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

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

Two lithographs on vellum paper measuring 50 x 65 cm.
The works are justified 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 the Day of Pentecost. 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 this threshold of exception that leads him from a good painter that he was to an artist whose work bears distinctive marks of its own. Certainly, already his paintings bore his imprint through the use of colors that signaled the author. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows how to marry tones that, handled awkwardly, would become dissonant, whereas under his hand they merely magnify their brilliance. But now, leaving the 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 a technician, that he interprets the contours, nests them within one another. Starting from a path occasionally explored too superficially by Picasso, Claude MANOUKIAN will introduce another type of shapes, becoming a new poem under his brush. 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 that he integrates into the memory of the painting, but without becoming its slave, he composes for art and through art, using reality only as support, as a primitive state that he makes evolve. The look of what he sees is only the reflection of becoming. He uses his memory as a guiding thread, but within himself composes his child born of the senses of his sight and his mood, then inscribes it on his canvas. Just as a newborn is never exactly like one of its parents, this canvas he paints 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 that we call style." Christian GERMAK