Giladi Aharon, born in Russia in 1907, immigrated in 1929, died in 1993.
Giladi studied painting in Leningrad. The work he evolved after immigrating to Eretz Israel consisted of landscapes and genre scenes populated by faceless figures, their countenances merely hinted by even, monochrome patches. The lack of facial features makes the figures appear anonymous and detached, although they relate to each other in their gestures and stances. Giladi favored small-scale paintings of women, alternately tall and stout, and children of all ages, described by blotches of color circumscribed by thicj contours, and appearing in a quasi-abstract setting compound of dark planes. Giladi's expressionistically paint-laden and twisting brush strokes convey a tense and dramatic mood that contracts sharply with static composure of the figures themselves.
(Source: Israel Discount Bank Art)
