About

Jean Miotte is one of the prominent figures of lyrical abstraction within the New School of
Paris. Since the very beginning, he favored gestures and action to transpose an emotion
testifying of his complex relationship with sensitive reality, a philosophical and spiritual
experience in service of the symbolism of the image. His discourse is borne out of
a semantics where he regards the sign as the “I” who paints: "I am painting" he declares.
His approach tends to two extremes, on the one hand a writing at the height of thought
and sensation, and jointly and exuberant spontaneity until the …