Michael Albert, an artist best known for his work of cerealism visited Hamburg Area School District buildings during the week of Nov. 7 to enlighten the young artists of his background and his original form of modern pop art, cerealism.
Albert has been creating art since college. He enrolled at New York University where he originally studied business. However his life took a different turn when he started getting himself into art. He first became interested in art after visiting and exploring many great art museums of New York. His art has evolved from doodles during his college days to serious and detailed wax oil drawings, to finally what is his now most popular art, cerealism.
After seven years of drawing, he began working on collages. His first collages were inspired by the need to use materials he had no other practical use for including old labels & the leftover stickers he had accumulated from his business activities. Soon he began to use the extra photographs he had accumulated after putting together his family photo album at home.
Then came a breakthrough, one day, due to his reluctance to throw away a Frosted Flakes cereal box, Albert created his first modern pop artwork. It was titled “Portrait of an American Classic.” After this, he continued to create collages using cereal boxes. Michael Albert called this modern pop art, “Cerealism.” All of Albert’s original art is handmade by the artist without the use of computers. All materials were collected by the artist, a process which has evolved over the years, where he has been turning used consumer packaging into his own original modern pop art.
Albert continues to create new art regularly and runs collage workshops at schools and arts institutions.
