"Alexandra" Print

My name is Michael Yorga. I was born on March 11, 1971 in Bacau Romania. In my youth, I was intrigued by man's ability to imprint three dimensional illusions on any one dimensional plane. I was impressed with the visuals in our local monastery and, as a hobby I started painting ceilings with candle smoke. I developed a natural ability to draw, and to arrange colors to distort the images and to create impressions that my subconscious develops and feeds my instinct in times discourse. I use that instinct to produce visual memories on canvas and other mediums. I do not use new canvases, I recycle old ones. I do not use erasers. (Sometimes I break these rules.) I do not use subjects. I use imagination. I do not adhere to any standards or methods that I learned. I use them as influential stepping stones. Without art we are animals. Since men drew shapes and animals on cave walls we have in print proof of humans evolution and their development of their intuitive imagination. As humans grew, so did the ability of humans to draw illusions on one dimensional plains, to appear as three dimensional illusions or expressions. El Greco and Caravaggio defined the renaissance period in that regard. Caravaggio is where I noticed the use of light to impress the viewers interpretations by his interpretation of light. Humans had a hard time writing basic elementary symbols. It took hundreds of years of practicing the closely guarded secrets of time ridden developed techniques, of how to connect and manipulate colors and lines to emulate form by illusions that look like three dimensions. Humans applied those learned techniques to the point of depicting images as realistic as Rembrandt’s portraits or as good as any of the great painters of those times. Light, and eventually emotional impressions, were defined by Degas and his piers, or the whole Monet and his circle. Fauvism, led painters to break with nature when applying color. From the likes of Paul Gauguin or Paul Signac as they paved or trail blazed the way to what was humans most significant leap into depicting three dimensions on one. Matisse and mostly Picasso broke the walls by deciphering nature’s anatomy and categorizing or analyzing form by its parts and not by its overall appearance.