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Andre BalianAndré Balyon, a Dutch-born painter, was born in The Hague on April 2, 1951, the eldest of seven children. He not only achieved success in the field of art himself, but also trained his two children, Roger and Michel, to embark on the path of art.

At the age of 15, Ballion began his painting studies under the guidance of several masters in his native Netherlands. His four brothers followed suit and became artists and graphic designers. While working as a draftsman and engineer for International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), Ballion did not give up his artistic pursuits. He believes that his technical background in creative construction has an important influence on his later artistic career. "Creating three-dimensional images on a flat surface is mostly a problem-solving process, and in a sense, it is also mathematical."

At the age of 18, Balian moved to Germany and became a special welding engineer for a company that produced bank vaults. Although he learned mainly how to quickly open safes there, he eventually decided to devote the rest of his life to art.

Ballion's love for the Dutch countryside comes through in his paintings. Growing up by the sea, he was deeply influenced by the humid air. He remembers his mother telling him to watch the clouds, a humbling experience.

It was there that Balion gazed upon the dramatic clouds formed by the collision of warm air from the Gulf Stream and cold air from the North Sea, a fascination with the sky and clouds that would dominate many of his paintings. In 1994, he was even invited by the Walt Disney Company to assist and direct the painting technique for the sky in the animated film The Lion King.

At the age of 21, Balion began a new life in the United States. After three successful and productive years in Miami, Florida, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked for six years. After a series of exhibitions of paintings in the Los Angeles area, Denver, Houston, and Carmel, Balion temporarily returned to the Netherlands to have solo exhibitions in Europe and learn etching techniques. He was deeply inspired by artists such as George Innis and John Singer Sargent.

In 1992, Balion opened his own gallery in Carmel, California, where he exhibited a 9 x 30 foot panoramic oil painting "Stewart's Cove", which became a highlight for many visitors. In 1996, he completed a panoramic oil painting called "Panorama Big Sur", a 360 degree, 15x120 foot panoramic view of the Big Sur coastline in California, creating an optical illusion with the sound of waves and breeze, making the viewer feel as if they were actually in the scene. This work will be exhibited in Voorhout, the Netherlands in April 2007.

"Panorama Big Sur" is a prototype and technical study in preparation for a massive 55-by-465-foot panoramic painting, "Panorama Grand Canyon," which will be the largest painting of its kind.

Balion believed that the true purpose of art should be to evoke emotion, whether it be love, pleasure or pain. Art should not be a mere display of craftsmanship, nor a competition with the camera lens. He believed that the artist's intuition and the audience's intuitive feelings were integral to art's ability to convey emotion. However, a painting's ultimate viability as a work of art depended largely on the quality of its visual expression.

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