Claude Manoukian (1936) - Promenade en campagne

Claude Manoukian (1936- ) - Promenade en campagne

Lithographie on papier japon of a format 37.5 x 53 cm.
The work is numbered and signed in pencil by the artist.

Work 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 bolt of lightning, or like the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. One can also say, more modestly, that it happens like Van Gogh's transformation, who, from a modest draftsman, became a genius of art. Claude MANOUKIAN has just crossed this exceptional threshold that leads him from a good painter he was to an artist whose work bears marks that are his own. Indeed, already his paintings bore his imprint, by the use of colors that signed his author. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows very well how to marry tones that, mishandled, would become dissonant, whereas in him they only magnify their brilliance. But now, leaving the rigorous figuration, Claude MANOUKIAN decomposes and recomposes the forms, and integrates into his work an additional dimension. It is with audacity, but with the technician's certainty, that he interprets the contours, nestling them into one another. It is sometimes starting from a path of development explored too superficially by Picasso that Claude MANOUKIAN will introduce another type of forms, a new poem under his brush. As different as Racine, Corneille, or Victor Hugo can be from Verlaine or Rimbaud, though all write in verse, Claude MANOUKIAN will flirt with other modes of painting, and will derive from them new expressions. Exaltation of colors, soaring above reality which he integrates into the memory of the painting, but not enslaved by it, he composes for art and by art, using reality only as a 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 he composes within himself his child born of the senses of his sight, and of his mood, then inscribes it on his canvas. Like a newborn is never entirely similar to 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 which will always remain to some extent under the influence of the other. Each canvas will be the journey toward the accomplishment of a whole and the expression of an aesthetics that differentiates each work while preserving a common sense we call style." Christian GERMAK