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Stan Manoukian is a French graphic artist born in 1969 in Paris.

He has had a passion for drawing since his childhood and most of his inspiration comes from retro sci-fi, classic monster movies, as well as the novels of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley and Jules Verne.

In 1988, after he graduated from the Estienne Art School, he started to work in France and the United States as a cartoonist, designer and storyboarder for the movie industry and in advertising.

In 2007, Manoukian issued himself an artistic challenge : draw one monster a day for one year. This larger scale initiative gave birth to the book called « Diary of Inhuman Species », published by Ankama the following year.

Since then, the exploration of his phantasmagoric world pushes him towards bigger and more ambitious projects, testing diverse techniques in both drawings and sculptures.

He belongs to the worldwide generation of post lowbrow artists. With his increasingly detailed contents, abounding with dreamlike creatures, his work harkens to the romantic paintings from the nineteenth century. His menagerie is composed of creatures both extraterrestrial and from the deepest abysses on Earth, thereby transporting the viewer in a fantastic and surrealistic world, where nature is omnipresent.

Heir of Gustave Doré, Franklin Booth, and Bernie Wrightson, Stan Manoukian refines a unique visual scripture through hatching and diming, which employs ink or graphite to mimic an engraving.

Currently, his works are internationally recognized and have been displayed in several exhibitions and books in the USA, Japan, Australia, France and Europe.


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Print, The King, Stan Manoukian

The King

Stan Manoukian

Print - 132 x 72 cm

$1,468

Print, La tribu bleue, Stan Manoukian

La tribu bleue

Stan Manoukian

Print - 65 x 50 cm

$248

Fine Art Drawings, When the owl sing, the night is silence (Esquisse), Stan Manoukian

When the owl sing, the night is silence (Esquisse)

Stan Manoukian

Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 20 cm

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Who is the artist?

Stan Manoukian is a French graphic artist born in 1969 in Paris.

He has had a passion for drawing since his childhood and most of his inspiration comes from retro sci-fi, classic monster movies, as well as the novels of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley and Jules Verne.

In 1988, after he graduated from the Estienne Art School, he started to work in France and the United States as a cartoonist, designer and storyboarder for the movie industry and in advertising.

In 2007, Manoukian issued himself an artistic challenge : draw one monster a day for one year. This larger scale initiative gave birth to the book called « Diary of Inhuman Species », published by Ankama the following year.

Since then, the exploration of his phantasmagoric world pushes him towards bigger and more ambitious projects, testing diverse techniques in both drawings and sculptures.

He belongs to the worldwide generation of post lowbrow artists. With his increasingly detailed contents, abounding with dreamlike creatures, his work harkens to the romantic paintings from the nineteenth century. His menagerie is composed of creatures both extraterrestrial and from the deepest abysses on Earth, thereby transporting the viewer in a fantastic and surrealistic world, where nature is omnipresent.

Heir of Gustave Doré, Franklin Booth, and Bernie Wrightson, Stan Manoukian refines a unique visual scripture through hatching and diming, which employs ink or graphite to mimic an engraving.

Currently, his works are internationally recognized and have been displayed in several exhibitions and books in the USA, Japan, Australia, France and Europe.

What is Stan Manoukian’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Classically-Inspired Illustrative Artists

When was Stan Manoukian born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1969