People on the Israeli Street 1990 - The Hidden under what can be seen Nurit Shany

I'm sharing with you a short Artistic personal journey through the Israeli streets of the 1990s. Scratching people at times of a peace-loving country.

Nurit Shany, The Dog Walker, pencil on paper, 33X20 cm, 1975

Nurit Shany, The Dog Walker, oil on canvas, 60X80 cm, 1975

Why would a woman get up in the morning to walk a dog that lives with her in her house?

Yes, it's true, he needs to pee, but I ask why she chose that situation?

I only see her through her appearance. Inside me I know that like her, I too hold and walk every day with my memories. For a moment she becomes an image and representation of me.

Only looking back, after 50 years of painting, do I realize that I was searching for the hidden. In the 1990s, when I started painting people, I saw their appearance and sought to find what exactly was going on inside them.

Today, in 2025, I already know the innermost, I am a spiritual guide, and in all the drawings, over the years, I mainly see my search.

In Kabbalah and Buddhism, there is attention given to the unknown, not knowing, emptiness from which insights, healing, peace and the "silence" arise, in which the processes of life occur and closeness to the unity of the Creator from within. In the 70s to the 90s, I did not have a "silence" in me, I had a noise of thoughts, emotions and desires which I sense in my attempts to capture the hidden through the figures movement and physical expression. The hidden remained hidden from me for years.

I hunted for moments, I searched for expression:

רישומים משנותה ה-90 לתערוכה בגלריה י.מ.ק.ה בירושלים

Then I discovered body language. Every gesture is like an unconscious dance that tells about an inner mood.

אישה יושבת על ספסל בכיכר דיזינגוף Nurit Shany, A woman resting on a bench, oil on paper, 31x23.5cm,1990 - SOLD

The weight of the chin, the hand and the pelvis, the joy.

Yet To whom is it directed? Here the story leaves the ending to your imagination.

Nurit Shany, A man by the ATM / A woman with a bag, oil on paper,50X70cm, 1990

How much money does he have in his account, judging by the nonchalant stance? What was she getting up for?

Nurit Shany, A man in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, oil on paper, 50X70, 1990, SOLD

What is he afraid of? The tension in the hand holding the armrest, his reserved look?

Nurit Shany, Two elderly women, Water color on paper, 20x33cm 1975

The tall woman is skeptical and intellectual and the short woman?

Nurit Shany, Mona Sabatin, pencil & oil on paper, 50X70cm, 1990

And the beautiful Mona Sabatin, whose every movement was one of peace, presence, and confidence in love.