Aviva Uri
{{short description|Israeli painter}}
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| birth_place = Safad, Gaillee, British Palestine
| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|09|01|1922|03|12}}
| death_place = Tel Aviv, Israel
| nationality = Israeli, Jewish
| field = Painting
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Aviva Uri ({{Langx|he|אביבה אורי}}; March 12, 1922 – September 1, 1989) was an Israeli painter.{{cite web|last=Uri|first=Aviva|title=Chapters from the book about her life|url=http://www.museumeinharod.org.il/hebrew/exhibitions/2002/aviva_uri/aviva_uri_text.pdf|work=Aviva Uri|accessdate=November 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401182838/http://www.museumeinharod.org.il/hebrew/exhibitions/2002/aviva_uri/aviva_uri_text.pdf|archive-date=April 1, 2012|url-status=dead}}
Biography
Aviva Uri studied dance with Gertrude Kraus. In 1941, she married Moshe Levin, with whom she had a daughter, Rachel. In 1943, she studied painting with Moshe Castel, continuing with David Hendler in 1944. She married Hendler in 1963. She cultivated an unusual appearance, wearing white face makeup and dark eye-shadow, and oversized black clothing. She deliberately falsified her age, claiming she was born in 1927. She died in Tel Aviv in 1989.{{IMJ-Collections|last=Uri|first=Aviva|accessdate=November 2011}}
Artistic style
Uri's expressive drawings focused on line and composition. Her abstract drawings link her to the "New Horizons" group, but suggest an alternative to the abstract art being created in the country: instead of oils, she created drawings on paper; instead of the professional mixing of colors, she used no coloration; instead of Paris, she was influenced by Japan and China, or other individualists (Hans Hartung). Uri's free line influenced younger artists, such as Raffi Lavie.[https://books.google.com/books?id=L14Vt1VqfY8C&pg=PA924 Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish culture, (2005), Glenda Abramson]
Awards and prizes
- Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv, 1953
- Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Museum, 1956
- Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1976
- Prize of the Lea Porat Council of Culture and Art, 1985
- America-Israel Cultural Foundation, 1986
- Histadrut Prize, 1989
- Gutman Prize, 1989
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Aviva Uri}}
- {{IMJ-IAC|id=270438|accessdate=30 November 2011}}
- {{Europeana|last=Uri|first=Aviva|accessdate=November 2011}}
- Aviva Uri [https://web.archive.org/web/20120401182838/http://www.museumeinharod.org.il/hebrew/exhibitions/2002/aviva_uri/aviva_uri_text.pdf Chapters from the book about her life] in Hebrew
- Aviva Uri [http://www.harelart.com/#!aviva-uri/c240r Silkscreens & Mixed media on paper] Har-El Printers & Publishers 1977 1978
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Category:Sandberg Prize recipients
Category:20th-century Israeli painters
Category:Jewish Israeli artists