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Orange Coast Magazine September 2006 by Dawn Pettit

Michaell was recently selected by Orange Coast Magazine as one of the most interesting up and coming Orange County artists. He is featured in the magazine’s September 2006 Arts & Entertainment issue.

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Los Angeles Times/Daily Pilot March 20, 2006

Abstract art that's upbeat

Michaell Magrutsche aims to inspire with his abstract work at Newport Beach Central Library.

By Kathleen Stinson, Kathleen.Stinson@latimes.com

Michaell Magrutsche knows he can't compete with nature.

The abstract painter eschews representational art because even the best painting of a horse can never compete with a real horse.

He likes abstract art because it involves the viewer and is proactive.

"It's a lost cause to paint nature," Magrutsche said.

"Michaell's Upbeat Abstracts," a group of acrylic paintings on display at Newport Beach Central Library shows a developed sense of art by a second-generation abstract painter.

Magrutsche, who was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up exposed to the art of his uncle, Adolf Frohner, the famous Austrian abstract painter.

Despite the strong influence, Magrutsche said he found his own way.

He believes art should inspire and uplift.

"These days when I enter a room, I want to feel a painting -- I want its color and design to grab me," Magrutsche said. "I am not an elitist artist --either you like it or you don't."

He likes to paint what he calls "liminal" abstracts, which means the viewer interprets the space between the lines and brings something of themselves to the painting.

"I would like my paintings to stimulate the viewer in a way that his or her imagination is triggered to fill in the blanks, thereby creating an interaction with the artwork and playing with the unfilled spaces in a myriad of possibilities," he said.

He also believes a painting should stand on its own, not the backdrop for a new sofa.

He said he's seen a painting by Picasso in a baroque-style apartment and in the most modern of apartment decor. Either place the Picasso is well placed.

The artist uses bold colors and simple forms.

"The color in a painting should grab you," he said. "I am inspired when something grabs my attention. I find vibrant color and special color combinations most rewarding."

The show runs through March 31.

Michaell’s website: www.michaellart.com , Email: michaellart@cox.net

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Writer, Painter And Entertainment Industry Veteran Enjoys Home at Newport Beach

Michaell Magrutsche's resume reads like a character and one of the television pilots he helps produce. A native of Austria, Magrutsche has been employed in virtually every aspect of the entertainment industry, from voiceover work and television broadcaster to television producer, programmer and distributor. His varied career began with and "fascination for the television medium."

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After visiting Southern California in 1982, he co-founded an UHF TV licensing company. When cable "hit big" in the states, Magrutsche embarked on a related endeavor to form a partnership with Austria MD Media to develop television programming and media events focused on the European markets. "Because of the contacts I had made here, I was able to help put together a children's program, which was essentially a pilot project for one of the first interactive television shows," he says." This led to a documentary for Austrian television about U.S. magicians.

For these programs are traveled extensively between the United States and Europe. I have to say that I have always enjoyed working with Americans in this industry."

In 1988, Magrutsche was approached by Hollywood producer Robert Evans ("Chinatown," "Cotton Club") to invest in an international television project. "I had to take a chance and try this," he says. So I came back to Southern California and lived for a time in Evans' home.

It lies during this period that I discovered Orange County." It was also this time that Magrutsche discovered himself through participating in a self-realization program which "gave me a better understanding of how the mind and emotions work and made me realize that my perceptions of myself are completely wrong" this new found "self-awareness" that Magrutsche to develop a "new language" to facilitate communication between business minded and creative individuals. His efforts culminated in a book which he hopes to complete this summer. "It's essentially an emotional language that everybody can relate to," he says."

For example if someone asks what a particular film is about and the response is that it's a Western, that doesn't offer any insights into what the movie is really about. But when you say that it is a story about the betrayal of love that happens to be set in the West, that gives you a better understanding." Magrutsche's theory has practical application, where producers, directors and writers need to "be on the same page" in order to successful complete a project. "The language essentially helps guide creatively in the sense that it forms the parameters or framework which everybody can then work within."

A resident of Newport Beach, the newly married Magrutsche says that also has "traveled the world," Southern California feels like home. "You can't beat the climate here," "I enjoy living at Newport because it's so close to everything, it's very safe and quiet and end the grounds of beautiful and tranquil with all the Gardens, trees in greenery."

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