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First Person
Portrait
of an Artist as a New Man in Town
By Merle Weiss
There’s a new guy in town, an accomplished artist and major heartthrob who
is destined to knock South Florida on its tropical ear.
Perry Milou recently emigrated from the City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia)
to try his luck at creating a new career and an even bigger buzz in Miami than
he did in his hometown, which was quite substantial.
Milou began tiring of city life in the nation’s northeast, and of running
his enormous gallery. Despite an illustrious art education at the University of
Arizona and a plethora of major accomplishments and accolades from 2005 alone.
Milou found himself painting commercial images of local landscapes and portraits
of sports icons as a means of commercial success and survival. The incredible
creativity bursting within him was slowly being hindered by the cold climate and
lack of spontenaity in the northeast.
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| 4th of July |
Miami seemed the perfect venue for this amazingly versatile painter. The
vibrant colors of the sky, the ocean, the glamour of the people, the variety of
ethnicities and languages that encompass the South Florida scene seemed to mesh
with panoply of feelings contained in Milou’s amazing works.
To characterize his style is like trying to describe Miami to the uninformed—lively,
colorful, distinctive, diverse. Just like Miami, right? One could call it very
pop fine art, while others might say pop impressionism. But all say exciting and
glamorous and colorful, just like South Florida itself. Milou’s conception of
beauty is as unique as the painter himself.
Just in the past year, 2005, Milou has accomplished the following:
He was commissioned by the renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art, arguabaley
one of the best in the country, to create a portrait of Benjamin Franklin to
commemorate this famous father of Philadelphia on his 300th birthday.
The museum purchased the painting and copyright as well as development of future
marketing products.
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| Bono |
Milou was selected to participate in Art Expo 2005, an international art show
at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City.
Milou was featured in the July issue of Arts Business News, a national
publication. The article was titled "Patriotic Art Becomes a Melting
Pot".
His Marilyn Monroe works were selected by Cantor Publishing Group to be
included in The Art of Marilyn Monroe, a coffee table book.
Milou was featured in a newly launched Philadelphia art magazine, Sink
www.sinkmag.com
You might have caught this handsome young artist on a show about Philadelphia
on the Travel Channel.
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Perry Milou
at work on a painting |
A few notables have begun collecting Milou’s work, including Sylvester
Stallone, Julius Irving and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. Yours truly is
looking forward to hanging her first piece by this modern master, an image of
South Beach, Ocean Drive and her hot pink vintage Cadillac.
Look for Perry Milou at the patio of the Catalina Hotel on Collins Avenue
near 17th Street in Miami Beach.
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