Artist Name: Yadid Rubin
Title: Still life in the interior
Signature Description: Hand-signed and dated "1976" lower right
Technique: Mixed-media on paper
Size: 76 x 56 cm / 29.92" x 22.05" inch
Frame: The painting is farmed
Condition: Very good condition with no evidence of tears, rips, wrinkles, repairs, wear, paint peelings or losses.
Artist's Biography:
Yadid Rubin (1938, Hadera - 2012, Kibbutz Givat Haim) was an Israeli painter. Lived and worked in Kibbutz Givat Haim.
Rubin studied painting at the Academy in Vienna before his military service. After the army he studied art at Avni Institute in Tel Aviv and at the Royal College of Art in London through a fellowship.
His paintings are saturated with color and power.
Yadid Rubin is considered by many to be "the last Israeli painter." As an artist who studied under teachers such as Avigdor Steimatzky and other great lyrical abstractionists, he "rebelled" against this tradition of painting while creating his own personal language. Unlike his teachers who painted in thin, broken colors, he chose a much more direct painting style, based on saturated color strokes and he was inspired by expressionist painters like Van Gogh.
His paintings are covered with a veil of great naivete, while the archetypal images such as a tree, house and tractor painted in a naive and schematic manner are nothing but a window to a very complex painting based on unique colored relationships and an innovative and bold color scheme.
Under the guise of naivete, he "infiltrates" into the depths of life and emotion, relying only on the simplest images that surround him in the kibbutz where he lived from his childhood to his death.
Yadid Rubin's paintings offer a new syntax of landscape, which does not correspond with the concepts of subjectivity, intimacy and authenticity through which Israeli art has woven its identity.
This is a landscape delighting in the "decorative," the "synthetic" and the "beautiful"- terms that were unmentionable for many years in Israeli art's inner circle; these are landscape paintings in which the sense of place and its absence exist side by side, composing a new reality.
Education
1957- 1958 The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1962 - 1966 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
1967 - 1968 Royal College of Art, London
Solo Exhibitions
1975 Engel Galley, Jerusalem
Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1976 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalouge)
1978 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1978 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1982 Alon Gallery, Jerusalem
Kibbutz Cabri Gallery
1985 Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Alon Gallery, Jerusalem
1987 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988 Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalouge)
Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot Gallery
1988 -1989 Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989 Givat Haviva Art Center
1990 Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalouge)
1992 Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Art Cologne For International Art 92
1994 Art Basel 25; 95 for International Art
Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1996 Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art (catalouge)
Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Performing Art center, Tel Aviv
Beit Gabriel on the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)
1998 Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1999 Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2000 Art Gallery, Kibbutz Givat Haim
2001 Ashdod Museum of Art
Kibbutz Na'an Museum
Yoram Gil Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
2002 Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003 Art Gallery, Kibbutz Lohami Hagetaot, Art Gallery, Rosh Hanikra
2004, 2006, 2008 Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Plowed Color: Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Group Exhibitions
1967, 1969 Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1970 Artists’ House, Jerusalem
Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1971 Municipal Museum, Ramat Gan
1972 Artists' House, Tel Aviv
1973 "Graphic Art in Israel Today", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"From Two into Three Dimensions”, Artists House, Jerusalem
Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
1974 "Spring 74”, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1977 "Santa Caterina (Sinai) Artists Meeting", Julie M. Gallery
1978 "The Kadishman Connection”, Israel Museum, Jerusalm
1980 "Kibbutz No. 2”, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1983 “Contemporary Art Meeting “Tel Hai, Israel
1984 "Art Meeting 84”, Artists House, Tel Aviv
1986 "Landscape", Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988 "Haifa Portrait of a City", Haifa Museum of Modern Art
“Landscape”, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989 "Line Against Line", karmeliterkolster, Frankfurt; Fredricia Gallery, Berlin
1989 - 1990 Travelling Exhibition, Syeagalleriet, Stockholem; Konsthall,
Sodertalje; Konstmuseum, Ystads; Charloottenburghall, Kopenhagen
1992 "Small Format", Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
“Ayala Zaks Collection”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1993 Art Cologne for International Art 93
1994 "Action", the 70’, Chelouche Gallery for Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Avi
The Artists House, Rishon Le'Zion
“Art Focus", Givat Haviva, Artist’s Studio, Hedera
1995 Art Bazel 26; 95 for International Art
Towards the other, Ilania
“The Autumn Salon", The Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
"Landscape", Um-El- Fachem
1999 "Echo", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Yoram Gil Gallery, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
2001 "World Order", Ben-Gurion University
"Summer profile", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Vadi Ara", Givat Haviva
Art Forum Berlin, International Art Fair, Germany
2005 Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Award exhibition, Tel Aviv Art Museum
2007 "Four Young Artists", Ha'Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 "Van Gogh in Tel Aviv", Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
2009 "Home Page", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 "Good Little Thing", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards
2005 Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Award
America-Israel Cultural Foundation
Outdoor Sculpture: Untitled, 1970, Dubnov St., Tel Aviv, painted metal.
Yadid Rubin is one of Israel's most distinguished artists. He lived and worked in Kibbutz Givat Haim.
His artistic oeuvre explored the "beautiful Israel", in its specious Kibbutz landscapes, tractors in plowed fields, citrus groves and cypress boulevards; a countryside steadily disappearing from real life but one that continues to exist in Rubin's paintings, liberated from the apparent and visible to the eye; Rubin is known for painting in his isolated studio with covered windows.
"I paint the landscapes of the Kibbutz, but these are actually the landscapes of the soul. I do not paint from direct regard but from accumulation of feelings that shape a view, under the notion that things are not arbitrary" Said Rubin.
Rubin creates thick layers of paint and shapes constructed by brush strokes that appear to be thrown on the canvas with restrained force.
His style is intense and dense with lush brilliant colorfulness. The colorful patterns repeat themselves to create an organized totality.
The fields of form and color are constructed by a repeating rhythm of lines, dots and circles. This rhythm balances the continuance of vertical and horizontal pulses into a harmonic structure creating a strong sensation of vitality and abundance, which seem to want to break the limits of the canvas.
Yadid Rubin won the prestigious Ministry of Culture, Education and Sports Award for 2005, and in 2010 he had a retrospective in Tel Aviv Art Museum.
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