Art, Visual Thinking and Creativity
Had a glorious day, teaching gesture drawing in the café this morning. I wrote this on Thursday and ever since, was trying to catch up with myself and find the time to post it. It’s not that I do not have the time. Apparently my priorities are just not in their right place and [...]
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The eternal conflict between my need to write something profound and between the need to communicate with my audience, even if it’s an internal audience, creates a writer’s block which usually doesn’t last too long. There seems to be a parallel between my writing block and a reluctance to get moving with my painting. I [...]
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On Saturday I went to see the new renovated Israel Museum in Jerusalem with friends and as usual there is some good and some bad. I do not mean only the art; I mean, I am not really sure that the renovators are actually familiar with the concept of usability since the labyrinth like structure [...]
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Dalia Shor, a very good friend of mine from kibbutz Yir’on has opened a lovely exhibit of her delicious water colors from different periods in “Tove Osman”, a prominent gallery in the middle of Tel Aviv.Dalia is a very special person and i could fill books with all the adventures that we went trough together and maybe [...]
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There is a very nice display window gallery in my neighborhood of Florentin, called ” 3Meters-Gallery” , right next to the Cafe where I regularly sketch almost on a daily basis. Today I mounted some of my sketches in this lovely little space and here is the video of the process.Actually, a year ago almost exactly on [...]
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It is always a pleasant event to see a great art as it evolves and manifests itself and even more pleasant , when it’s happening with a good friend and colleague. Rona Shahar’s unveiling of “Panthera Tigris Nisnas“, an installation- exhibition is definitely such an event. The exhibition includes two large oil paintings and numerous [...]
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This week in Tel Aviv, the art scene exploded into a frenzy of the new season’s openings to which I didn’t bother to attend since it all felt just too overwhelming.An event that is supposed to be a Biennale has turned into an Annual event called Art TLV and same as last year I heard [...]
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part of my creative process is a constant shift between themes, some of which include landscape, cityscape and the human figure with all it’s variety and richness.
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Hi everybody.This is actually my very first blog entry and naturally I am very exited. It will be a very short entry since I am on the way to an opening of the paintings of Hadar Gad, a very talented painter whom Ive met on cafe Themarker. I hope that I will be able to [...]
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My name is Josef Ralt. I am an artist, painter, art teacher and creativity facilitator. My blog is about anything that is connected with art, visual thinking and creativity in all it's forms.It is also where i think aloud about the intriguing relationship between the normal everyday events of my life and how they evolve eventually into shapes, colors and forms on my canvass.
