"Jean Miotte: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
The Chelsea Art Museum
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Born in 1926, Jean Miotte began exhibiting in 1952 and continues to this day. As one of the important protagonists of Art Informel, his work is inspired by the desire of the postwar generation to create a universal human language in art, a path to peace after the horrors of war. Miotte’s seminal influences include Jazz but especially dance. In London in 1948 he did set design and saw the work of Balanchine, the Diaghilev Ballet, and the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. Gestural painting can evoke the hand of the Samurai or the surgeon, but Miotte’s lithe, inventive line echoes the living art of dance.
[Image: Jean Miotte "Instant ébloui" (1979) Acrylic on canvas 162 x 130 cm.]
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from November 08, 2008 to February 07, 2009