La voie 1962

Jean Miotte made "La voie" with brushes and paint, in a way that lets the stark white paper breathe beneath broad sweeping gestures in black and smaller marks of green and purple. I can feel Miotte thinking through painting—how to make a mark that feels both immediate and inevitable. He makes the painting surface into a site for open-ended inquiry, one gesture leading to the next in a kind of intuitive dance, maybe similar to the automatism of the Surrealists. See how the brushstrokes vary in thickness and intensity, building up layers of texture and color that activate the surface. The green line cuts through the composition, creating a sense of tension and dynamism. The purple block feels intuitive and gestural. I feel like Miotte is in conversation with painters like Franz Kline or even some calligraphic traditions, but he’s finding his own way. Painting is like that, an ongoing exchange of ideas across time. Each artist takes something from the past, transforming it through their own unique experiences and vision, so the painting embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, always allowing for multiple interpretations.