George Chemeche Abstract Still Life Tabletop with Fruit Oil Painting, 1965

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This is a bright, colorful oil painting of a table top with fruit. Banana, Pomegranate and glass of water.

George … more This is a bright, colorful oil painting of a table top with fruit. Banana, Pomegranate and glass of water.

George Chemeche was born in Israel in 1934 and studied at the Avni Art School in Tel Aviv and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. this painter and printmaker's sensual and romantic yet rationally conceived screen prints featuring plants and flowers are associated with the PATTERN & DECORATION movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
His style is non-minimalist, sensuous, romantic, rational and decorative. it runs counter to the modernist taboo against a decorative quality in art. Though pattern painting's roots are in modern art, it contradicts some of its basic tenets as it attempts to assimilate aspects of Western and non-Western culture not previously accepted into the realm of high art. In Chemeche´s work, we can see how chosen motifs are repeated in order to cover a surface in a uniform way. The results often have a painterly feel, but remain systematic. The intention is to make a high-art statement within a contemporary context by referring to, and using what to many still remains within the world of non-art. Pattern painting, unlike abstractionism, has structure. It also has content as it refers to patterns in the real world. Usually, patterning intentionally acknowledges the decorative function of art, reconciling both the decorative and the meaningful.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, "Six Artists"
Biv Gallery, New York, "Chelsea Artists"
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
"FJ.A.C.," Petit Palais Paris Galerie Naire, Paris
Weintraub Gallery, New York, Print Show
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Alexandra Monett Gallery, Brussels
Givon Art GaJIery, Tel Aviv
South Houston Gallery, New York
Ray Landis Gallery, East Brunswick, New Jersey
Gala Gallery, Key Biscayne, Florida
Art Asia Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
Selected Artists Gallery, New York
Mabat Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
OHana Gallery, London
"Six Artists", Modern Art Gallery, Old Jaffa
Modern Art Gallery, Old Jaffa
The Autumn Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum
Dugith Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Hadassa "K" Klachkin Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Rina Art Gallery, Jerusalem The Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Galerie Transposition, Paris Collective Exhibitions
"Young Artists", Tel Aviv Museum
Salon de La Jeune Peinture, Musee d'art Moderne, Paris

A well listed Painter, sculptor, and printmaker ( see Davenport's, the Benezit, etc.) working in an abstract expressionist modernist style like that of Raymond Parker, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner and Elaine de Koning. Known as a member of the pattern and decoration movement of the late 1960's and early 70's his work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, MOMA, Fogg Art Museum and the Muse d' Art Moderne (Paris) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Cornell Univerity, Ithaca, New York. Eversan Museum, Syracuse, New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York amongst others. less