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She also depicted landscapes with a unique concept of
space. These landscapes which were seen from above had terrain. The compositions are open, lack boundaries and
no borders and were stretched to infinity. In her search for relate to her search for the infinity of nature, the cycles of
personal venues of self-expression, she gradually moved nature, the dialogue between man and nature or to quote
from Realism to Abstract while maintaining a naturalistic the poet Tchernichovsky: “A man is the mold for the
hint to bind her work to reality. landscape of his birthplace”.
Looking at her paintings, one would be immediately
impressed by the emanating orange color, which integrates Liron has direct contact with the canvas. She imbues color
red, and yellow. Red is a warm, emotional color as well as into the canvas by using a cloth and her fingers to achieve
the color of blood, pain and devastation. Yellow, separating maximum saturation. After the canvas dries, she sketches
the warm from cool colors, symbolizes light, sunset and on it and creates the composition. At the beginning of the
vast deserts. The sun that gives light and supports life can process the palette has a wide range of hues - purples,
also be a destructive, consuming force. Orange is a warm, blues, greens and browns. On top, she lays the reds and
joyful color that is associated with vitality and tenderness. yellows. All, in search of the orange that for her signifies the
essence of existence. In her work she creates a dialogue
In her book “Color in Modern Painting” Gila Ballas describes with other Israeli artists like Michael Gross, On Reisman and
color as the internal expression of the painter even as he Batia Grosbard but one could also tie her work to Abstract-
relies on nature. The color expresses an emotional inner Expressionism and “Color-Field-Painting” artists. Liron
truth reflecting a mood and a state of mind and symbolizes demonstrates intellect combined with sensitivity in
ideas. Such are the sensations one gets by looking at Dita constructing her work. She investigates the use of color and
Liron’s work which is based on nature. She combines nature canvas, the way they interact ,and how the flat canvas
and landscape with the human body, especially that of the depicts the 3D reality of her psyche.
female body. At times, the body outlines evoke a map of the Dalia Danon - curator

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