On the Bench; Oil on Masonite, 60×50 cm<\/p>\n
Avi Schwartz<\/span><\/p>\n Avi Schwartz was born in 1938 in Bucharest, Romania to a family of diamond dealers. He grew up surrounded by important paintings\u00a0from his father’s art collection. When Bucharest was bombed, during the Second World War, Schwartz\u00a0was inclined to stay at home and subsequently began copying\u00a0these masterpieces. In 1947 his family fled Romania. They first arrived to Paris and \u00a0in 1948 they immigrated to Israel. As a boy, he studied in “Shalva” high school and later continued his artistic studies at the Avni Institute of Art, were he was taught by renowned painters: Yehezkel Streichman, Avigdor Steimatzky and Marcel Janko.<\/p>\n At that time, the art scene in Israel and his teachers at the Avni Institute encouraged him\u00a0to follow the direction of international Abstract art. However, he refused\u00a0to follow the path of his teachers \u2013 Steimatzky, Streichman and Janko, who were a part of\u00a0the “Ofakim Hadashim” (New Horizons)\u00a0Movement . As a result, Schwarz stopped painting for a while. When the war in\u00a0the Sinai Peninsula began, he quit his studies and joined the army. After his release, he got married, finished his exams and studied\u00a0History at the Tel Aviv University. During that time, he worked as a diamond polisher and eventually led the Goldsmith department at the\u00a0Ort high school, Ramat-Gan.<\/p>\n Thanks to artist Zvi Shor, who encouraged Schwartz\u00a0to paint from observation, he finally returned to painting at the age of 30. His works were\u00a0inspired by the Impressionism, as well as by the style of his close friends \u2013 Shimshon Holzman and Arieh Lubin. The three of them met on a regular basis and painted together in various outdoor places. At times, painter Nachum Gutman joined\u00a0them. The European painting tradition is deeply rooted in Schwarz’s works. Many of his paintings\u00a0feature characters from the margins of society, though they do not aim\u00a0to portray a specific political-Socialist standpoint.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the Bench; Oil on Masonite, 60×50 cm Avi Schwartz Avi Schwartz was born in 1938 in Bucharest, Romania to a family of diamond dealers. He grew up surrounded by important paintings\u00a0from his father’s art collection. When Bucharest was bombed, during the Second World War, Schwartz\u00a0was inclined to stay at home and subsequently began copying\u00a0these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"view.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}