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Hyperrealism

Upon returning from a stay in New York, David Frumer rediscovered the quality of Israeli light, which he depicted in a show at Julie M. Gallery. 

Adam Baruch, the noted Israeli art critic writes:  
“Meticulous pencil drawing in the hyperrealism style is the strong side of David Frumer, a young Israeli, an Avni graduate, who has exhibited throughout the world.   (Yediot Aharonot, September 9, 1979).”
Yet in the show where Frumer also included object-like assemblages Baruch is especially taken by a work that
is not of the tradition hyperrealism formula.”   He writes: it is] a well-executed work (window frames, laundry lines, laundry pins, plastic sheets, and sandbags). delicate, sophisticated work that is both brainy and sentimental.  A minimalist sensibility imposed upon hyperrealism.  A particularly Israeli work in the use of material, color, and internal contexts.” (Yediot Aharonot, May 2, 1992)

  Meir Agassi in Monitin and Talia Rappaport in Davar also observed the “Israeli light quality” in Frumer’s work.  According to Agassi:

 “The works are an Israeli specimen of hyperrealism, hyperrealism of light, big canvases dealing with the falling of light and casting of shadows on organic and or soft objects.” (February 1982)

Rappaport writes:

“The hyperrealism of David Frumer is certainly satisfying though he insists that he doesn’t see it as an end but as one of his means, a technique to deal with artistic problems, and in this particular instance, with the old, eternal problem of transferring the feel of light through art.” (January 9, 1982)

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