عين ( ميكيتي ) تستبق الكاميرا والريشة .. مجلة فن التصوير اللبنانية _ ع٤

Micetti's eye anticipates the camera and the feather

From drawing to photography, the
title of the exciti exhibition, which collected some pictures and drawings, was the Italian painting by Francesco Paolo Mecchini, who was born in 1851 and died in 1929 at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of the Italian Cultural Institute.

Light and shadow played by Micetti with a pictorial camouflage, a window with which impressionism appears in nature pictures, where the art of photography mixes with the art of impressionism. Faces of scenes of dark-skinned women. sponsors. Village paths. Nature secrets. Her dreams are that she is the photographer's eye that anticipates the camera lens, but that she is the hereditary eye. Mikitti used a camera that takes many pictures at one time. Nature is his lens. It is as if he is drawing a picture or depicting a drawing. The illustrator masters the technique of depicting faces and scenes that go back to the year 1839, the year of the invention of photography.
With photography, especially since the Italian artist was acquainted with the art of photography before he mastered the quill and painted with charcoal or ink, elegant, romantic, layered, expressive and realistic in the sea and the sea, mixing his nature with nature and imprinting him with the image of nature through the lens of cameras that he moves like a feather on the canvas. His various pictures are preserved in the Donnell's Poe Museum in Italy. Mykini sets the scene with technique and talent, so the photograph appears free, clean, moving, lyrical and typical. It remains a wish, which is for the offspring of photographic exhibitions to multiply in Lebanon, Arab or foreign, so that East and West meet in photographs taken by the eye of time.