Claude Manoukian (1936) - Promenade en campagne

Claude Manoukian (1936- ) - Promenade en campagne

Lithography on Japanese paper measuring 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 lightning strike, or like the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. One can 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 exceptional threshold that carries him from a good painter to an artist whose work has its own distinctive marks. Certainly, his paintings already bore his imprint through the use of colors that signed his author. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows how to combine tones that, if mishandled, would become dissonant, whereas with him they merely magnify their brilliance. But now, leaving behind rigid figuration, Claude MANOUKIAN decomposes and recomposes forms, and integrates into his work an additional dimension. It is with audacity, yet with the certainty of a technician, that he interprets contours, interlaces them. Departing sometimes from a path too superficially explored by Picasso, 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, drawing from them new expressions. Exaltation of color, soaring above reality which he integrates into the memory of the painting, but without becoming its slave, he composes for art and by art, using reality only as a support, as a primitive state that he evolves. The gaze of what he sees is only a reflection of what is to come. He uses his memory as a guiding thread, but within him he composes his child born of the senses of sight and mood, then inscribes it on his canvas. Just as a newborn is never entirely like either parent, this painting he creates will draw its source from one of its elements, which may dominate, certainly, but will always remain to some extent under the influence of the other. Each canvas will be the journey toward the fulfillment of a whole and the expression of an aesthetic that differentiates each work while preserving a shared sense we call style." Christian GERMAK