Art
Michael Albert's "Animalism" SIGNED by the artist
- Item Number
- 165
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 55 USD to doodle
- Number of Bids
- 6 - Bid History
Item Description
Animalism, 2007, 32"x40"
This took the artist 8 months to create & includes a collection of hundreds of different animals he was able to find & collect from printed packages of consumer brands and other printed matter. There are also 49 messages "hidden" within the composition. His own children have said that they think this is his finest work to date!
ABOUT MICHAEL ALBERT - MO D E R N A M E R I CA N A R T I S T
Michael Albert has been making art since his college days at NYU, where he studied business (BPA, 1988).
He became interested in art after visiting many of the great museums of New York and began his own serious artistic pursuits working with magic markers and later, wax oil sticks (fancy crayons).
After 7 years of drawing, he began an exploration of COLLAGE which rivals ANY in the history of ART. His first collages were inspired by the need to use materials he had no other practical use for including old labels & the leftover stickers he had accumulated from his business activities. Soon he began to use the extra photographs he had accumulated after putting together his family photo album at home to create "cubist-type" collage portraits of family & friends.
Then came a breakthrough! One day, due to his reluctance to throw away a Frosted Flakes cereal box, Albert created his first Modern Pop Artwork, a collage he titled, Portrait of an American Classic. This led to a series of these Pop Cubist portraits of famous brands, including a collection of over 500 original Cereal box collages alone (he compares this to Picasso's Blue Period). Albert describes the Cereal Box collages, which he calls "Cerealism", as a cross between Picasso's Cubism and Warhol's Pop.
All of Albert's original art is handmade by the artist without the use of computers. All materials were collected by the artist, a process which has evolved over the years, where he has been turning used consumer packaging (mostly cardboard) into his own original FINE ART.
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