Serigraph

Shlomo Alter
Shlomo Alter was born in Romania in 1936 to a family of restaurateurs. He was naturally gifted and from an early age, he showed a precocious ability to draw. He came to Isreal in 1948 and during high school he started to study painting under the painter Aaron Avni. Two of his works in soft pastels took part in Unicef’s World Touring Exhibition of young painters. During the sixties he was sporadically guided in painting by the world-renowned painter, Masel Yanko, also a family relative. In 1975, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to his artwork. Since then, he has held many one-person exhibitions and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Isreal.

Shlomo Alter
Shlomo Alter was born in Romania in 1936 to a family of restaurateurs. He was naturally gifted and from an early age, he showed a precocious ability to draw. He came to Isreal in 1948 and during high school he started to study painting under the painter Aaron Avni. Two of his works in soft pastels took part in Unicef’s World Touring Exhibition of young painters. During the sixties he was sporadically guided in painting by the world-renowned painter, Masel Yanko, also a family relative. In 1975, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to his artwork. Since then, he has held many one-person exhibitions and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Isreal.

Shlomo Alter
Shlomo Alter was born in Romania in 1936 to a family of restaurateurs. He was naturally gifted and from an early age, he showed a precocious ability to draw. He came to Isreal in 1948 and during high school he started to study painting under the painter Aaron Avni. Two of his works in soft pastels took part in Unicef’s World Touring Exhibition of young painters. During the sixties he was sporadically guided in painting by the world-renowned painter, Masel Yanko, also a family relative. In 1975, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to his artwork. Since then, he has held many one-person exhibitions and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Isreal.

Harry Araten (1936-2001) was born in Casablanca, Morocco. Lived and studied in New-York between the years 1940-1968, and moved to Israel in 1968. Since 1965 he exhibited internationally. He was a published author and an illustrator of children’s books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Harry Araten include Seven Animal Stories for Children, Essential Jewish Trivia Book for Kids, A Child’s First Book of Jewish Holidays. He was also an accomplished and widely exhibited watercolorist and serigrapher.

Artist’s philosophy
“The elements of nature that surround us, both physically and metaphysically, should sooth us. Instead, we destroy the essential beauty and basic peace of our environment. We enclose ourselves in many needless rules and regulations. Choice is limited by our narrow-mindedness and selfless pursuit of absurdities. Humanity, as represented by the suited form and by the hopes of the angelic alter-ego, optimistically, but with an underlying sorrow, continuously searches. Searches with an unswerving single-mindedness for happiness during survival on a dwindling planet. Symbols of this search include balloons and butterflies, rising as high as imagination and spirit wills. My art is oblique; I point rather than slash so that my philosophy is revealed slowly, in a measured manner. In this way, the viewer reaches intellectual conclusions that are deeply and continuously felt. My art offers philosophical rhythms that flow to their conclusions.”