"Jean Mingam (1927-1987) - India Ink - 1963"
Large Indian ink on paper on paper by the essential Finisterian artist Jean Mingam.
Signed and dated 1963 lower right.
Dimensions: 65 cm high x 43 cm wide with frame, 49 cm x 27 cm for the bowl, on sight.
In very good shape.
Essential multidisciplinary artist ... sculptor, painter, ceramist, master glassmaker. Jean Mingam had a retrospective at the Museum of Pont-Aven in 1990.
"The one about whom Beaufrère said: "his name will be among the greatest" is an artist apart whose marginal itinerary does not allow classification. above all, a man in search of his truth, an ardent nature that does not support concessions or ease, an extraordinary temperament with its internal contradictions, sometimes painfully experienced.He flees skill and rejects the system that ends by destroying the artist; if the man makes the work, the work chooses its man, he affirms. The study of sculpture gave him the sense of volume, of composition; he has the accustomed to submitting to the constraint of the material and the slow maturation necessary for the elaboration of the outline suits his taste for contemplation.Colour, on the other hand, he works on instinct when he seeks to impulsively translate the feelings he feels.With the line which is purified, and the color posed by spontaneous keys, the work tends to the stripping. This bias leads to a stylization that allows him to express his emotions with force. On the white background, he places a few colored spots with a knife that will support the subject, balance it, he works widely, harmonizing the vibration of the tones, specifying the subject and stopping as soon as the whole is enough to suggest the image that he wants to impose, the sensation that emerges. Inner peace of a magnificat or disfigured masks of violence, his creation is bubbling with life, a search for a balance between spirituality and humanity as evidenced by his double faces, with one side open and the other closed. Prophet in a materialistic world, it is with his own substance that he creates, it is with his spirit and his heart torn, crushed in the discovery of the truth, that he shatters matter. Jean Mingam chose synthesis to transpose reality and participate in creation because this artist is first of all a being rooted in God, present everywhere in the work. His vision combines the mystical with the sensual with a love of volumes and warm colors, expressing in turn rage for life or despair, concern or serenity."
1990 - Catherine Puget (Former Curator of the Museum of Pont-Aven)
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