Diary Page
Harold Rubin
12.10.06 - 30.11.06

My works are pages from a diary which I have been documenting since childhood.

My own life and the lives around me – images of relationships between people within the society in which I live.

The dynamics of the human condition provokes me to make entries into this personal commentary – an intense urgency to make a mark on a piece of paper that will create a momentum to take me into a process of discovery about - myself – my work – the human animal and our amazing spirit and sense for survival or at times not so.

A timeless magnificent failure and an occupation that keeps me more or less sane – a stimulation to proceed.

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Harold Rubin

Artist, teacher, jazz musician, and architect, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932.

After five one-man shows between 1956 and 1962, he was charged with blasphemy for his drawing "My Jesus" and acquitted after a five week trial.

He immigrated to Israel in 1963 and has exhibited in Israel, Germany, Holland, England, the U.S.A. and South Africa.

He taught life-drawing at the Bezalel Art Academy, the Avni Institute, Meimad Art School, Ramat Hasharon Art College, Negev College and Art Centre Jaffa. In 1994 taught at the Posnan Academy, Poland. Taught for 11 years at the Sadna Architectural College and is currently doing workshops in life drawing at the Artists Association Tel Aviv.

His works have been shown in museums in Holland, Germany, South- Africa and Israel.

'Tel Baruch'
 
'Mona Lisa'

Harold Rubin


self portrait