Avigdor Arikha
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Avigdor Arikha (
Biography
Victor Długacz (later Avigdor Arikha) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in
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Art career
In the late 1950s, Arikha established himself as an
Arikha painted 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 masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide by this principle of immediacy, partly inspired by Chinese brush painting. It was a principle he shared with his close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson,[5] to whose "instant décisif" it was analogous.
He never drew from memory or photographs, aiming to depict the truth of what lay before his eyes at that moment. He is noted for his portraits, nudes,
Arikha painted a number of commissioned portraits, including that of H.M. Queen Elizabeth, the
Arikha also illustrated texts by Samuel Beckett, with whom he maintained a close friendship until the writer's death.
Artistic style
Art critic Marco Livingstone wrote that 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"."[6]
Art catalogues and public speaking
As an art historian, Arikha wrote catalogues for exhibitions on
He was invited to speak at
Exhibits
Arikha showed frequently (every two years, in London and New York) at the gallery that represented him from 1972, Marlborough, and over the decades he had over two dozen solo shows.
Awards and recognition
- 1954 Gold Medal, Triennial for Applied Art, Milan, Italy
- 1959 Prize, Painters and Sculptors Exhibition, Graduates of Youth Aliyah
- 1978 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
- 1987 Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville Paris, Paris, France
- 1989 Prix des Arts des Lettres et des Sciences, Fondation du Judaïsme Français, Paris, France
- 1995 Honorary Professor, National Academy of Fine Arts of China, Hangzhou, China
- 1997 Doctor Honoris Causa of Philosophy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 2005 Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Paris, France
Books on Arikha
- Arikha, by 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 Duncan Thomson (London: British Museum Press, 2006), published to accompany their 2006–07 exhibition.
- Arikha, catalogue of the exhibition at the Thyssen-Borenmisza Collection, Madrid, Ed. Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza 2008.
References
- ^ "His Lifelines, Haaretz". haaretz.com. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ Arikha's Art of Rigor and Confrontation
- ^ Fox, Margalit (May 1, 2010). "Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 4, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Avigdor Arikha". The Economist. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Washingtonpost.com: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson". www.washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Avigdor Arikha: Artist and scholar who sought to capture existential". independent.co.uk. June 3, 2010. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ Arikha, Avigdor (November 6, 1986). "Pintor Real". Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018 – via www.nybooks.com.
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(help) - ^ Arikha, Avigdor (May 18, 1989). "Giacometti's Code". Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018 – via www.nybooks.com.
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(help) - ^ "Arikha". www.museothyssen.org. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Marlborough". www.marlboroughfineart.com. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Arikha". www.museothyssen.org. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
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- ^ "Blain-Southern". Blain Southern. Archived from the original on January 31, 2018. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Avigdor Arikha: A Breath - Benaki Museum". www.benaki.org (in Greek). Retrieved July 8, 2019.
External links
- Avigdor Arikha collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved September 2016.
- Art of Avigdor Arikha at Europeana. Retrieved February 2012
- Arikha at Blain|Southern Archived January 31, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- Arikha Online
- British Museum – Avigdor Arikha