself his child born from the senses of sight and mood, and then inscribes it on his canvas. Like a newborn who is never exactly like either parent, this canvas he paints will find its source in one of its elements, which may sometimes dominate, certainly, but will always remain, in part, under the influence of the other. Each canvas will be the path toward the fulfillment of a whole and the expression of an aesthetic that differentiates each work while preserving a common sense that we call style." Christian GERMAK