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Mick Micheyl was born during the "Année folles"
at LYONS, FRANCE. She studied at the Art School in this town, where she
won First Prizes.
In 1950, she went to try her luck in PARIS
with some pictures under her arm. But, nobody was interested. So, she
decided to go on the boards and sing songs she had been writting and
setting to music for years for fun. She was a huge success. She hit the
stars - Musichall galas, the Grand Prix for recordings, the Casino de
Paris ! The 'Gamin de Paris" went round the world.
All during
these 22 years of stardom, she kept up her painting, experimenting with
materials to find her own technique and self expression : Finally, she
opted for stainless steel as a material an electric grinding and
polishing machine for a tool.
1973 saw her ready for her first
exhibition. To everybody's surprise, she stopped all her tours and T.V.
shows and gave herself up entirely to her vocation for the graphic
arts. "I draw with light. I try to express life and movement. The
movement of a man running or the movement in time of a forest as it
changes from hour throughout the day" |