Jean MIOTTE
(1926-2016)
The choreographer of abstraction
“I don’t paint a subject. I paint a moment of the mind.”
Why is it fascinating?
He is the artist of pure movement. He made gesture a language, a dialogue between line and matter.
His painting seems to dance: fluid, organic, without beginning or end. It is a suspended movement, frozen in the canvas as in the moment.
Miotte captures the moment, the exact moment when the line becomes emotion. The arm moves, the color springs forth, the form emerges. An intuitive, expressive, direct painting.
A very contemporary work
A living painting that evokes contemporary dance, performance, and the performing arts.
We see links with street art and instinctive tagging. It opens a bridge between the abstraction of the past and the pulse of today.
A painting that refuses to be confined to a movement. Miotte wants her own path.
A painting that approaches a meditative art with an immediate and emotional visual language.
Why is it presented here?
Because Miotte offers a sensitive, readable, accessible abstraction without being simplistic.
Because he embodies the elegance of pure gesture, he is the painter of momentum.
Because it has been very successful in the United States, notably thanks to the Miotte Foundation in New York, and in Germany, its popularity remains accessible with great future potential linked to the return of large gestures.
Because it is present in the great museums of the world, because it is a reference of lyrical abstraction.
Where to see it?
- Miotte Foundation, New York
- Pompidou Center, Paris
- Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
- Museum of Grenoble
- Guggenheim, New York