JEAN MIOTTE
France, 1926-2016
Two abstract compositions. Both signed lower right "Miotte". Housed together in a single frame.
Mixed medias on paper, 11" x 6.5". Framed 21.25" x 27.25".
Notes:
Jean Miotte, born in Paris, worked in the "l'abstraction lyrique" style.

He came of age in war-torn Europe in the decade after World War II, when non-figurative, gestural abstraction was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as the dominant language in contemporary art. Seeking what had been termed "art autre", artists such as Kazuo Shiraga, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Emil Schumacher and Miotte championed artistic freedom as expressed through gestural brushstrokes and thick pools of color. Miotte commented, “My painting is a projection, a succession of acute moments where creation occurs in the midst of spiritual tension and as a result of inner conflicts."

Miotte’s artistic influences include choreography, jazz and, most notably, ballet. While doing set design in London in 1948 he was exposed to Balanchine, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Margot Fonteyn, and he began to experiment with gesture and lyrical movement in painting. Miotte’s lithe, inventive line echoes the art of dance.

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