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artist ProFiLE ARTisT pROfiLe nEta dor LEmELsHtricH iSRael
in recent years has specialized in artistic printing. b.a. degree in History of art, Jerusalem University. Member of the israeli artists association,
and different international art associations. 31 solo exhibitions in israel, europe and Japan. Participated in numerous annual, biannual, triannual
exhibitions, and group exhibitions in israel, the U.S.a., europe, Japan, china, Malaysia, and korea. Received numerous prestigious prizes, gold
medals and awards, the last ones, 2001, in international exhibitions in Museums in Japan.

an aLmost ForgottEn QuaLity What
movEmEnt & FLow by neta dor (lemelshtrich)
by dr. MicHael Sgan-cOHen artist, art Researcher, lecturer and art critic authenticity. She acknowledges her emotional, romantic nature boats moored to the shore quiver with a movement which emanates
i perceive in everything, however “inanimate,” its peculiar flow. even
is completely credible in neta dor’s graphic creativity is her
and paints as she feels. in our age, when sophistication for its
from the bowels of the earth and rises towards the erect, antennae-
own sake threatens to turn art on its head, such authenticity is an
like masts, conveying the voices of nature: Today they are here,
almost forgotten quality. it consists in great part of naive innocence,
tomorrow they will be elsewhere - there is something enthralling
encompassing the world of symbols constructed by the artist, a
about this constant flux. nothing remains as it was, and the very
world of dolls, puppets, rocking horses and merry-go-rounds, and
attempt to immortalize a specific moment is paradoxical, the image
horses of flesh and blood. The authenticity of the works accords
itself having vanished before it could even be sketched on the paper.
them a particular validity and allows the artist to break out of her
in the new Milenum the world around us races ahead in tireless
immediate confines. in other words, whenever neta dor is indeed
pursuit of new and audacious achievements, and that’s as it should
“imprisons in her own image”, to the extent that she accepts
be, for nothing can stand still. Progress will come to pass whether
herself with unpretentious modesty and openness and takes care
we like it or not, but once in a while we should stop in our tracks
to listen both inwardly and outwardly, she manages to escape
to observe the little things around us, to realize that everything has
the psychological prison in which she - and all of us - are bound.
neTa dOR
its very own course and rhythm, no matter what we attempt to do
Moreover, she succeeds in creating a privet reality in which sorrow,
about it, and to contemplate permanence in the midst of change
loneliness and human frailty are diluted with hope and “almost
- arresting the mad race for a moment to search, reflect and look
mystic” longing for serenity and internal peace, both for man and for
inwards..
the world.

THOSe WHO aRe
and THOSe WHO aRen’T
cOMPUTeR dRaWing
Neta Dor, Shevet Menashe 24, Herzeliya Israel 32 x 48 cM
tel+972 9 9570836 fax+972 9 9583524 12½ x 19 in
netador@barak.online.net / www..artaddiction.se/dor.htm 2001
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