Short biography and Artist Statement:
My full name in English is Raphael Perez and in Hebrew Rafi Peretz Born in 1965 in Jerusalem, since 1995 I live and work in Tel Aviv, my parents immigrated to Israel from Morocco in 1949 and got married in 1950, my father loved art, writing, drawing, but because he had to provide for 7 children he abandoned his love for art and worked as a receptionist at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, my mother worked as a nanny at a daycare for babies and later took care of babies at home, my 6 brothers and sisters work in the fields of creativity and education like our parents I studied at the College of Visual Arts in the city of Beer Sheva in the years 1989-1992. Since 2013 I have been in a relationship with the love of my life, an amazing man, a guy named Assaf Henigsberg (you can do a Google search for his name and see the paintings I drew of him and photos from the trips we take to gardens, palaces, and museums in classical Europe that we really love. Rafael Perez is an Israeli artist known for his naive style paintings of Tel Aviv city. His work captures the essence of the city and its urban landscape, highlighting its iconic buildings and sites. Perez’s paintings create an idealized atmosphere in which reality is beautified and presented in a dreamy, fantastic manner. Perez’s work is characterized by its vibrant colors and cheerful depiction of life in Tel Aviv. The streets in his paintings are full of people and loving couples hugging and kissing, while the boulevards are lined with well-kept trees and bushes. Perez’s work presents a vision of Israel’s future as a promising startup nation, with a beautiful, clean, and naive cityscape featuring towering skyscrapers reaching towards the sky. Through his art, Raphael Perez portrays Tel Aviv Jerusalem and other cities as a modern and advanced cities. His paintings are a celebration of the city’s unique character and its place as a cultural hub in Israel. Perez’s work is a testament to the beauty and vitality of Tel Aviv and its people. The idea that accompanied me in the creation of these naive style works is to rebuild and plan the city in the most optimistic and beautiful way possible, I choose the most iconic and famous buildings in each city that are architecturally interesting and have a special shape and place the iconic buildings in boulevards full of trees, bushes, vegetation, flowers. To give depth to the painting, I build the painting in layers. I start with the boulevard and the road, with flowers, grass, small plants and loving couples and children with flags, after that boulevards of trees, behind them low houses, icons. Behind them are huge trees and after them I draw the skyscrapers and towers so that it creates a kind of depth in the painting. In the sky I sometimes put innocent signs of balloons, kites, Recurring motifs in some of my paintings are the figure of the painter who is in the center of the boulevard and paints the entire scene that takes place in front of him, also there are two kindergarten teachers who are walking with the kindergarten children with the national flags that I paint, and loving couples hugging and kissing and family paintings of a mother, father and child walking in harmony on the boulevard. Most naive painters have the same characteristics (Definition as it appears in Wikipedia) Tells a simple story to absorb from everyday life, usually with humans. Represents the painter's idealization of reality - beautifying reality. Failure to maintain perspective - especially details even in distant details. Extensive use of repeating patterns - many details. Warm and bright colors. Sometimes emphasis on outlines. Most of the characters are flat, lacking volume There is no interest in texture, expression, correct proportions No interest in anatomy. There is not much use of light and shadow, the colors create a three-dimensional effect. I feel that these characteristics of the naive painting are present in all my naive paintings.
Tel Aviv street painting Israeli naive art Raphael Perez Israeli painter
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