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Show ' t ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW , Salt Lake County , Utah " Thursday, May 14, 1964 Page 10 yp XZXZ I y &i T'- V- cy" "'57" ri r r Precidus And Use r Elaine S. Michelsen -- j Semi-Precio- vwr&m. tat- Stones and Pearls In My us - ) 1 Paintings For Color And Texture, Artificial Stones Wont Do t Thats why weve opened our nw office narrow road off Dowa Holladay Boulevard lives the only known artist In the world whose paintings glitter In gold neighborhood headquarters for service for all our Farmers Insurance Group policyholders in the community. Were fully staffed to provide you with the FAST, FAIR, FRIENDLY service for which Farmers is famous. Call when you need help with any of your insurance problems. And next time youre nearby drop in and let us meet you personally. John and jewels. She Is Elaine S. Michelsen, 5678 Holladay Boulevard: noted contemporary classicist, world traveler and edu-- 1 cator. Mrs. Michelsen developed her bejeweled style of painting In Greece In 1957 and to her knowledge It Is unique. ' "I use precious and semiprecious stones and pearls In my paintings for color and she said. texture accents, Artificial Jewels Just wont do. I also Incorporate 22 and 24 carat gold leaf as background In my works. I hunt for She continued, my materials all over the world and use them for special additions. I get most of my Jewels from Ceylon, pearls from Japan and opal from Mexico and Australia. I also use jade, aquamarine rock crystal, tlgereye and Chamberlain H. Dirt. Mgr. (We Are Now Appointing Agents) 3689 Highland Drive t Phone 486-71- 63 FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP Aim) LIF- E- t. HOME FIRE hand-beat- COMMERCIAL TRUCK Miff-tr en Ceylon, India, Singapore Italy and Egypt, Greece, Francs. During this period she completed a series of 45 paintings The Golden Ages of titled, an Art, experiment Into what made great cultures great. While In Egypt she worked with creativity In childrens art under that countrys Ministry of Culture. For her work on this project she received a letter of appreciation from President Gamal Abdel Na- In 1957, she represented the from the University of Utah, West as a United States delmajoring In art. She continued egate to the International Conher graduate studies In art al the University of Paris and gress of Education through Art In the Hague. the International Academy of Mrs. Michelsen has exhiArt In Salzburg, Austria. She bited her paintings in London was professor of art and and Salzburg and, In the U.S., chairman of the Art Department at Westminister College -- in San Francisco, San Jose and Walnut Creek, California, from 1950 to 1960. ,r-- KjS Sf !' ' sser. stitute NATIVE UTAHN ' CREATIVITY Children's sizes 5 to 12 . Junior sizes iS Jx. PROMOTES ARTIST AND COLLECTOR Elaine S Michelsen displays her Sacred Deer of Japan painting. Eighteenth dynasty coral from Egypt and turquoise from Arizona have been added to the painting as special additions. Below, Mrs Michelsen exhibits a few of her many ancTent objects of art. Left to right a Shiba from New Delhi, India; Egyptian pottery; 26th dynasty Egyptian Isis, prize-winniJapanese Fu, beads found in the Valley of the Kings; 150 B C m Egyptian death mask; Florentine painting from 15th dynasty s ng ' sr-- throughout the world, studying and doing research on creativity In 1960 she visited Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, i SOUND ADVICE ar- aT 'OV- - you have something to say. If youre working to get some sort of notoriety' its a false art. Most want to paint tc amaze themselves. Prizes often Impede art... to paint to win prizes Is Just a lot of nonsense ANTIQUITY her many trips During abroad, Mrs. Michelsen has collected many objects of an clent art. Her antiques Include artsYrom many ancient civilizations. I use my antiques ... I dont hold them as mementos or curios. I never buy souven-ior- s, only works of art. But I enjoy modern things as much as antiques. Her future plans Include a one-mShow In June In the City Hall in Costa Mesa, California, and .an art worksho; in San Jose, California, In July. My exhibit In California ab will feature about 40 new jai . ste tings. Ive been working on them all sj. ring She is the mother of three children. Dr. Walter J Michelsen Jr. is a surgeon In New York; Jerry E. Michelsen Is a Salt Lake producer atKCPT-TV- , and daughter, Mrs. S M Oberg, lives In Costa Mesa, California an AREA ART For the past four years Mrs. Michelsen has sponsored the .Michelsen Award for creativity at Granite High School. I select the painting that may no be best, but, in my opinion, Is the one with the most creative potential, she stated. She added, The Granite School District is doing the best and a most remarkable job of fostering art. Its too bad other districts dont offer help In this field. The Fine Arts Festival they had was really something. STARTED YOUNG When asked how long advice to aspiring On tists, she counsels, Not to paint to sell but paint when and 1960. She has traveled extensively $450 1214 to 3 to She was elected to the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters In 1961 and did a local television series on Creativity In the Arts that year. Her name was Included in the 1957 edition of the Directory of American Scholars and In Whos Who In American Education In 19 5 9 , AROUND THE WORLD $395 . A as IN WHOS WHO Up until the Renaissance have finished six pain- I She frequently donates her paintings to charity and to museums. She-Jjgiven five works to the U. of U. Her latest gift was donated last week to the Garden Center In Sugar House Park, titled "Gifts of the Redman. state. greatness. We have 'em . . . Keds for all the kids from tots to teens. And in the colors Blue, Red, White. they all want weeks tings. do murals for the Del Webb Building In Phoenix, Arizona, the construction largest company In the world- - In the main lobby she painted a 10 x 17 mural depicting on a backthe prehisground of gold-le- af toric and early history of Arizona. She also completed eight murals for various offices In the building. I did research for this project at the Utah State U. and the University of Arizona for two months and the actual painting was accomplished in four months, Mrs. Michelsen I said. . I get letters from all over the world from people who have seen the murals, she and many thousands added, of people visit the building Just to see them. Utah businessmen should see the value in sponsoring local artists and their products Instead of having them work out of Mrs. Mlchelsens paintings give the feeling of abstract modern but are done with the Creatclassical approach. ivity Is bounded up In knowing ones self, she reflected. It deals more closely with Inner experiences. The way I feel on life and nature compares to the oriental apprbach ... the world of feeling and experiencing nature rather than representing It. Much of the modern art Is on the surface and lacks the content of outer and materialistic, painting lost contact with the Inner self. Mrs. Michelsen forecast that In the next 10 years man will be trying to find his way back to the Inner relationship to nature and will not pay much attention to the materialistic In all forms of art. We chase the unreal world of what should be Instead of facing life the way It is, she commented mood. She averages about two paintings a month. When I feel really creative I Really move.. In the last two the Salt Lake artist was commissioned to express sublime attitudes. ophy became creative In 1959. Last year She stated that although her process Is unparalleled today, the use of jewels and gold leaf goes back to .anclent Egypt when artists knew the luminous qualities of stones and gems and ground these into Its based on pigments. when artists used antiquity artists painted with this Inner feeling but when mans philos- I MURALS IN ARIZONA. native Mrs. Utahn, Michelsen was born In Fillmore, Utah. She received her bachelor of science degree A ANCIENT IDEA COTTONWOOD was painting posters In the second grade. Mrs. Michelsen says she usually paints from eight to nine hours a day .. If In a Kansas City, Kansas, West-po- rt Connecticut and Washington, D.C. Two years ago she exhibited her works at the University of Utah. tn July, 1962, she held art workshops in Berkeley and Los Gatos, California. She lectured and had a showing of her paintings for the North Atlantic Conference of the National Pen Women In New York City In March, 1963. She won the Pen Women Award at the Smithsonian In- Tree Presented To Skyline High By Students School been painting, she smiled and said, just about all my life. at Skvline participated In a High c 1 ! tret planting program Tuesday, April 28, when members of the Mount Olympus Garden Club presented a Scots Pine to the school Mrs Alfred A Willett, club project chairman, coordinated the shes Garden (Hub program. the Receiving tree from Mrs. R M Savage, president, was Henry Mil faculty representative lie-to- Student Cast ,sw - Skyline Drama Group Presents Isben Play 1 m mi-nMmum- P7 r'Y ' By VICKY RAGSDALE UsNLu 1 Wt; j ' "if' VY .w1 The Skyline High School drama department presented Henrick Ibsens Peer Gynt over the past weekend. The morality play, based on mans eternal search to find him self, drew excellent crowds. 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