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tonykwk39@ Avigdor Arikha (April 28, 1929-April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian. Avigdor Arikha (originally Victor Długacz) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine). His family faced forced deportation in 1941 to the Romanian-run concentration camps of Transnistria, where his father died. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of the International Red Cross. Arikha emigrated to Palestine in 1944, together with his sister. Until 1948, he lived in Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha. In 1948 he was severely wounded in Israel's War of Independence. From 1946 to 1949, he attended the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. In 1949 he won a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he learned the fresco technique. From 1954, Arikha resided in Paris. Arikha was married from 1961 until his death to the American poet and writer Anne Atik, with whom he had two daughters. Arikha died in Paris on April 29, 2010, the day after his 81st birthday. In the late 1950s, Arikha evolved into abstraction and established himself as an abstract painter, but he eventually came to think of abstraction as a dead end. In 1965 he stopped painting and began drawing, only from life, treating all subjects in a single sitting. Continuing on this path for the next eight years, his activity was confined to drawing and printmaking until late 1973, when he felt an urge to resume painting. He became “perhaps the best painter from life in the last decades of the 20th century“, in the words of the obituary in the Economist magazine. His practice thereafter remained to paint directly from the subject in natural light only, using no preliminary drawing, finishing a painting, pastel, print, ink, or drawing in one session. His profound knowledge of art techniques and his masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide until the very end of his life by this principle of immediacy, partly inspired by Chinese brush painting. It was a principle he shared with his close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson, to whose “instant décisif“ it was analogous. He drew and painted exclusively from life, never from memory or photograph, aiming to depict the truth of what lay before his eyes, at that moment. He is noted for his portraits, nudes, still lifes, and landscapes, rendered realistically and spontaneously, but in their radical spatial composition they clearly bear the lessons of abstraction, and in particular of Mondrian. He also illustrated some of the texts of Samuel Beckett, with whom he maintained a close friendship until the writer's death. In the words of the art critic Marco Livingstone, Arikha “bridged the modernist avant-garde of pure abstraction with traditions of observational drawing and painting stretching back to the Renaissance and beyond. He was truculently insistent that he was not part of any “return to figuration“, but rather had found his own way as “a post-abstract representational artist“.“ 阿維格多·阿里哈 Avigdor Arikha（1929年4月28日-2010年4月29日）是羅馬尼亞出生的法國 - 以色列畫家，繪圖員，版畫家和藝術史學家。 阿維格多·阿里哈（原名Victor Długacz）出生於Rădăuţi，講德語的猶太父母，但在羅馬尼亞Bukovina（現烏克蘭）的Czernowitz長大。他的家人在1941年被迫被驅逐到羅馬尼亞人的德涅斯特河沿岸集中營，他的父親去世了。由於他為驅逐場景製作的圖畫，他倖存下來，並向國際紅十字會的代表們展示了這些圖畫。 阿里哈與他的妹妹一起於1944年移民到巴勒斯坦。直到1948年，他住在Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha。 1948年，他在以色列的獨立戰爭中受了重傷。從1946年到1949年，他參加了耶路撒冷的Bezalel藝術學院。 1949年，他獲得獎學金，在巴黎的Ecole des Beaux Arts學習，在那裡他學習了壁畫技術。從1954年起，Arikha居住在巴黎。 Arikha從1961年結婚，直到去世為美國詩人和作家Anne Atik，他有兩個女兒。 Arikha於2010年4月29日，即他81歲生日後的第二天在巴黎去世。 在20世紀50年代後期，阿里哈演變為抽象並將自己定位為抽像畫家，但他最終將抽象視為死胡同。 1965年，他停止繪畫並開始繪畫，僅從生活中開始，一次性對待所有主題。在接下來的八年裡繼續沿著這條路走下去，他的活動僅限於繪畫和版畫，直到1973年末，他才有了恢復繪畫的衝動。用經濟學人雜誌的ob告說，他成了“20世紀最後幾十年生活中最好的畫家”。此後，他的練習只能在自然光線下直接從拍攝對象進行繪畫，不使用初步繪圖，一次完成繪畫，粉彩，印刷，墨水或繪畫。他對藝術技巧的深刻了解和他精湛的繪畫技巧使他能夠遵循這種即時性原則直到他生命的終點，這種原則部分受到中國毛筆繪畫的啟發。這是他與他的好朋友亨利
