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Mel Wiken

Mel Wiken (Born 1944) is active/lives in Louisiana.  Mel Wiken is known for French Quarter genre and figure scenes, murals, commercial art.

Following is text, published on LiveJournal, from a response Mel Wiken gave to someone who had purchased one of her New Orleans paintings:

I was very interested to see that painting. It was done during a very prolific time, and is one of what I call my "potboilers". Back then there were numerous little galleries around the French Quarter that sold works by local artists, and I enjoyed a great deal of popularity during that time. I sold everything I painted, and I was able to let the creative juices really flow. I did a lot of things off the top of my head, and sometimes would just start painting something and see where it led.....and this is one of those paintings. I probably just painted a background, and then got interested in working on some perspective, hence the brick wall. Then, I probably decided it needed to have a flute player, because I had a friend who played the recorder late into the night and I could hear it from my apartment. The building I lived in was an   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2127 characters.]  Artist bio

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