Oil 90/80 cm
I searched online for photo references for paintings exploring “human figures embedded in pattern”. I found a lovely formal family portrait, that caught my heart. From the clothing I inferred that it was taken in America around 1940. Were they very young parents with their teenage daughter? Or siblings? Their posed body language and shy smiles were both dignified and very much at ease. At ease with each other.
Oil 100 x 120 cm.
Quite the opposite.
רושם מתוך התבוננות 2021
Oil, 2021 on an older monochromatic painting. 70 x 50 cm. Creating an human image, as defined by his or her surroundings, continues to fascinate me.
As does irony.
Oil and acrylic, 120 x 140 cm.
Oil on canvas, 60×70 cm. Painted during lockdown, in Jan. 2021
טומן ראשו בפרי
A video of my painting process. Since this pandemic began, I have been repurposing old canvases. The results are often unexpected and exciting.
This large oil work 120×140 cm. is on a quite old acrylic painting, that I had abandoned. (A rare occurrence for me. I usually FORCE my unsuccessful paintings to completion.
Pears 2021. Oil over acrylic. 140×120 cm
The last painting of 5780. Oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm.
I’m Flying Like an Airplane 2020. Oil on canvas 100×110 cm.
אני טס כמטוס 2020
I worked and reworked this canvas for years. It began with a plan to create a painting entirely in shades of white. Soon a tree entered. Followed by yellows and my beloved weird greenish “dark yellows” joined. (They arecreated by adding a drop of black into various lemons and flame colors.
My sleeping pilot made his landing last week.
Chanan Mazal | Israeli Artist 