Michal Na’aman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michal Na'aman
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 19, 1951(1951-11-19)
Age	73
Birthplace	Kvutzat Kinneret
Country	Israel
Birth City	Northern District
Horoscope	Scorpio

Michal Na'aman Biography

Michal Na'aman is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on November 19, 1951 in Kvutzat Kinneret, Northern District, Israel. Michal Na’aman was the youngest of four children born to historian Shlomo N’aman, and Leah Kupernik in 1951. Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret was where she grew up. Her father was a teacher at the regional high school, and her mother worked in the joint school. Na’aman recalled that her parents’ non- pioneer careers drew a skepticism from the kibbutz members in an interview years later. Na’aman said that her family was “a little like lepers” in Israel. “And the fact is, they were thrown away.” She fled with her parents to Lod in 1964. She was still in high school and she attended the “Margoshilsky High School for Art”, Tel Aviv. She continued her art studies privately with George Shemesh.

Na’aman started using collage and photography in the 1970s as a central component of her work. Na’aman used photography as a key component of her collages. This allowed her to present clear visual images of sexuality, sexual perfection, and a preoccupation about her fake and real identity. Na’aman used photographs of Zalman Shoshi and Uri ZviGreenberg in her “Blue Retouch” series (1974-1975). She also used images of a female criminal, whose eyes had been gouged out. These photos were subject to a “retouch”, which was done with a blue pencil. This enhanced certain details.

Another work shown in the exhibition was the photograph “Daughter of Israel” (1974) – photographic documentation of an “activity” in which Na’aman wrote a text taken from Ultraorthodox warning notices about modesty, on a piece of paper attached to her arm as a sort of splint. Na’aman’s use, in a critical way, of Jewish traditions in her work was characteristic of other works she created during the 1970s.

In 1974, Na’aman exhibited her works in the exhibition “Five Young Artists” in the Kibbutz Art Gallery in Tel Aviv. The other artists who exhibited along with Na’aman were Tamar Getter, David Ginton, Nahum Tevet, and Efrat Natan, who knew each other through their connection to Raffi Lavie. On her work “A Kid in Its Mother’s Milk” (1974), which was shown in this exhibition, Na’aman wrote a text that transferred “the religious, Talmudic law to a national, secular reality” in both a private and a national context. The Biblical text “A Kid in Its Mother’s Milk” appears on a piece of exercise book paper next to the text “A Country That Eats its Young”, as well as in pink letters on the wall of the gallery. The work was heavily criticized during the exhibition. Yehoshua Kenaz, for example, the editor of the Culture Supplement of the newspaper Haaretz at the time, described the work as “trickery”.

Na’aman started studying at Hamidrasha’s Art Teachers’ Training College in

1969. This was right next to the Beit Histadrut Ha-Morim (Teacher’s Union House). At Hamidrasha, she studied art alongside Ran Shechori and Dov Feigin. Na’aman, along with other Lavie students, adopted Lavie’s artistic language which involved scribbling, collage and other styles like “Want of Matter”. Na’aman’s works were distinguished from Lavie’s by the presence of textual images in her works. This separated her work from Lavie’s emphasis on separation of “form” and “content”.

Michal Na'aman Net Worth

Michal Na'aman is one of the richest Artist from Israel. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michal Na'aman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michal Na’aman, born 1951 in Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret, is an Israeli painter. Her work can be described as conceptual art from the perspective of values. It deals with topics such as the limits of sight and language, expression possibilities, and gender issues. Na’aman uses collage techniques to create works that focus on the visual rather than the verbal way of thinking. Her work was honored with the Israel Prize for Plastic Arts in 2014.

This image came from the “Jastrow illusion”, which raises questions about the identity of the visual image that was named after Joseph Jastrow, an American Jewish psychologist. The image was taken from the book Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953). Na’aman used stencils and dribbling color in her paintings from this time. The paintings were dominated in red and black shades and were made of strips of newspaper that were laid along horizontal and vertical axles like a cross. The “rabbit-duck” cross images were accompanied by text fragments and sentences in English that relate to the notion of identity. Na’aman stated that the works were about “the increase of genetic reproduction” in family photos and the reciprocity between people and the world. These works were exhibited in 1980 by Na’aman at the Gallery of Bertha Urdang, New York.

In 1972, Na’aman completed her studies in the History of Art and Literature at Tel Aviv University. In this same year she exhibited some of her works in a group exhibition at “Gallery 201” in Tel Aviv.

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On December 23, 1975, Na’aman’s first solo exhibition opened in the Yodfat Gallery in Tel Aviv. It was the last exhibition mounted in this gallery before it closed. In the review in the newspaper Al HaMishmar, Chana Bar-Or wrote about the works in Na’aman’s exhibition that they represent “one long, difficult system of ‘conceptualism’ trying to break out of the concept”.

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Michal Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Israel. Michal Na'aman celebrates birthday on November 19 of every year.

Scopophilia, 1976 Mixed media and collage on cardboard The Israel Museum, Jerusalem