Avigdor arikha prints from slides

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Your name. Your email. Send Cancel. Toggle navigation Menu Help Need help? Chat with us limited to Stanford community Email a reference question Using SearchWorks Connection Connect to e-resources Report a connection problem If we don't have it Interlibrary borrowing System status. From , Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from until his death to the American poet and writer Anne Atik, with whom he had two daughters.

Arikha died in Paris on April 29, , the day after his 81st birthday. In the late s, Arikha evolved into abstraction and established himself as an abstract painter , but he eventually came to think of abstraction as a dead end.

Avigdor arikha prints from slides

In he stopped painting and began drawing, only from life, treating all subjects in a single sitting. Continuing on this path for the next eight years, his activity was confined to drawing and printmaking until late , when he felt an urge to resume painting. He became "perhaps the best painter from life in the last decades of the 20th century", in the words of the obituary in the Economist magazine.

His practice thereafter remained to paint directly from the subject in natural light only, using no preliminary drawing, finishing a painting, pastel, print, ink, or drawing in one session. His profound knowledge of art techniques and his masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide until the very end of his life by this principle of immediacy, partly inspired by Chinese brush painting.

He drew and painted exclusively from life, never from memory or photograph, aiming to depict the truth of what lay before his eyes, at that moment. He is noted for his portraits, nudes, still lifes , and landscapes, rendered realistically and spontaneously, but in their radical spatial composition they clearly bear the lessons of abstraction, and in particular of Mondrian.

He also illustrated some of the texts of Samuel Beckett, with whom he maintained a close friendship until the writer's death. In the words of the art critic Marco Livingstone, Arikha "bridged the modernist avant-garde of pure abstraction with traditions of observational drawing and painting stretching back to the Renaissance and beyond.

He was truculently insistent that he was not part of any "return to figuration", but rather had found his own way as "a post-abstract representational artist". Add artwork Action History. Wikipedia article References Books on Arikha [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Retrieved January 31, The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 4, Retrieved January 31, — via NYTimes.

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