Word: arikha
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...masters drew to discover a final form, to stabilize reality before painting it. But what if drawing is not about definitions, what if it chooses to study the instabilities of perception? Such is the question hidden in the work of a masterfully gifted Israeli artist named Avigdor Arikha, whose exhibition of ink drawings-seen last year at Marlborough Galleries in Manhattan-is now on show in Fort Worth...
...Arikha, who was born 44 years ago in Rumania, survived the Nazi labor camps in Central Europe and was repatriated as an orphan to an Israeli kibbutz in 1944. He studied art and philosophy in Paris-where he still lives with his wife and two children in an icon-cluttered apartment-and until 1965 was an abstract painter. Then came a volte-face; since that year, he has concentrated entirely on life drawing, thus reversing the usual modernist's development. "I was born into modern art," he says, "and it was my start. I think that period is closed...