Michael klein artist biography

Born in 1980, Michael Klein was nineteen when he began his serious training in classical ateliers and workshops.
Michael Klein (born January 23, 1952) is an artist's agent and freelance consultant and curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations, writer.
Contemporary Realism Artist Michael Klein: “I have become profoundly aware of the importance of understanding myself and my art in relation to God.”.

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Michael Klein Gallery

Michael Klein “Hewing faithfully to the Renaissance and French academic traditions, Michael Klein is among the vanguard of contemporary painters working to rekindle classical art. The North Dakota native attended a string of ateliers and workshops in the Midwest before finishing his studies at the Water Street Atelier in New York City in 2005, training his eye on painting still lifes and the figure from life. Although he devotes most of his attention to floral still lifes these days, Klein is equally proficient at painting portraits. Last year, in fact, he snapped up the grand prize in the Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition for NYC Entrepreneur, in which he captures a friend’s business-driven resolve.

Today Klein lives in Raleigh, NC, where he paints, teaches workshops, and enjoys the robust art community, mild clime, and abundant local flora for inspiration. He also travels with his wife to her hometown in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he maintains a second studio surrounded by similarly lush environs. Both locations suit Kle

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Michael Klein

Michael Klein Biography

Michael Klein is part of a group of American artists leading the revival of representational painting hearkening back to the Renaissance and French Academic traditions. Klein had two major solo exhibitions in New York City in 2008 and 2010. He also participated in the American Chinese Oil Painting Artist League (ACOPAL) a prestigious exhibition that traveled through China hitting five major cities including Beijing's World Art Museum. He and his wife started American Painting Video Magazine in 2010, an online video production which has been viewed in over 130 countries throughout the world. His work has been published in numerous magazines such as Fine Art Connoisseur, American Artist Magazine and American Arts Quarterly.

Born in 1980, Michael Klein was nineteen when he began his serious training in classical ateliers and workshops. His first teacher was Richard Whitney. One of New Hampshire's most prominent portrait painters, and a pupil to the teaching of R.H. Ives Gammell of the Boston School Tradition. A

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Contemporary Realism Artist Michael Klein: “I have become profoundly aware of the importance of understanding myself and my art in relation to God.”

Standing Before Creation

by Michael Klein

There is nothing more misguided than the belief that the only created order in the universe is that of man.

After returning to New York from a three-and-a-half-year sojourn abroad, I realized the profound impact beauty has on our lives. On our property in Buenos Aires there are two small houses and a large artist’s studio. While in Argentina, my daily routine consisted of waking up in the morning and walking through a beautiful rose-filled garden. Being back in the states, I now wake up to the reality of city life—very little fresh air, no vegetation other than a couple of trees planted for aesthetic reasons, and a lot of noise as people rush to work. The reason I mention this contrast is because beauty is crucial to understanding nature, and therefore, art.

“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” John Keats’ ninete