Aviva Uri (

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: אביבה אורי; March 12, 1922 – September 1, 1989) was an Israeli painter.

Biography

Aviva Uri studied dance with Gertrude Kraus. In 1941, she married Moshe Levin, with whom she had a daughter, Rachel. In 1943, she studied painting with

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, continuing with David Hendler in 1944. She married Hendler in 1963. She cultivated an unusual appearance, wearing white face makeup and dark eye-shadow, and oversized black clothing. She deliberately falsified her age, claiming she was born in 1927. She died in

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in 1989.

Artistic style

Uri's expressive drawings focused on line and composition. Her abstract drawings link her to the "

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" group, but suggest an alternative to the abstract art being created in the country: instead of oils, she created drawings on paper; instead of the professional mixing of colors, she used no coloration; instead of

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, she was influenced by

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and

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, or other individualists ( Hans Hartung). Uri's free line influenced younger artists, such as Raffi Lavie.Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish culture, (2005), Glenda Abramson
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Awards and prizes

* Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv, 1953 * Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Museum, 1956 * Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art,

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Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, 1976 * Prize of the Lea Porat Council of Culture and Art, 1985 * America-Israel Cultural Foundation, 1986 * Histadrut Prize, 1989 * Gutman Prize, 1989

References

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Chapters from the book about her life
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* Aviva Ur
Silkscreens & Mixed media on paper
Har-El Printers & Publishers 1977 1978 {{DEFAULTSORT:Uri, Aviva Israeli women painters 1922 births 1989 deaths Sandberg Prize recipients 20th-century Israeli painters 20th-century Israeli women artists Jewish artists Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery

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Artistic style

Awards and prizes

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