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Please note: Artists not classified as American in our database may have limited biographical data compared to the extensive information about American artists.Ĭreating biographies or improving upon them is a work in progress, and we welcome information from our knowledgeable viewers. Rafi (Raphael) Perez has 0 artist signature examples available in our database. askART lists Rafi (Raphael) Perez in 0 of its research Essays. Galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Rafi (Raphael) Perez as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" There are 0Īrtworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers askART's database currently holds 3 auction lots for Rafi (Raphael) Perez (of whichġ auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)Īrtist artworks for sale and wanted. He puts a strong emphasis on single-sex families, pride parades, soldiers, male birth giving, portraits, male nudity, as well as male, female and heterosexual couples.Ģ006 Bicory Haeitim - center calture, tel avivĪrtist auction records. Many of his works deal with the subject of homosexuality. Perez uses two primary styles in his paintings realistic paintings in which red is the dominant color and naïve style, which has been influenced by his years working with children. He is a graduate of the Jerusalem school of Visual Arts where he studied from 1988 through 1992 and where many of his acrylic, oil, laminated wood pieces and drawings can be found. Raphael Perez, was born in 1965 and was raised in Jerusalem. Rafi Perez is known for Nude male and female, still life, flower and naive style painting. He also works in more realistic styles with great talent, and his flickr photostream is also splashed with photographs, whether of models in his studio, self nudes, self photos next to his artwork and other pieces that make the artist available and human to the public, and not just a name and a signature in his artwork.Rafi (Raphael) Perez (Born 1965) is active/lives in Israel. I find them cheerful and extremely happy.
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I particularly enjoy his "naive paintings", so full of color, innocence (even in erotic situation) and simple mindedness of pure love vibrating in the form of flying hearts all around. Men kissing and dancing on Tel Aviv building Perez's works bring forward to the cultural space and to the public discourse the truth about living as LGBT and about relationships, with all of their aspects – casual relationships and sex, the yearning for love, the everyday life and the mundane activities that exist in every romantic relationship – whether by describing two men in an intimate scene in the bathroom, the bedroom or the toilet, a male couple raising a baby or the homosexual version of the Garden of Eden, family dinners, relationship ups and downs, the complexity in sharing a life as well as mundane, everyday life competing with the aspiration to self realization – through Perez's life." "The subjects of the paintings are the everyday life of couples in everyday places and situations, along with the aspiration to a homosexual relationship and family, equality and public recognition. His life and the life of the LGBT community are connected and unfold over hundreds of artwork pieces." And a gay artist that I really enjoy seeing in my flickr contacts is Raphael Perez from Israel.Īccording to his Flickr profile: "Raphael Perez is the first Israeli artist to express his lifestyle as a Gay. It seems appropriate to feature a gay artist after the Pride day and New York's approval of gay marriage.