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MICHAEL LEDET b. 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana Interior Affair No. 14, 2004 Acrylic on canvas; 72 x 96 in. Collection of Michael Ledet Michael Ledet’s circuitous career and varied successes as a painter, graphic designer, and educator certainly escape easy definition. Hoping to become an artist, Ledet compromised with his pragmatic parents by studying architecture at Louisiana State University. However, Ledet dropped out of LSU and subsequently served as a photographer in the U.S. Navy before returning home to study art and design at the University of New Orleans. Living the bohemian French Quarter life, Ledet worked as an assistant to artist Ida Kohlmeyer. Though largely a self-taught artist, Ledet began to develop his trademark still life, using bright acrylics on large canvases to juxtapose seemingly random figures and forms in composing works unorthodox in both perspective and scale. LEH ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA 291 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1292 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1292

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