Claude Manoukian (1936) - Promenade en campagne

Claude Manoukian (1936- ) - Promenade en campagne

Lithograph 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 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 thunderbolt, or like the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Day. 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 the good painter he was to an artist whose work has his own distinctive signs. Certainly, his paintings already bore his imprint, through the use of colors that signaled the author's hand. Like Odilon Redon, Claude MANOUKIAN knows very well how to pair tones that, if mishandled, would become dissonant, whereas for him they only magnify their brilliance. But now, leaving rigid figuration behind, Claude MANOUKIAN decomposes and recomposes forms, and integrates into his work an additional dimension. It is with audacity, but with the technician's certainty, that he interprets the contours, nests them within one another. Starting from a path sometimes explored too superficially by Picasso, Claude MANOUKIAN will introduce another type of shapes, become a new poem under his brush. As different as Racine, Corneille or Victor Hugo can be from Verlaine or Rimbaud, although all write in verse, Claude MANOUKIAN will flirt with other modes of painting, and will derive from them new expressions. Exaltation of colors, hovering 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 makes evolve. The gaze of what he sees is only the reflection of becoming. 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 onto his canvas. Just as a newborn is never exactly like either parent, 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 journey toward the accomplishment of a whole and the expression of an aesthetics that differentiates each work while preserving a common sense that we call style." Christian GERMAK