Michele Del Campo's Paintings

Michel Del Campo was born in 1976 in Italy. He earned a degree in illustration from Jordanstone College of Arts in 2001. He went to Madrid in 2002 to pursue a career as an artist. He has been living and working in London since 2008. He creates paintings in the realism genre, with urban adolescents as the major protagonists. Works exclusively in the realistic staged street genre, writing from images. As a result, Michele is also the plot's director. His work cannot be classified hyper- or photo-realism; rather, it is a style of portrayal, a type of signature of a great painter. His paintings are primarily on the lives of a young person. A slice of regular life recorded on film. Such themes (non-emotional sequences) are uncommon in the work of global artists, yet Michele Del Campo selected them to communicate his creativity. The pieces are quite stunning, and the essential point is instantly apparent: this is not contrived photorealism, but warm oil painting.

The Broken Boat (2012) by Michele Del Campo

Michele Del Campo catches fleeting moments. He catches them in his vision and then "shows" them with drips of paint. And the camera is secondary in his work. Through the lens of his gift, the ordinary actions and gestures of others around him become beautiful and captivating. His paintings appear to be colourful pictures, and Michele Del Campo himself is like a reporter who goes around the city all day with a peculiar camera, capturing and displaying life itself: here are two tanned blondes. Hey, here's a beach photo, but a serious female is reading a book Someone is racing somewhere, while someone else, evidently, is pondering about the eternal..... All of his paintings are about people who are young, expressive, and vibrant. Michele Del Campo studied painting at three institutions in three distinct cities: Milan, Dundee, and Madrid.

Michele Del Campo was always seeking for his own style, whether it was precisely painting every minute detail for several days in a succession or lavishly smearing everything with large brushes, relying only on intuition. Finally, Michele Del Campo realised that the major actors in his paintings are light and colour. These, according to Michele Del Campo, are the only ingredients that give all objects their shape. Michel employs around 30 tones in each of his pieces. He doesn't blend them at all, instead focusing on clarity, contrast, and vibration. His favourite colour is Cobalt Blue, and he finds inspiration from seeing various expressions of feelings and reading intriguing stories. And art inspires Del Campo. He admires Andrew Wyeth's lines and Edward Hopper's paintings; he finds strength in the work of Goya and Liu Xiaodong; he admires Sorolla's daring and seeks vitality in music. Michele Del Campo regularly reads or listens to anything while working in his studio to gain the essential charge and atmosphere for work.

Michele Del Campo has gained reputation among fine art enthusiasts as a result of his talent. His paintings have been shown in some of the most prestigious exhibition venues in Italy and across the world, including Milan, London, Madrid, and Barcelona. The visitor is taken aback by how vividly the artist described the world of adolescence. Because the young environment cannot be boring, fading, colourless, or dismal, we may perceive vitality, movement, and continually raging emotions. It is enjoyable for young people to recognise themselves in these photographs, and for those who have matured to recall happy and carefree times.