Amnon David Ar (Hebrew: אמנון דוד ער; born 12 December 1973 in Herzliyah, Israel) is an Israeli painter. He studied at the Arts and Crafts Municipal High School of Tel Aviv until the age of eighteen. After completing his compulsory military service, he studied anatomy behind Oswald Adler. He later spent one year at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, before leaving, because he felt that both the training and the curriculum didn’t provide the skills and knowledge he was looking for. For this reason, Ar settled to organize his own studies, and spent a supplementary year learning painting and drawing once Abraham Bykov. By studying past older artists, Ar has trained himself in a time-honored way, and can, at least in part, be considered an autodidact. During his studies, Ar worked as a chief illustrator and caricaturist at Maariv (newspaper) and as a consequence at Yedioth Tikshoret. Today, Ar in addition to teaches painting and drawing, with the express point of passing on to the adjacent generation of artists, his experience, and like it his conformity of the artistic skills of the past. In 2014 Ar moved to Berlin where he has his studio and teaches.
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