Jazz, Large Oil On Canvas By Raymond Moretti,1963

Jazz, 1963 – Monumental oil on canvas from the series Les cris du monde
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
Dimensions: 300 x 200 cm
Original canvas
Provenance: Les cris du monde series (12 paintings  exhibited in Paris in 1965)

This spectacular work by Raymond Moretti, entitled Jazz, is a very large oil painting created in 1963. It belongs to the manifesto series “Les cris du monde”, a cycle composed of twelve canvases exhibited in Paris in 1965, where Moretti explores the forces of modernity, revolt, music, words and color in a plastic language that is both committed and jubilant. Here the vertical composition is organized around a vibrant central axis, a veritable column of sounds and colors. Stylized human silhouettes evoke a group of musicians in a burst of light, shapes, and energy, while the background is articulated in abstract colored planes, like so many visual and sound registers.
We fully recognize Moretti's singular language, mixing geometric abstraction, stylized figuration, and graphic calligraphy. Raymond Moretti is the author of a polymorphic body of work: engraver, painter, sculptor, he has marked the French urban landscape with monumental creations, notably at La Défense (1000 m² fresco in 1973) and at the Forum'des Halles where we can see a 200 m² fresco. La Defense just acquired a Monumental sculpture entitled Le Monstre from Madame Moretti at the beginning of June, which once restored will be exhibited under the slab.