Believing that art can expand all boundaries, Michael De Brito, began his interactive approach to teaching, so his teachings can impact a more broad audience while giving students the interactive assistance of a physical classroom. DeBrito is dedicated to helping each student find their visual language and ensuring The Madison differentiates itself from other online classes by incorporating real-time supportive critique to enrich the student’s learning experience.
Through his experience, he has found that students respond to the exploration of the core elements of line, shape, form, color, value, texture and space. Most of his teaching methods are created around painting and drawing with value in grey then advancing into color. Every class will broaden each student’s understanding of painting and drawing. He interweaves art history in his classes and allows his students to create their own visual language.
Michael De Brito received his degree from Parsons School of Design and completed postgraduate work at New York Academy of Art. Since 2004, he has been awarded Best of Show from the Audubon Artist Annual Exhibition as well as the Allied Artists of America 92nd Annual Exhibition. A Pollack-Krasner Grant recipient, De Brito has had two one-man exhibitions with the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York and a two-man show at the Galeria Graça Brandao Lisbon, Portugal. His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London and at the Presidential Museum in Lisbon.
De Brito has taught at Parsons School of Design and has been a repeated guest lecturer at the school. He has also taught at the One River School of Art and Design and the Art Guild.
