Hava Intrator-Barak

Jerusalem Artist

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Born in Russia during World War II and immigrated to Israel in 1950.
Studied drawing in Israel and is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University's Philosophy Department (1968).
Teaches art, philosophy and history of art.
Membership: Israel Painters and Sculptors Association. Hava's painting focuses entirely on Jerusalem. Her work,  that previously portrayed the contemplative Jerusalem, now depicts the bright light of the city as a gateway to the desert.

"With glorious simplicity, the artist simply translated the light-headed hunger of that landscape onto the canvas. We recall that straightforward passage in Genesis 1:"And God said, let there be light; and there was light". Intrator-Barak said," Let the hills and the trees and bushes and  the white-washed houses and the endless sky, all mirrors of pure light, reverberate onto my canvas"- and so it was done. But we can no more say how she turns nature into its reverberation in pigment and canvas than we can say how God brought forth light and all that followed therefrom, including the artist and her creativity....

One thinks of Monet's Haystacks and his Cathedral at Rouen, captured day after day, season by season and moment by light-reflecting moment, as one follows Intrator-Barak's subtly shifting colors devouring the canvas, in turn devoured by the subtly shifting light that daily gorges itself on Jerusalem.
Rainy Day fills the browns and greys with deep scintillating darkness, the lightning-like rivulet strokes transferred from the skies to the mountainsides - heavenly Jerusalem becomes earthbound, earthly Jerusalem flexing heavenward. The Late Afternoon Sunlight turns brown to gold and pale green, and grey, again, to silver and white: we wince at the sudden
brightness of the landscape's smile. The Old City in Red and Fire adds subtle bursts and slivers of an almost Sienese orange-brown and clouds that gather like seraphim over the horizen line.

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