ARTIST MICHAEL COLAVITO THE NEW PICASSO

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MICHAEL COLAVITO
THE ART OF THE 21ST CENTURY
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg

Robert DeNiro

Chuck Close

After hearing about the buzz surrounding artist/photographer Michael Colavito and his original new art with numerous comparisons to great names in art history like Picasso and Warhol, I met with him for an interview. You hear this being casually said of upcoming artists from time to time but with Colavito it is all true. The work is impactful, inspiring, and truly original to say the very least. I have never seen art like this. He films numerous subjects and creates modern art and bronze sculptures that he incorporates into his cinematic film work and diversified large format 8x10 photography, all without computers, special effects or blue screen. He is a film purest in every sense of the term, his work is natural and organic. Upon completion of my first interview, I was overloaded and mesmerized as if having visited a museum with art everywhere. Colavito art style has redefined my view of art, photography and film. He has created unique, never seen before portraits of icons, Robert DeNiro, Jeff Koons, Chuck Close, Cyndi Lauper, Montel Williams, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Philip Glass, (and others) and has intrigued each of them independently with his art style, Colavito Modern Image Painting. Colavito fine art portrait mural of Mayor Michael Bloomberg was delivered to the Mayor’s office last week.

Cyndi Lauper

Here’s an artist who not only cares about originality and film purity but who also truly cares in the deepest sense about people in need and is strongly committed to the use of his art for charity through numerous charity donations and events - just last week he photographed 200 kids with aids and focused on making each kid feel special about their respective portraits. Colavito and his agents (Michael Sitzer and Stephen Weingrad) have been campaigning to sell his original art film, Chasing Originality, with the majority (more than 50%) of sale proceeds directed to charitable organizations. The film was created and produced with considerable personal expense by Colavito and over a year invested in layering more than 20,000 individual frames of film with his art. The unique film is a one of a kind in art history, endorsed by renowned art appraiser, Alex Rosenberg, applauded by legendary artist, Chuck Close and many other notables (Jeff Koons, Mark Kostabi, etc). The film was recently submitted to Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well for his formal endorsement because of his dedication as a leader to people and his iconic role as a prominent contributor and patron for the arts. Mayor Bloomberg himself was quite moved by Colavito artwork and intrigued by his organic art style without computers asking multiple questions about Jeff Koons, Chuck Close and DeNiro portraits. Colavito recently created a never seen before art film short of Robert DeNiro created in same the likeness as Chasing Originality which will be sold and positioned for the charity of DeNiro’s choosing as an extension of this project (Colavito art for charity).

Jeff Koons

The Colavito film sale project for charity has been aired on numerous national radio and television programs in the past several months with Colavito speaking to more than 50 million people and reaching out to companies in corporate America, with specific mention of Coca Cola, Pepsi Co., American Express and Kodak. The project goal is to sell the art film as tangible property (collectible art) to one of these “visionary” corporations with tax incentives, distribution rights, and enormous national attention directed to the company’s philanthropic contribution as an investment in people. Colavito has been endorsing these companies regarding their green initiatives and history of philanthropic contributions without any deal on the table to present a formidable sample of free advertising emphasizing the continuing national attention to be gained by the “winning bidder”. He has spoken repeatedly and openly about his willingness to offer a free national marketing campaign of Colavito Signature Images with intentions of extending his commitment even further to match and completely offset the monetary investment for any company willing to “step up to the plate”. Colavito has spoken fondly of Kodak not only regarding green initiatives but because of his personal life long dedication to film purity and appreciation of the company’s history related to the evolution of the film industry, not to mention that Colavito art film, Chasing Originality, was recorded entirely on Kodak film stock. As part of this same initiative Colavito and his agents are reaching out to private investors and art collectors for sales of Colavito limited edition photographic prints, and bronze/modern sculptures with proceeds directed to charities as well. It’s not very often that an artist is mentioned with the greatest in art history. I believe that Colavito may very well become part of the conversation.

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