Placido Domingo Painting

Richly colored and enigmatic, American painter Michael Delaney’s works evoke the human figure with a poignant flourish. Inspired by Renaissance masters as much as Japanese artistry, Delaney paints the human form as evocatively as Michelangelo and John Singer Sargent before him. Brilliant chiaroscuro graces these compositions, luxuriously blending light and darkness with a unique poeticism. A certain lyricism enhances Delaney’s subjects and compositions alike; color has a crescendo, while tone oscillates in rhythmic elegance. Details are not so much positioned in and around his canvases as they are scored with a gentle, easy, chic sophistication, revealing a zeal for the minutiae of life, from the banal to the beautiful. “ Mainly my work is a reflection of my experiences and journey through life and as an artist living and working in New York,”