Claude Manoukian (1936) - Promenade en campagne

Claude Manoukian (1936-) - Walk in the countryside

Lithograph on vellum paper with a format of 37. 5 x 53 cm.
The work is numbered and signed in pencil by the artist.

Work in good condition, having never been framed.

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Claude MANOUKIAN is a painter born in 1936. "There are turning points in the life of a painter that are difficult to explain, except that suddenly a good painting becomes an exceptional painting. This happens like a thunderbolt, or like the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. We can also say, more modestly, that it happens like the transformation of Van Gogh who, from a modest designer, became a genius of art. Claude MANOUKIAN has just taken this exceptional step which leads him from the good painter that he was, to an artist whose work finds marks of his own. Certainly, his paintings already bore his imprint, for example the use of colors which signed its author. Like Odilon Redon Claude MANOUKIAN knows very well how to marry tones which, handled in an unskillful way would become dissonant, while through him they only magnify their brilliance. But now leaving the rigorous figurative, Claude MANOUKIAN breaks down and recomposes shapes, and integrates an additional dimension into his work. It is with audacity, but with the certainty of the technician, that he interprets the contours, embedding them one within the other. It is by sometimes starting from a path explored too superficially by Picasso that Claude MANOUKIAN will introduce another type of form, which has become a new poem under his brush. As different as Racine, Corneille or Victor Hugo can be from Verlaine or Rimbaud, although they all write in verse, Claude MANOUKIAN will flirt with other modes of painting, and will extract new expressions from them. Exaltation of colors, flying over the reality that he integrates into the memory of the painting, but without being a slave to it, he composes for art and through art, using reality only as a support, as a primitive state that he creates. evolve. The look of what he sees is only the reflection of becoming. He uses his memory as a guide, but composes within himself his child coming from the senses of his sight, and his mood then inscribes it on his canvas. As a newborn is never entirely similar to one of his parents, this canvas that he paints will find its source at the bottom of one of his elements, which sometimes can dominate, of course, but which will always remain for a leaves under the influence of the other. Each canvas will be the journey towards the accomplishment of a whole and the expression of an aesthetic which differentiates each work while retaining a common sense which we call style. " Christian GERMAK