dan lavie paintings, drawings, oil, acrylic, charcoal, pencil, Indian ink, etching, figurative, nudes, still life, signal processing, abstract, windows
dan lavie
paintings and drawings from the 70's to the 00's.
Homage to Richard Diebenkorn, 1986, oil on canvas, 27"X39", Courtesy of the Baruchi family, Haifa, Israel
Figurative Paintings: 1982-1990
Figurative Paintings - 1991- 2003
Signal Processing impressions.
Figurative paintings from the 70's
contact information and curriculum vitae
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Preface: In 1970 , after a long break, the artist began to draw and paint again. In 1976, he joined an etching studio on Mount Carmel. He participated , with colleague artists, in uninstructed nude drawing sessions. At that period he met Gitit, Sabina Mandel, Gil Bashan, and other fellow artists. Some joined him later in art activities. At that time he purchased a small studio apartment at a picturesque neighborhood near Carmel center. In that studio (built by the British for the Iraq petroleum company refineries in 1947) he carried out most of his art works during the late 70's and 80's. Most of the paintings from the 70's have been purchased or given as gifts. Therefore this folder shows only those few paintings that could be traced. During the 70's Dan had only one solo exhibition. It lasted 2 days. 46 paintings have been displayed. Back from London in 1982, following three years studies towards Ph.D (Image Processing at London University), Dan Lavie opened again his studio in Carmel Center, Haifa. There he made some of his figurative oil and acrylic paintings. To see them press here. During the 80's , the artist held nudes paintings sessions almost every week in his studio. The size of the room enabled only few to participate at the same time. Among them were Israel Kantor, Chava Gilon, Shoshana Cohen, Tamar Dobrovsky, Ilana Messinger, Estie Shulman and Judy Wax. The sessions took place usually on Fridays. . In this folder you can see some of the artist's work from those days. The artist's "Art meets Science" series can be traced back to 1954, when Dan at the age of 10, began taking private lessons in creative art with emphasis on drawing and painting. But from an early age he was also interested in the natural sciences . He chose, at the age of 15, to study electronics. Later on , after completing high school, he went to the Technion to study electronics engineering. Physics and mathematics always were at the top of his mind. But he could not leave the fine arts aside. In parallel with the studies towards academic degrees (B.Sc. MSc. and PhD) he devoted many hours a week to the arts. In 1986 Dan decided to mix signals and other physical phenomena into his art work. His background in Electronics, Telecommunication, Physics and signal processing methods began to show on his canvas. He "..... noticed the aesthetic values hidden within mathematical equations, graph theories and engineering analysis methods....". Some of his artistic works reflect his "other world" - Physics, mathematics, Engineering. Following a major operation in 1991, the artist stayed at home for a few months. His studio was rented and he moved his easels, paints, brushes and other materials to a relatively spacious room in his flat and, between moments of rest, developed this style which was strongly influenced by the then newly arrived computer operating systems. The image on the canvas is no longer a description of a single scene but can be a combination of few "sub images", editing tools, reminders, control tools and many other two dimensional variations, restricted only by the canvas size. The artist was attracted to the new generation of software visualization and the result is expressed by the paintings in the following folders. few paintings were painted already in 1989. But the majority is from 1991 on. Two folders in this web site are allocated to art works influenced by his long experience in science and engineering. Microscopus and Signal Processing. The world of miniature microelectronic wafers and chips can be closely observed through high magnification microscopes ( either optical or electron). Microelectronic wafers (cut to many chips) are usually made of silicon. Inspecting these components reveals a new world of patterns, shapes and colours. Some of the works in this folder have been created during the late 80's but the majority was created later. From 1993 to 1995 , Dan was involved in R&D activities inside a microelectronics institute and laboratories. This experience was the inspiration to most of the paintings displayed in this folder. Digital Signal processing, Adaptive signal processing, Spectral analysis, Fast Fourier Transform, Cepstrum, Analog to digital conversion, matrix manipulation, matrix inversion, matrix transpose, exponent, sampling theorem, all are buzz words for some but obvious for those who study and research digital signal processing. The artist is involved in this field and is always fascinated by the aesthetic shapes and forms that mathematical tools and measurement instruments have given to our world. In the Signal Processing folder some of the impressions , usually on canvas, are described. This web site exhibits some examples of the artist drawing exercises which he kept doing, at least once a week. Life Drawing is the most important tool to keep line in control. The works here and in the other two folders related to drawing, are a very small part of a huge archive of drawings made in the last 20 years.
Daniel Lipchitz, 2003
