About the artist
Lautman is originally from Brooklyn,New York.He graduated from the Brooklyn Museum art school were he studied with Ben Shahn and Max Beckman.Graduate with honrs from the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts in Philadelphia in 1959.
Winner of two European Travel Scholarships,winner of the Wanamaker Prize and the “Title 3” U.S Government Grant.
His works has been shown at the finest galleries in the U.S and in Europe , in galleries sach as- The Brooklyn Museum,N.Y.,The Philadelphia Museum,the Famed Dance Gallery ,Paris,Gallery Sebastia Jane,Barcelona.
His works has been shown in Israel as well, in galleries and museums such as- The Opera house,The President House, The Dizengoff Gallery and the Goldman Galley.
Lautman made Aliya to Israel in 1971,first living in Safad,then In Tiberias and nowdays in Ramat Yishay.all those vunique places inspired is works,with strong attachment to the Magia of Safad and the celebration of nature reflected from the Kineret lake .
About his art
"Art is both the taking and giving of beauty. The turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the re-creation on another plane of the realities of the world - the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these" ( Ansel Adams American Photographer)
"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell something I only feel in my bones...." ( Franz Kafka )
Lautman describes:
From the beginning, I felt that the beauty topic it is the main purpose of art and is at the core of my unconscious motivations. A line from Edna St,Vincsnt Millay:"Fortunate they who, though once only, and then but far away have heard her sandal set on stone”
The artist has developed a delicate yet vibrant technique in watercolors and pastels.
His art represents actors in various costumers, dencers in their movements and his own imagination and interpretation to create worlds vever seen before.
The works are trips into fantasy of drawing and colors festive,and each picture establishing its own individuality .reality blends with fantasy.