Michael Bedard -Melancholic 3-Star General Under the Stars-Oil Painting

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Michael Bedard -Melancholic 3-Star General under the Stars-Oil painting

American Expressionist - Oil Painting on canvas - Signed -
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American Expressionist - Oil Painting on canvas - Signed -
Canvas size: 24" H x 18" W - Frame: 26x 20"
Artist Biography
Born in 1949 in Toronto, Ontario, and the oldest of five siblings, Michael Bedard grew up in a busy home where his limited exposure to books came from the classics he received from his uncle. After determining in high school to become a writer, influenced by the great poets such as T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson, Bedard studied English and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He graduated with his Bachelor's in 1971, and took up a job as a librarian at St. Michael's College in Toronto. About this same time, he also married and started his family. In 1978, he began work for a small printing shop, and he discovered a publisher for his first two children's books, Woodsedge and Other Tales, and Pipe and Pearls. Holding onto the philosophy that writers should break down and extend boundaries and labels, Bedard's first books baffled and pleased critics with their fairy tale plots and sophiticated tone. Bedard then turned his skills as an author to novels, biographies of other writers, and retellings of famous fairy tales, much to the pleasure and praise of both reviewers and readers. He has won several Canadian book awards, and he continues to write today.
After growing up in Windsor, Ontario, on the U.S.-Canada border, Michael Bedard moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960s and eventually became a popular poster artist. He is best known for his “Sitting Ducks” poster from the late 1970s, a darkly comical image of three ducks sunning themselves poolside with sunglasses and iced tea. One duck, however, has noticed bullet holes in the wall behind him and is curiously studying them. The poster is representative of Bedard’s skill in using humor to highlight personal and social problems. “Sitting Ducks” was inspired by behaviors Bedard witnessed in ducks he was raising at his Topanga Canyon home, as well as by the death of Beatle John Lennon, who in 1980 was shot and killed by former mental patient Mark Chapman. The “Sitting Ducks” poster gave birth to several other projects, including a storybook, a video game, and a television series that aired in some fifty countries. Bedard, who has no formal art training, also won an Emmy Award for his animated film The Santa Claus Brothers. See less