1. Abraham Palatnik was a Brazilian abstract artist and inventor whose innovations include kinechromatic art.
11 Facts About Abraham Palatnik
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Abraham Palatnik was Jewish, and his parents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
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Abraham Palatnik moved to Mandatory Palestine as a child in 1932 and lived there until 1947.
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Abraham Palatnik later took art classes at the Municipal Art Institute of Tel Aviv.
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Abraham Palatnik is considered a pioneer of technological art in Brazil for his early use of mechanical systems and light.
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Abraham Palatnik exhibited some of his works in the First Biennial of Sao Paulo in 1951.
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Two works by Abraham Palatnik are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Abraham Palatnik was trained in mechanics, physics and drawing in Palestine, where he remained from the age of four until his youth.
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The Cinechromatic Apparatus is an artistic object created by the Brazilian Abraham Palatnik, based on electromechanical experiments that aimed to release the kaleidoscope images in an orchestration.
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Abraham Palatnik founded, in 1953, in Rio de Janeiro, the Frente Group, with whose members he participated in group exhibitions in the cities of Volta Redonda, Resende and Rio de Janeiro he begins to design machines in which color appears in motion.
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Abraham Palatnik died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil on 9 May 2020 at the age of 92 in Rio de Janeiro.