Mordechai Arieli

Artist's Biography:

Mordecai Arieli, born 1909, Sovalky, Poland.
Immigrated to Mandatory Palestine 1926.
1934 worked as bill-board artist for the "Migdalor Cinema" in Tel Aviv;1937 Member of Association of Painters and Sculptors, Israel; 1949 A founder of New Horizons Group; Was secretary of the group from 1953-57 Died 1993.

Education
1925-26 Hebrew Gymnasium, Poland
1926-28 Bezalel School of Art, Jerusalem, with Stymatzky, Schtreichman, Kastel, and others
1931-34 Grande Chaumiere Academy, Paris, France
1931-34 L'ecole Superieur de Dessin, Paris, France.

Teaching
1951-71 Teacher's Seminar "Talpiot", Tel Aviv
1951-71 Popular University
1971-74 Painting Teacher's Seminar, Tel Aviv

Awards and Prizes
1953 The Histadrut Prize
1954 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
1955 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1958 The Histadrut Prize
1961 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1962 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture

Solo Exhibitions

1944, 1948, 1963 Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv
1951 Tel Aviv Museum
1973 Rozenfeld Galley, Tel Aviv
2006 Hamishkan Le'omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
2012 Selection of Papers, Oil on Newspapers from the 60's, Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Also participated in all "New Horizons" exhibitions between 1949-1963.

Group Exhibitions

1949 Ofakim Hadashim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Israeli Association of Painters and Sculptors, Jerusalem
1951 Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1952 Ofakim Hadashim, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
         Painting and Sculpture in Israel, An Exhibition arranged to the Museum's 20th Anniversary, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1953 The ''Conquest of the Wilderness'' Exhibition, International Convention Center (Binyanei Hauma), Jerusalem
         Ofakim Hadashim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
         The Israeli Exhibition, São Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil
1954 General Exhibition, Art in Israel , General Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1955 Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
         Association of Painters and Sculptors, Tel Aviv
         Ofakim Hadashim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1956 Artist Pavilion, Tel-Aviv
         Annual Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
         Ofakim Hadashim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1957 Ofakim Hadashim, Haifa Museum of Art
1958 Ten Years [of] Israeli Painting, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1959 New Horizons, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
1961 / 1962 / 1965 / 1967 General Exhibition, Art in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1962 Artists' House, Jerusalem
1963 New Horizons, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
1966 New Horizons: 1949-1963, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1967 Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
1968 Artists' Day: Exhibition of Paintings Jerusalem
1969 Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel, The Exhibition Grounds, Tel Aviv
1974 Ausstellung Israelischer Maler, Germany
1978 Oil Paintings, Danya Art Gallery, Haifa
1979 Artist's Choice, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1983 Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1987 Exhibition of Israeli Artists - Bat Yam Is 60, Bat Yam Museum of Art
1988 A People Build Its Land: Israeli History as Reflected in Art, Herzliya Museum
2000 Hamishkan Le'omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
2008 1948, Eretz-Israeli Art Leading to the Future, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
         The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
2010 Local Hero: Portrait of the Arab in Israeli Painting, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2014 Lyrical? - Not Necessarily: Israeli Abstract Art in the Dubi Shiloah Collection, Open University Gallery, Ra’anana
201 A New Horizon for New Horizons, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod. 

Mordechai Arieli (Morzinsky) was born in 1909 in the city of Sobalki, Poland. His family was traditional, and his father was a painter. At first, he studied in a room and in a Russian folk school. At a Hebrew high school, he studied seven classes until he met Boris Schatz, who recommended that he go to Eretz Israel to study at Bezalel.

In 1926 he immigrated to Israel and began studying art at the Bezalel Academy until the closure of the school in 1928.
During his studies at Bezalel, he was considered one of the "rebels" because of his tendency to modern painting. In 1931, Arieli traveled to Paris, where he stayed until 1934. During these years he studied at the Grande Schumier and the Ecole Supérieure des Décines. In 1937 he joined the Association of Painters and Sculptors, and in 1949 joined the "New Horizons" group. He served as Group Secretary between 1953 and 1957 and exhibited at all the Group's exhibitions in Israel and around the world.
Arieli's style in the late 1920s was naive - realist, which is evident in portrait art and his inanimate nature. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was influenced by the atmosphere of the country and incorporated in his works Oriental figures and the landscapes of the country.
At the beginning of the 1950s, Arieli began to appear as an influence on the cubist style, and he incorporated sharp geometrical forms into his works. In the mid-sixties and seventies, Arieli was based on the abstract constructivist style, in which he created a solid architectural building based on bright patches of color that create a delicate balance between them.
Many of Arieli's paintings were made in gouache on paper, his brush strokes lightly and spontaneously. In contrast to the paintings of gouache, Arieli's oil paintings were made on medium size fabrics, and the paintings are designed and very restrained in relation to the gouache paintings. In his oil paintings, the thin layers of paint appear delicately and precisely.
Arieli passed away in 1993.
Arieli has exhibited in many exhibitions around the world. And even won the prestigious Dizengoff Prize twice.
His works are found in many collections and museums in Israel and abroad.

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