MIOTTE
(1926
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Original hand-signed lithograph in colours.
LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED: 100/150
SIZE OF THE ILLUSTRATION: 75 X 56 cm
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INFORMATION on this Artwork
Jean
Miotte, came of artistic age in the decade after World War II when
non-figurative gestural abstraction was emerging on as the contemporary
artistic language.
“L’Art Informel” to connote “without form”
which Miotte is one of the leader, claimes an individual freedom embodied
in the spontaneity of the gestural brushstroke. Miotte developed a
vocabulary of bold, quasi-calligraphic markings whose vaulting, liquid
jets and arcs of paint were at once suggestive of the body in motion
while at the same time denying corporality. He uses bold brushstrokes
to create paintings that seem to jump with tension and excitement.
Of prime importance for Miotte was the aspiration for this gestural,
abstract language to create a bridge between cultures, to break beyond
national barriers of geography or expression to form a truly international
language.
The power and transcultural appeal of this painting was soon seen
in its international reception. Miotte was invited to exhibit throughout
Europe, America, the near and far East long before the concept of
globalization was current in artistic terms.
Miotte says of his work: “My painting is a projection, a succession
of acute moments where creation occurs in the midst of spiritual tension
as the result of inner conflicts. Painting is not a speculation of
the mind or spirit; it’s a gesture from within.”
