Bois de Boulogne in Rain - yellow-red

Michel Minkovsky was born in Kiev Ukraine. There he completed secondary school and was a noteworthy student specializing in art 1985 when he graduated with honors from the Kiev Institute of Arts. Before immigrating to Israel 1n 1992 Minkovsky was selected to represent the Ukrainian painters league in a group exhibition that toured major cities throughout the former Sovjet Union and abroad. During that period he also created several monumental installations for various institutions.

A playful and festive atmosphere characterizes his older works, his colors are vibrant and celebratory and his subjects are primarily centered on musicians, lovers, and tress planted.

Acrylic on canvas building up the surface with deep sculpted textures and overlays of pigments, he interprets his paintings into original serigraphs and hand embellished serigraphs on canvas with a similar textural effect and achieves a luminosity of color through a combination of varnished inks and glazes.