Avigdor Arikha is one of the most popular and accessible contemporary artists. At the height of a successful career as an abstract painter, he stopped painting to return to drawing from life. This book is based upon interviews with him and includes some of his work from the last decade.
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Loss, displacement and the uncertainty of existence animate the edgy realist paintings and graphics of Romanian-born Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha. Deported at age 12 to a Nazi labor camp, where he made powerful pencil drawings of the unfolding nightmare, Arikha helped his mother and sister survive, but his father, brutally beaten, died of heart failure in 1942. The family was reunited in Palestine. As a soldier during Israel's war of independence, Arikha almost died. His life-enhancing art upsets conventional ways of seeing by discovering fragile beauty and unexpected meanings in taken-for-granted faces, interiors, streets and objects. His nudes are disquieting existential statements, as reflective as they are provocative. His 34-year friendship with Samuel Beckett nurtured his unblinking view of the human condition. Thomson, Keeper of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, has produced a perceptive, stunningly illustrated biographical-critical study.
Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Finalmente pude conseguir este libro que no se encuentra en Buenos Aires. Dibujo y pinto y, en mi clase de pintura, conocí a Avigdor Arikha. Encontré este libro con espléndidas reproducciones de sus obras. Es un grande de la pintura contemporánea.
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