Aviva Uri

Aviva Uri studied dance with Gertrude Kraus. In 1941, she married Moshe Levin, with whom she had a daughter, Rachel. In 1943, she studied painting with Moshe Castel, continuing with David Hendler in 1944. She married Hendler in 1963. She cultivated an unusual appearance, wearing white face makeup and dark eye-shadow, and oversized black clothing. She deliberately falsified her age, claiming she was born in 1927. She died in Tel Aviv in 1989.[2]

Uri's expressive drawings focused on line and composition. Her abstract drawings link her to the "New Horizons" group, but suggest an alternative to the abstract art being created in the country: instead of oils, she created drawings on paper; instead of the professional mixing of colors, she used no coloration; instead of Paris, she was influenced by Japan and China, or other individualists (Hans Hartung). Uri's free line influenced younger artists, such as Raffi Lavie.[3]

• Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv, 1953[1]
• Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Museum, 1956
• Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1976
• Prize of the Lea Porat Council of Culture and Art, 1985
• America-Israel Cultural Foundation, 1986
• Histadrut Prize, 1989
• Gutman Prize, 1989

• Visual arts in Israel

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aviva Uri.

• "Aviva Uri". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
• Art of Aviva Uri at Europeana. Retrieved November 2011
• Aviva Uri Chapters from the book about her life in Hebrew
• Aviva Uri Silkscreens & Mixed media on paper Har-El Printers & Publishers 1977 1978