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CHAR MICHELSON
American
Char Michelson is a classic on-site
painter with influences filtered down from the French Fauves. She paints
with the vision, color and verve of such painters as Van Gogh, Vlaminck
and Derain.
She was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1944 and attended the University of
Kansas where she graduated with a BA in Design and a Minor in Advertising.
She spent most of her life traveling and has lived in Europe and in many
states in America. After raising their two children, J.T. and Sam, she
became an Art Director at an advertising agency in Atlanta, GA. In 1992,
after a move to the beautiful central coast of California, she began her
lifelong ambition to become an oil painter, painting scenes all along
the central coast, from Carmel to Huntington Beach. She now lives and
paints in Austin, Texas.
Her paintings grace the homes of many collectors worldwide. She has won
many awards for her oil paintings, some of which include the 23rd Annual
Faber Birren National Color Award Show, 38th Annual Open National Exhibition
of the San Bernardino County Museum, Landscape, International Exhibition,
Bold Expressions, 46th Annual International Exhibition.
Michelson paints powerfully, using thick vivid strokes, depicting each
scene in wild and beautiful color, with only a suggestion of reality.
Ms. Michelson seeks out nostalgic scenes using arbitrary colors, rhythm,
and vibration.
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