Ted Barr

Theodor barr was born in Constance near the black sea and grew at Tel Aviv, Israel. Barr s first painting guide was s. zafrir, an old Israeli master, that since 1995 provided him with the basics of drawing. Theodor barr is a self made artist with broad education in the area of astronomy, mathematics, literature and history, so far two of his books where published, one of them is ?frau gruber? s camp?, that appeared in 2006, a thrilling allegory about German history. And a children book named ?krombee?. Barr wrote about twenty articles that were published in the Israeli media. His current pictures are motivated from the deep space photos, sent to earth by the Hubble telescope, on big canvases 150x110 or 120x120 cm he mixes rare combination of tar, acrylic, oil and lazur colors in order to capture the dark and glimmering essence of the deepest space and the most fantastic galaxies, planets,, white dwarfs and red giants. The technique used by barr is multi layers mixtures of dark cold tar and bright acrylic colors, on them oil and lazurs that gives the impression of bizarre unique individual world. It is impossible to compare barr works to any known painter; barr developed, especially in his latest tar based pictures, a private language, with multiple esoteric meaning. His latest body of works are ?human forming? ? inspired by embryos photography by lenart nilsson and ?emerging from the white? ? the combination of the two worlds the smallest? embryos, and the largest, galaxies that stem from the white canvas rather than the dark tar.