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CHAIM IsRAELI
Lives and works in tel-aviv, israel
 www.israelic.com
artist contact
 israelic@actcom.co.il
sAUdAde, 2005 acryLic anD coLLage on canvas 40x40 in. /100x100 cm. YsABeLLA, 2007 acryLic on canvas 22x27 in. / 55x70 cm.
Chaim Israeli attended the famed Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv, he believes can bring him closer to his artistic truth. In a conversation
graduating in 1964. He was a student of Israel’s most appreciated about his work Israeli said: “I paint what impresses me most in my day
Abstract painters of that time, including: Shtreichman, Kahana, and to day life. While painting I am listening to my stomach trying to ignore
Stimatzky. Israeli left Abstract few years after finishing school. Unlike any sophisticated ideas.”. Thus, his works reach out from the canvas
most of his colleagues, he never enters the Conceptual Art zone either. into the viewer’s heart in the same manner. In this sense, Israeli’s art
Israeli moved into his own unique style of Semi Realism, a style that is both contemporary and transcendent of any time or culture.