Claude Manoukian (1936) - Bouquet de fleurs

Claude Manoukian (1936- ) - Bouquet of Flowers.

Lithograph on velin paper with a size of 65 x 48 cm.
The work is EA (artist's proof) and signed in pencil.

Artwork in good condition, never been framed.

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Claude MANOUKIAN is a painter born in 1936. "There are turning points in a painter's life that are hard to explain, except that suddenly a good painting becomes an exceptional painting. It happens like a bolt of lightning, or like the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. One can also say, more modestly, that it is like the transformation of Van Gogh who, from a modest draftsman, became a genius of art. Claude MANOUKIAN has just crossed that exceptional threshold that leads him from being a good painter 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 author. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows how to marry tones which, if handled poorly, would become dissonant, whereas by him they only magnify their radiance. But now, leaving the rigorous figurative, 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 contours, nests them within one another. It is starting from a path sometimes explored too superficially by Picasso, that Claude MANOUKIAN will introduce another type of forms, become a new poem under his brush. As different as Racine, Corneille or Victor Hugo can be from Verlaine or Rimbaud, although all write in verse, Claude MANOUKIAN will flirt with other modes of painting, and will derive from them new expressions. Exaltation of colors, hovering over reality which he integrates into the memory of the painting, but without being its slave, he composes for art and by art, using reality only as support, as a primitive state that he evolves. 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 of the senses of his sight, and of his mood, then inscribes it on his canvas. Just as a newborn is never entirely like either parent, this painting he creates will find its source in the depths of one of its elements, which may sometimes dominate, certainly, but will always remain, to some extent, under the influence of the other. Each canvas will be the path toward the fulfillment of a whole and the expression of an aesthetics that differentiates each work while preserving a common sense called style." Christian GERMAK