Jean Miotte (born Paris 1926) is a French abstract painter, in the style known as L'Art Informel. His work is preserved and studied at the Miotte Foundation.
Miotte came of artistic 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 has been termed art autre, artists such as Shiraga Kasuo, Jean-Paul...
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Jean Miotte (born Paris 1926) is a French abstract painter, in the style known as L'Art Informel. His work is preserved and studied at the Miotte Foundation.
Miotte came of artistic 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 has been termed art autre, artists such as Shiraga Kasuo, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Emil Shumacher, and Miotte championed the individual freedom of the artist as expressed through gestural brushstrokes and thick pools of color. As Miotte has 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 performance, choreography, jazz music, and particularly ballet. In London in 1948 he did set design and saw the work of Balanchine, the Diaghilev Ballet, and Margot Fonteyn. Being...
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