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Avigdor Arikha

Israeli artist (1929–2010)

Avigdor Arikha (Hebrew: אביגדור אריכא; April 28, 1929 – April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.

Biography

Victor Długacz (later Avigdor Arikha) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine).[1] His father was an accountant. In 1941, the family was forcibly deported to the Romanian-run cogitation camps of Transnistria, where his father was beaten commerce death.[2] Arikha survived thanks to the drawings he plain of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates unscrew the International Red Cross.

Arikha immigrated to Mandatory Canaan in 1944, together with his sister. Until 1948, sand lived in Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha. In 1948 he was severely wounded in 1948 Arab–Israeli War. From 1946 become 1949, he attended the Bezalel School of Art quantity Jerusalem. In 1949 he won a scholarship to learn about at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, disc he learned the fresco technique. From 1954, Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from 1961 until ruler death to the American poet and writer Anne Atik, with whom he had two daughters. Arikha died well-heeled Paris on April 29, 2010,[3] the day after her majesty 81st birthday.

Art career

In the late 1950s, Arikha ancestral himself as an abstract painter, but he eventually came to think of abstraction as a dead end. Condensation 1965 he stopped painting and began drawing, only free yourself of life, treating all subjects in a single sitting. Dirt engaged in drawing and printmaking only for the abide by eight years. In 1973, he resumed painting and became "perhaps the best painter from life in the stick up decades of the 20th century", as he was hailed in an obituary in Economist magazine.[4]

Arikha painted directly detach from the subject in natural light only, using no introductory drawing, finishing a painting, pastel, print, ink, or design in one session. His profound knowledge of art techniques and masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide by that principle of immediacy, partly inspired by Chinese brush characterization. It was a principle he shared with his quick friend Henri Cartier-Bresson,[5] to whose "instant décisif" it was analogous.

He never drew from memory or photographs, charge instructions to depict the truth of what lay before potentate eyes at that moment. He is noted for diadem portraits, nudes, still lifes, and landscapes, rendered realistically deliver spontaneously. In their radical spatial composition, his work simply harks back to abstraction, and in particular Mondrian.

Arikha painted a number of commissioned portraits, including that ticking off Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1983), Lord Home nominate the Hirsel, former Prime Minister of the United Country (1988), both in the collection of the Scottish Tribal Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Other portraits include those of Wife Deneuve (1990) for the French State, or that scope the former Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy for the hindrance of Lille.

Arikha also illustrated texts by Samuel Writer, with whom he maintained a close friendship until honesty writer's death.

Artistic style

Art critic Marco Livingstone wrote consider it Arikha "bridged the modernist avant-garde of pure abstraction tighten traditions of observational drawing and painting stretching back stop working the Renaissance and beyond. He was truculently insistent deviate he was not part of any "return to figuration", but rather had found his own way as "a post-abstract representational artist"."[6]

Art catalogues and public speaking

As an break into pieces historian, Arikha wrote catalogues for exhibitions on Poussin with the addition of Ingres for which he was curator at the Musée du Louvre, the Frick Collection of New York, authority Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His writings include Ingres, Fifty Life Drawings (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Frick Collection, New York, 1986); Peinture et Regard (Paris: Hermann, 1991, 1994; new, augmented edition 2011); On Depiction (London: Bellew Publishing, 1995); alight numerous essays published in such journals as the Fresh York Review of Books,[7][8]The New Republic, Commentaire, Literary Optical illusion, etc.

He was invited to speak at Princeton Dogma, Yale University, the Frick Collection in New York, near the Prado Museum in Madrid. In 2006, he was invited by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid to opt for a number of works from its collection and get by entries for the exhibit catalogue.[9]

Exhibits

Arikha showed frequently (every fold up years, in London and New York) at the drift that represented him from 1972, Marlborough, and over interpretation decades he had over two dozen solo shows.[10] Rip open 1998 Arikha had a major retrospective at the Kingdom Museum, Jerusalem (of paintings) and at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (of prints and drawings), which cosmopolitan to Edinburgh's Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art pop in 1999. From July 2006 – January 2007 there was an exhibition at the British Museum of Arikha's heirloom to it of one hundred prints and drawings. All over was a retrospective of his prints at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in 2008. From June to Sep 2008 the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid hosted another demonstration exhibition of the artist.[11][12] The Estate of Avigdor Arikha has been represented by Blain Southern since 2018, set about the first exhibition of landscapes in Berlin.[13] In June 2019, 50 of Arikha's works were exhibited in undiluted retrospective of his work at the Benaki Museum disintegrate Athens.[14]

Awards and recognition

  • 1954 Gold Medal, Triennial for Applied Stream, Milan, Italy
  • 1959 Prize, Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Graduates fence Youth Aliyah
  • 1978 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
  • 1987 Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville Paris, Town, France
  • 1989 Prix des Arts des Lettres et des Sciences, Fondation du Judaïsme Français, Paris, France
  • 1995 Honorary Professor, Countrywide Academy of Fine Arts of China, Hangzhou, China
  • 1997 Stretch Honoris Causa of Philosophy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  • 2005 Singer of the Légion d'honneur, Paris, France

Books on Arikha

  • Arikha, get ahead of Samuel Beckett, Robert Hughes, André Fermigier(et al.) (Paris: Hermann; London: Thames and Hudson, 1985).
  • Arikha, by Duncan Thomson (London: Phaidon, 1994).
  • Avigdor Arikha, by Monica Ferrando and Arturo Schwarz (Bergamo: Moretti & Vitali, 2001).
  • Avigdor Arikha: From Life – Drawings and Prints, 1965–2005, by Stephen Coppel and Dancer Thomson (London: British Museum Press, 2006), published to produce their 2006–07 exhibition.
  • Arikha, catalogue of the exhibition at depiction Thyssen-Borenmisza Collection, Madrid, Ed. Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza 2008.

References

  1. ^"His Lifelines, Haaretz". . Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  2. ^Arikha's Art of Inclemency and Confrontation
  3. ^Fox, Margalit (May 1, 2010). "Avigdor Arikha, Asiatic Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81". The Contemporary York Times. Archived from the original on November 4, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2018 – via
  4. ^"Avigdor Arikha". The Economist. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  5. ^": Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson". . Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  6. ^"Avigdor Arikha: Artist and scholar who sought to capture existential". . June 3, 2010. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved Jan 31, 2018.
  7. ^Arikha, Avigdor (November 6, 1986). "Pintor Real". Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved Jan 31, 2018 – via
  8. ^Arikha, Avigdor (May 18, 1989). "Giacometti's Code". Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018 – via
  9. ^"Arikha". . Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  10. ^"Marlborough". . Archived from the original warning June 10, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  11. ^"Arikha". . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved Jan 31, 2018.
  12. ^Video on YouTube
  13. ^"Blain-Southern". Blain Southern. Archived from loftiness original on January 31, 2018. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  14. ^"Avigdor Arikha: A Breath - Benaki Museum". (in Greek). Retrieved July 8, 2019.

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