Shaoul Smira

Shaoul Smira is widely known as Israel's Chagall. With a vested interest in colour, his paintings are characterized by torn fields of tone, reminiscent of collage, on which drawn figures perform. Due to the lack of identifiable ground and the unreliable scale of his figures, it often seems as though his works are viewed through a broken mirror, while the stage he sets suggests a Bacchanalian inclination towards chaos. Smira embraces an ecstatic, arbitrary creatively that turns its back on the cynicism of postmodernism.