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Lavie, Raffie
(b Tel Aviv, 1937). Israeli painter. He studied painting and sculpture at the State Art Teachers Training College in Tel Aviv. From 1960 he exhibited paintings that consisted of unrestrained scribbling on or into raw canvas, influenced by the work of Israelis such as Arie Aroch and Aviva Uri and by the Americans Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, all of whom represented a reaction against lyrical abstraction. While such works were intended to be read both visually and semantically, in both these and more purely abstract paintings such as Composition (1972; Jerusalem, Israel Mus.) he used precisely calculated and spontaneously generated forms, scumbled surfaces, elusive colour schemes, sporadic lines and geometricized collage elements. In later works such as 1984 (Tel Aviv, Givon Gal.) more clearly defined shapes and colour passages are placed against large areas of bare plywood. From the late 1970s Lavie influenced younger Israeli artists, particularly through his teaching at the State Art Teachers Training College in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv.
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