Dondi Schwartz

Painter, Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel

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Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in Tel Aviv, The Kibbutz Workshop for Painting and Creative Writing and at the Uta Patinkin Atelier. He studied photography at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University, Montreal. The artist's works travel freely between the decorative works of art nouveau to the deep thoughts of the surrealists, yet at times incorporating the simplicity of the naive artists. Through his paintings, we experience the freedom and nature of the rural Israeli life, where one dreams of connections to the natural surroundings. Schwartz has published several novels in Hebrew and has produced numerous independent films as documentaries & feature drama films that participated in film festivals and were screened in Israeli theaters and on the Israeli TV.