ABOUT THE ARTIST

        Life may imitate art and art may imitate life, but there is that rare individual whose life IS a work of art - "A Magical Disneyland Figure Come to Life" - and neither his life nor his art is an imitation of anything; it's very real!  Benoir is the rarity, that reality! 
 
     Seemingly, every event in his life, planned or accidental, has become, in retrospect, one long continuous piece of performance art.  He has expressed and revealed the aesthetic in ways many accomplished artists never do, simply by living life, loving people and contributing to America from a very human and unique patriotic perspective.

    After many decades on the world stage and in the global media for his humanitarian and "performance art" lifestyle, Benoir has earned a Master of Fine Arts degree (from a Vermont college near to the Vermont College of Fine Arts) and is now focused on the life of a fine artist.  More amazing yet, he has invented entirely new methods of applying paint to canvases and has assembled various unimaginable transitions and methods to create new forms of art.

     Benoir's natural zest for creating thrust him into the role of an award-winning, multifaceted artist.  Other patriotic notable achievements earned him a personal White House reception, two Presidential citations, a Presidential medallion and a citation from Her Majesty The Queen.  Distinct characterizations of his creative art forms are: Ochriniptic Art. DNA Art, De la KreMenz Art, Historical Art, Wish Upon a Star Art and The Ethereal Star Firecracker Art Series.

     The inspiration for Benoir's Firecracker Art approaches the aesthetic from a completely different direction than many artists, but what has always been an essential element of his work is patriotism!