COLlive.com presents Art & Soul featuring renowned and up and coming visual artists who specialize in Jewish and Chassidic scenes and themes and showcase their works. The feature is presented in cooperation with the Leviim Jewish Art Gallery in Crown Heights.
Yossi Bitton was born in 1956 and raised in the holy city of Tzfas, the epicenter of artistic and spiritual culture in Israel. He was inspired and influenced by many great artists Chayim Nahor, Aliza Nahor, Shaul Victor, and Benyamin Truseie. While living in The Artist Colony, he gained a great love for art, particularly the art of painting.
His paintings vibrate with the Jewish Spirit in a wide range of styles; Classical, Realism, Abstract and Impressionism with the unique techniques that he has learned over the years. Yossi lives in Jerusalem with his wife and four children.
How did you get into art?
I got into art when I was a teenager. I got my inspiration from the many artists living in my community in Tzfas. That really helped me in my journey of being an artist.
What work are you most proud of?
I can’t say any speicific since I connect to all the paintings I create. I work hard to put my feelings into each of them. They express what’s in my life. However, there’s always some, that touches me deeper than others.
What’s your favorite part of being an artist?
Arts a very special way to express myself, it brings me tremendous joy to bring spirituality into my paintings. The joy of being a Jew and living in Jerusalem.
What’s the most challenging part of your work?
The biggest challenge is to put deepness and spirituality into something physical. I want to bring meaningful insight into the way people view Judaism through my art.
What’s your dream project?
My dream is, for people to be inspired by my work, to strengthen the love of being a Jew, and to give back to the Jewish art community by being a good example.
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Yossi Bitton’s art will be on display at a special exhibition this Sunday, February 2, from 12 to 6 PM at 271 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213. For more, visit Leviim.com
Most unique art gallery in the world
I observe that the painting of the frierdiker rebbe with the rebbe was painted based on the drawing by shmuel goldstein and not off the actual photograph.
It’s beautiful either way.
http://www.art770.com/2011/02/rebbe-and-frierdiker-rebbe.html