Background
Joram Rozov was born in Hadera, Israel.
Joram Rozov was born in Hadera, Israel.
In 1958-1962, he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 1962-1966, he studied at the Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.
He was a professor of art at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. After returning to Israel, he taught art and music at Hadera High School. In 1970, taught at the Youth Wing of the Israel Museum.
In 1965-1974, he served as Dean of Students at Bezalel.
In 1971-1973, he taught at Cape College in Cape Town, South Africa. Many of Rosov"s realist paintings document his immediate surroundings.
He paints landscapes of the Galilee, Hebron, Africa and Tuscany, as well as views of foliage, trees and sabra bushes. Pilots and soldiers are a dominant theme in his early work.
Rozov creates an atmosphere of portending destruction, with violence present in an indirect manner.
His painting is typified by attention to minute detail, combining local and European painterly traditions. 1967 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and Prince Rainier Prize at Biennale for Plastic Arts, Monaco.
(Full color museum catalogue of the 2009 Joram Rozov exhib...)