James Michalopoulos Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1951 -

James Michalopoulos, New Orleans artist, has attracted worldwide acclaim for his expressionistic renderings of that city's iconic sites and people. Michalopoulos' paintings feature broad strokes, distorted perspectives, and bold motion, and his portraits and landscape paintings are bright, playful, and filled with vivid imagery, evoking the music, lifestyle, and personality of the French Quarter.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1951, James Michalopoulos studied political economy at Bowdoin College and worked for a food coop in Maine before becoming an artist. In his mid-twenties he moved to New Orleans, where he worked as an itinerant street artist, producing Michalopoulos paintings and prints for an interested public. He then studied fine arts at the University of New Orleans and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art. He has been named Official Artist of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on six occasions. You can find an array of landscape paintings at Invaluable, from prominent contemporaries, up-and-coming names, and the masters of this genre.