Claude Manoukian (1936) - Lot de 2 lithographies: Les champs

Claude Manoukian (1936- ) - Set of 2 lithographs: The fields

2 Lithographs on vellum paper measuring 50 x 65 cm.
The works are numbered and signed in pencil by the artist.

Works in good condition, never 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 lightning strike, or like the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Day. One could also say, more modestly, that it happens like Van Gogh transforming from a modest draftsman into an artistic genius. Claude MANOUKIAN has just crossed this exceptional threshold that leads him from being a good painter to an artist whose work bears its own distinctive signs. Certainly, his paintings already bore his imprint, by the use of colors that signed his authorship. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows how to beautifully marry tones which, if handled awkwardly, would become dissonant, whereas for him they merely magnify their brilliance. But now, leaving strict figuration, Claude MANOUKIAN decomposes and recomposes forms, and integrates into his work an additional dimension. It is with audacity, but with the certainty of the technician, that he interprets contours, interlocks them with one another. Starting from a path explored too superficially by Picasso, Claude MANOUKIAN will introduce another type of shapes, which has become 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 extract from them new expressions. Exaltation of colors, soaring above reality that he integrates 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 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 his mood, and then inscribes it on his canvas. Just as a newborn is never exactly 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 for a part 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 we call style." Christian GERMAK