Jean Miotte, (b.1926) came of artistic age in the decade after World War II when non-figurative gestural abstraction was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as the contemporary artistic language.
… And several retrospective exhibitions for which I create…. completely new paintings, I do not like retrospectives: Geneva in Switzerland, St. Tropez and St. Paul-de-Vence in the South of France, the Museo Fundacio Cristobal Gabarrón in Valladolid, Spain and the Musée des Beaux Arts of Ostende in Belgium. For my eightieth birthday the Chelsea Art Museum starts to prepare an exhibition, perhaps with choreographic elements, who knows. After all, the American writer Chester Himes dedicated an opera to me.