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Michael Megale Artist Fine Art Photography

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A Painting by Michael

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A painting by Michael

A Dance of Folly

A Dance of Folly

A Dance of Folly

The Art of the Portrait

THE ART OF THE PORTRAITportrait of a beautiful woman

The idea for this kind of picture began with a completely formed perception. In a mental image I saw the aesthetics of a process. In its simplest form, it was, for the artist to compel perception.

That is, to elicit, to compel the person whose portrait is being made to be thoroughly engaged: that is, to see the photographer.

I knew that perception between individuals is a large issue. We can barely see ourselves. And, most of us have only a rudimentary sense of another individual.

I have always regarded fine art painting as the antecedent of fine art photography, in the sense that the aims and preoccupations of an authentic fine art photographer and a fine art painter, in history, are identical.

There are differences, of course. Photography is, perforce, a simpler art. There is so much less control in photography. A painter can say so many things over a large landscape. Essentially fine art photography can say only a single thing.

In fine art painting since the Renaissance, for the most part, the subject of a portrait is looking off to the side. They are not engaging the painter. They are sitting for a portrait. The painter imagines their character; he is in the context of his time. He creates the work of art. They are separate. She sits and he imagines, through the wonder of the human mind and a thousand brush strokes.

When you see a portrait in which the person seems to be actually looking at you, you can, in a way, actually engage the individual in the painting. In this portrait the painter and the subject are with each other, looking at each other.

Woman With Candles

Michael Megale Artist - Woman with Candles

Spaced Out

Hannah Spaced Out

MacKerricher

MacKerricherM

MacKerricher Forest

Bright Lights

Michael Megale Artist Gallery "Bright Lights"

Blue Cylinder

Blue Cylinder

Blue Cylinder

Innocent Civilians Killed in War

Innocent Civilians Killed in War

Innocent Civilians Killed in War

Wall

Wall

Yellow Steel Structure

abstract Yellow Structure

Yellow Steel Structure

Morning Trip to Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry

Morning Trip to Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry

Morning Trip to Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry

Old Man

Old Man Downtown Manhattan v5

On Thompson Street in Lower Manhattan

A Tribute to Man on Bench

Man on the Bench sleeping

A Tribute

Michelle

 

Michael Megale Artist Gallery "Michelle"

Michelle

Montreal

Montreal Nude

Montreal

Flowers

The Flowers Vertical

The New Matilija

Michael Megale Artist Image of Beautiful Matilija Flower

Cigarette

Nude Woman Smoking a Cigarette by the Water

Impressionist Nude

Impressionist Nude Woman in Woods

 

The Beach

The Beach

The Photographer

The Photographer

The Photographer 1982

A Holocaust Victims Memorial Sculpture

Michael Megale Artist Gallery "A Holocaust Victim's Memorial Sculpture 1"

A Holocaust Victims Memorial Sculpture

By the Artist

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