Author: Guy Michon
Born: 1925
Died: 1979
Bio: 1950 //After his classical studies, Michon enters the field of painting and at that period fraternizes with Paul-Emile Borduas and his "Automatistes" also Ulysse Comtois, Marcelle Ferron, Rita Letendre, Guido Molinari, Robert Roussil, Armand Vaillancourt and others. 1952 // Begins attending the courses of the "Ecole des Beaux -Arts de Montreal" where he works under Jacques de Tonnancour who becomes his master after he leaves the school. 
1958 // Publishes Perds-moi encore, a limited edition book of his poetry. 
1963 // Professeur d'art Commission des Ecoles Catholiques de LaSalle. 
1964 // Dorothy Pfeiffer reviews the Dominion Gallery show "His palette knife seems to prance and paw the thickly painted ground like a nervous thoroughbred; the starting gun signals and he's off! Off to a magnificent finish. Verve, skill, poetry, music, life! All such elements of beauty project themselves from Michon's paintings." 
1966 // The artist's Philosophy as reported in the "Montrealer": "It is pretentious for the artist to attempt to recreate what he sees and feels in the world through himself. The artist must look at the world intensely, but the vision must come from within himself...I look to nature for my inspiration...then try to recreate what I have seen, but this creation is on a second level...not what I see but what I feel...and always reaching for expression beyond the length and breadth of the physical perimeter before me, into the dimension of time...as an artist, I attempt to supersede the limitations of the technical means at my disposal and to answer the challenge that comes from the blank canvas that stares back at me with a spirit of spontaneity and self fulfillment..."
Copyright 2005 Lynda M. Shearer.