Arieh Aroch , 1908-1974
Intersecting Heads, 1970

Intersecting Heads, 1970
Artist's name: Arieh Aroch , 1908-1974
Item name: Intersecting Heads, 1970
Technique: Lithograph
Measurements: 75X56 cm
Signed: Signed and numbered 51/80.
Estimate: $500 - 700
Remarks: Stain on the lower left.

About The Artist:
painter, born 1908, Kharkov, Russia.He participated in the Meyerowitz Artists Group in Zichron Yakov. From 1949-1953 he served in the Israeli diplomatic Office in Moscow; from 1956-1959 he was the Israeli Ambassador to Brazil; from 1959-1962 he was the Israeli Ambasador to Sweden; in 1963 he returned to Israel, retired, and devoted himself to art in Jerusalem where he died in 1974. Arie Aroch, though a member of the "New Horizons" from 1947,(see "New Horizons"), suggested an alternative to lyric abstraction, proposing a greater concentration on form; personal statement instead of objectivity; unconventional techniques instead of methodical professionalism, and a more eclectic approach instead of French abstractionism. Aroch's sources for his art works include children's drawings, found objects, folk and traditional characters, and persons remembered from childhood. His thought and techniques (erasing, scratching, scribbling) influenced Israeli young painters such as Aviva Uri and Raffi Lavie.
Education
1924-26 Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
1926-28 Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, Tel Aviv
1934-35 Colarossi, Paris, with Leger

Awards and Prizes
1942 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv
1955 Tel Aviv Museum's Dizengoff Prize
1968 The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1971 Israel Prize for Painting


Literature:
Arie Aroch, curator Mordechai Omer, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2003, p. 337 illustrated.