Claude Manoukian (1936) - Promenade en campagne

Claude Manoukian (1936- ) - Promenade en campagne

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

Work 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 lightning strike, or like the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Day. One could also say, more modestly, that it happens 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 a good painter to an artist whose work bears marks that are his own. Certainly, already his paintings bore his imprint, through the use of colors that signed his author. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows how to marry tones that, used clumsily, would become dissonant, whereas through him they merely magnify their brilliance. 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, embeds them within each other. 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 beneath his brush. As different as Racine, Corneille or Victor Hugo may be from Verlaine or Rimbaud, although all write in verse, Claude MANOUKIAN will flirt with other modes of painting, and will extract from them new expressions. Exaltation of colors, soaring over reality that he integrates into the memory of the painting, but without being enslaved by it, he composes for art and through art, using reality only as support, as a primitive state that he makes evolve. The look at 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, and then inscribes it on his canvas. Just as a newborn is never entirely like either parent, this canvas he paints will find its source in the depth of 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 aesthetics that differentiates each work while preserving a common sense we call style." Christian GERMAK