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Painting a male portrait by Israeli artist Raphael Perez Contemporary art
Raphael Perez Artist • Painting, XXI century
Description of the artwork «Painting a male portrait by Israeli artist Raphael Perez Contemporary art»
Rafi Peretz, also known by his English name (Rafi Peretz) Rafael Peres, is an Israeli artist who explores his personal and sexual identity through his floral paintings. From 1995 to 1998, he created a series of floral paintings.
When he was just over thirty, Rafi Peretz was still having relationships with women even though he felt gay, he created a series of floral paintings reflecting the confusion of his mind and the struggle with his sexual orientation.
Rafi Peretz drew two flowers, one blooming and one wilted, to depict the contrast and conflict between his heterosexual relationship and his true self.
He also drew a single flower or two at their best to express his desire for a harmonious relationship that suited his nature.
Rafi Peretz chose sunflowers, white lilies and red lilies as symbols of expression, purity and joy respectively.
He painted real flowers by observation, using different styles from realism, expressionism, fascism and contrasting light and shadow to create drama and mood.
Paired Flower Explosion paintings are minimalistic and centered around the theme of complex relationships. Omit any background or context, leaving only the fabric and the pattern of pairs of flowers. In some paintings he added a very airy abstract surface with thin oil paints, creating the atmosphere of watercolor. He created drawings of flowers with ink, markers and gouache on paper. Later he created large acrylic paintings of flowers and still lifes. Peretz's flower paintings are not just illustrations or decorations. They are autobiographical and psychological expressions of his inner state and his struggle with his sexuality.
Through these paintings, he wanted to reveal his loneliness, suffering and hiding, as well as connect with people in similar situations. Consciously choose only two flowers and no more to increase engagement in a tense and complex relationship.
There are realistic pictures of couples of men and women with intense psychological states, and states of wanting to connect and pursue heterosexual relationships that have not succeeded.
He used hyperrealism and expressive styles to convey his frozen and restrained state in heterosexual relationships, to express anxiety and mental tension. He used harsh lighting to create contrast and drama: one side was very bright and the other side was darker.
Pepper was influenced by some famous artists who painted flowers, such as Van Gogh, who also used sunflowers as a symbol of emotional expression. He also used white and red nightshades to convey freshness, purity, purity, color, joy, movement, abundance and splendor.
Rafi drew a few individual flowers or two flowers at their best to show his aspiration for a future in which he would have a harmonious relationship.
Today, in 2023, he is 58 years old and has been in a happy relationship with his partner Assaf Henigsberg for 10 years. He is surrounded by friends and like-minded people and is not in conflict with heterosexual relationships as he once was.
Sometimes he draws potted flowers that symbolize home, stability, peace and solid ground.
He draws not just a few flowers, but pots full of flowers full of life. This means that we also have the support of family, friends and coworkers around us. We live in a rich, supportive and protective world.
The entire flower series and all of Rafi's paintings come from his desire to tell a psychological autobiographical story and to personify the flowers and other objects and characters he chooses. A good work always tells a private story that touches everything, there is not a person in the world who does not deal in his private life with relationships, love, relationships in all the shades that exist in them from joy, loneliness, love, passion. , fullness and unfulfilled relationships, and in fact this search exists in everyone, even when they are in a stable system, so you should not take it for granted, but cherish and invest out of joy, optimism and great love for your partner.
When he was just over thirty, Rafi Peretz was still having relationships with women even though he felt gay, he created a series of floral paintings reflecting the confusion of his mind and the struggle with his sexual orientation.
Rafi Peretz drew two flowers, one blooming and one wilted, to depict the contrast and conflict between his heterosexual relationship and his true self.
He also drew a single flower or two at their best to express his desire for a harmonious relationship that suited his nature.
Rafi Peretz chose sunflowers, white lilies and red lilies as symbols of expression, purity and joy respectively.
He painted real flowers by observation, using different styles from realism, expressionism, fascism and contrasting light and shadow to create drama and mood.
Paired Flower Explosion paintings are minimalistic and centered around the theme of complex relationships. Omit any background or context, leaving only the fabric and the pattern of pairs of flowers. In some paintings he added a very airy abstract surface with thin oil paints, creating the atmosphere of watercolor. He created drawings of flowers with ink, markers and gouache on paper. Later he created large acrylic paintings of flowers and still lifes. Peretz's flower paintings are not just illustrations or decorations. They are autobiographical and psychological expressions of his inner state and his struggle with his sexuality.
Through these paintings, he wanted to reveal his loneliness, suffering and hiding, as well as connect with people in similar situations. Consciously choose only two flowers and no more to increase engagement in a tense and complex relationship.
There are realistic pictures of couples of men and women with intense psychological states, and states of wanting to connect and pursue heterosexual relationships that have not succeeded.
He used hyperrealism and expressive styles to convey his frozen and restrained state in heterosexual relationships, to express anxiety and mental tension. He used harsh lighting to create contrast and drama: one side was very bright and the other side was darker.
Pepper was influenced by some famous artists who painted flowers, such as Van Gogh, who also used sunflowers as a symbol of emotional expression. He also used white and red nightshades to convey freshness, purity, purity, color, joy, movement, abundance and splendor.
Rafi drew a few individual flowers or two flowers at their best to show his aspiration for a future in which he would have a harmonious relationship.
Today, in 2023, he is 58 years old and has been in a happy relationship with his partner Assaf Henigsberg for 10 years. He is surrounded by friends and like-minded people and is not in conflict with heterosexual relationships as he once was.
Sometimes he draws potted flowers that symbolize home, stability, peace and solid ground.
He draws not just a few flowers, but pots full of flowers full of life. This means that we also have the support of family, friends and coworkers around us. We live in a rich, supportive and protective world.
The entire flower series and all of Rafi's paintings come from his desire to tell a psychological autobiographical story and to personify the flowers and other objects and characters he chooses. A good work always tells a private story that touches everything, there is not a person in the world who does not deal in his private life with relationships, love, relationships in all the shades that exist in them from joy, loneliness, love, passion. , fullness and unfulfilled relationships, and in fact this search exists in everyone, even when they are in a stable system, so you should not take it for granted, but cherish and invest out of joy, optimism and great love for your partner.
