Please find details of “Road to Safed” by Reuven Rubin
Elegant old olives trees surround the way of a traveler with a donkey. Rubin gives to the trees living characters. Created with impressionistic technique and restrained colors, everything is soft and weightless. The land and the nature play the main part, determining the calm atmosphere. Unique style of the artist makes paintings full of love and wisdom. This piece is like a beginning of inspiration, that would lead to in-depth discovery and reflection. Each detail and living part of the work strives upward.
Safed is one of four Holy Cities of Israel, in particular, there is a term “four lands of life” (ארבע ארצות החיים) referring to Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias. Take a look at other paintings that refer to this city.
Reuven Rubin
Reuven Rubin was a pioneering figurative Israeli artist of the mid-20th and one of the creators of the new Eretz- Israel style. The modernist artist is famous for gentle landscapes of Jerusalem and Galilee. In 1912, he arrived in future Eretz-Israel, which was still the part of the Ottoman Empire. The painter later wrote, that when he got off the ship in Jaffa, he realized that this was his land, where he would live.
Our gallery
In addition, please check our blog about “Jerusalem” by Reuven Rubin, the depiction of the Holy city that combines its antiquity and vitality. Besides, the gentle painting, that captures the moment of fresh early morning breeze during the hot days. Another Rubin’s artwork, a glass sculpture, depicts the story of “Jonah the prophet”. Besides, check our blog about his “Arad Camel Trainer”.
You can find a large selection of works by Reuven Rubin in Kings Gallery.
Kings Gallery is a leading fine art gallery established in Jerusalem in 1995. We strive to collect and sell the highest quality historic and contemporary Israeli and International art. Especially the gallery displays the artists from the early period of the 1920’s. In addition, Kings Gallery features leading up-and-coming young artists who will definitely be prominent names in the next few years.
