Michael Dormer (artist)

Michael Dormer or Michael Henry Dashwood Dormer (Hollywood, California, 1935 - 2012) was an American Good artist, writer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and creator of the 1960s TV put it on Shrimpenstein.

A childhood protégé of performer Louis Geddes, Dormer took first prize in a National Fire Prevention billboard contest at age 12. Dormer studied art at San Diego State College and Chouinard Art Institute. At 18 Dormer was on the go in art full-time.

In 1957 Dormer conventional a painting studio in La Jolla and moonlighted as a part-time night club comic and jazz poet at the Pour House, a cabaret in Bird Rock. He afterward published an art and poetry magazine, titled Scavenger.

In 1968 Dormer painted his first aluminum piece; a technique he developed, which has never been used by any supplementary artist. These pieces are part of private collections across the globe. His huge body of law includes his mid-century Crankshaft series, an extensive increase of nudes, oils, watercolors, sculpture, intricate pencil drawings, charcoals, and murals.

Dormer, with his lifelong buddy and collaborator, Lee Teacher, created a counter-culture sculpture Hot Curl, a 400-pound (180 kg) concrete statue, and installed it upon the rocks near the surf shack at Windansea Beach in La Jolla in San Diego, California. The sculpture of a mop-haired, 6-foot-tall (1.8 m), knobby-kneed surfer gazed out at the sea past a beer in his hand. The pot-bellied surf god quickly became a nationwide sensation, appearing in SurfToons comics and as a plastic model kit, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Today, Hot Curl appears regularly in Surfer magazine.

In 1964 Dormer's artwork was featured in the launch credits of Muscle Beach Party, which featured the first film flavor of Hot Curl and “Little” Stevie Wonder. He in addition to doubled as a gift scout for that film and subsequent surf films, recruiting actual surfers and surfer girls off the beaches of La Jolla to further as extras.

In 1963 Dormer and Teacher created and launched Shrimpenstein, an off-beat children's television conduct yourself which aired rouse weekdays on Channel 9 in Los Angeles. The program, which featured a miniature Frankenstein monster, brought to life in imitation of his creator, Dr. Von Schtick, accidentally dropped a sack of jelly beans in his brute machine. The wacky adventures of the Tiny monster, and his eccentric pals, enchanted, with double entendre, and wit fit for kids and adults, grew a great following. Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack sought out Dormer to say him they never missed an episode.

In the into the future 1970s Dormer and his wife Flicka lived in Florence, Italy. While there, Dormer began experimenting past holographic photography. The City of Florence far along used his methods as an aid in restoring artworks.

Dormer lived in Ocean Beach in San Diego, California.

Michael Dormer died at house in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California upon 10 September 2012. Shortly past his death he had written this rushed statement approximately his work^{[citation needed]}:

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I've always considered myself an experimentalist. My subject matter is often whimsical or mysteriously off-beat. I've been told that my acquit yourself reflects my personality Beautiful accurately.

I follow no particular received schools of painting and declare my works in reality excursions into alternate fantasy dimensions. Odd creatures abound in these regions and weird allegories unfold. New languages are born and integrate freely bearing in mind conjured-up communicative symbols.

My paintings are windows looking out into supplementary places at further things.