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PROUDLY AUCTIONING SIX ORIGINAL SIGNED OIL PAINTINGS BY LISTED ARTIST AVIGDOR ARIKHA! BIO AS FOLLOWS: Avigdor Arikha is an Israeli who was born in Romania in 1929. He survived the Nazi labor camps in Central ...view moreEurope and was repatriated as an orphan to an Israeli kibbutz in 1944. He studied art and philosophy in Paris, where he lived with his wife and two children. Of those who still paint from life, Arikha is one of the few who, while not abandoning some older ways of painting, remains tellingly modern.
At the same time, Arikha knows very well, and at first hand, the devouring doubt of this century. He is a close personal friend of Samuel Becket, whom he had portrayed many times; he knew Giacometti well and once also sketched him. In short, Arikha bears the curse of knowingness. He is an intellectual who has not developed the protective blindness that most artists use to shield their own art. How does such an artist find a space of his own?
It has taken Arikha a long time. In the 1950s, like most ambitious artists, he painted abstract pictures, although he also drew from life on the side. In 1965, he stopped painting. He says that he saw his basic 'form' recur in his abstractions and "painting afterward was never a revelation and therefore not interesting." There followed a difficult period: for eight years he only drew and made prints. Then, in 1973, he suddenly began to paint again -- this time from life.
Painting from life is one way to exorcise the demon of history, with its tyrannical parade of style; it's Arikha's way to get around the "used up" feeling of modernism. His favorite artists are those who, like Caravaggio, escape the mannerism of their day and turn with fresh conviction to the world. "Nature is infinite," he says. "It cannot be exhausted. You cannot put the mark of time on a great portrait."
He paints most of his pictures in mad four or five hours. Critics have sometimes exaggerated his indifference to subject matter -- and like many artists who paint from life, he seems frightened of being mistaken for an illustrator.
Almost no artist uses color like Arikha. He modulates and blends his hues to suggest the weight and density of an object, rather than building his pictures with primary and unmixed colors; his touch and handling of color are very fine.
For art historians, Arikha will be a slippery subject. The odd meeting of styles is part of the force of his work, helping to establish its splendid tension. By painting each nose differently, he also evokes the flux of the world; by seizing each inch of canvas, he suggests how hard it is to hold on to any belief.
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