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Josef Levi was born on 17 February, 1938, is a Josef Alan Levi is artist whose works range over a number of different styles. Discover Josef Levi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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1938

Josef Alan Levi (born February 17, 1938) is an American artist whose works range over a number of different styles, but which are unified by certain themes consistently present among them.

Josef Levi was born to Jacob Levi and Evelyn D. Levi (maiden name Speizer) on February 17, 1938, in New York City.

1959

Josef Levi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from the University of Connecticut, where he majored in fine arts and minored in literature.

From 1959 to 1960, he served to a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and from 1960 through 1967 he was in the U.S. Army Reserves.

From 1959 to 1960, Josef took some courses of Howard McParlin Davis and Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University which initiated him into the techniques of reproducing the works of the Old Masters.

1960

Levi began his artistic career in the 1960s and early '70s, producing highly abstract and very modernist pieces: these employing exotic materials such as light fixtures and metallic parts.

His first works, created in the 1960s, were wood and stone sculptures of women.

His first mature works were abstract pieces, constructed of electric lights and steel.

1966

In 1966, he received the Purchase Award from the University of Illinois in 1966, and he was featured in New Talent U.S.A. by Art in America.

1969

He was an artist in residence at Appalachian State University in 1969, taught at Farleigh Dickenson University in 1971 and was a visiting professor of art at Pennsylvania State University in 1977.

1970

In 1970, Levi's materials included fluorescent light bulbs, Rust-Oleum and perforated metal in addition to paint and canvas.

His works of this period are characterized by seeming more than the sum of their mundane materials, and each forced the viewer to reflect on his own perceptual relationship with the art.

At this time, Levi was being influenced by artistic works with magical and religious purposes, and he was able to transcend time in true modernist fashion.

1975

By 1975, Levi had transitioned to painting and drawing still lifes.

At first these were, traditionally, of mundane subjects.

Later, he would depict images from art history, including figures originally created by the Old Masters.

From 1975 to 2007, Levi resided in New York City.

He now lives in an apartment in Rome, where he is able to paint with natural light as he was unable in New York.

Before about 1975, Levi's focus was primarily creating still lifes, and the subject of his paintings and drawings were everyday objects.

Later, the majority of his work was based around reproducing and referencing subjects of art history, but even then, when his material pictured people instead of things, each work was described as a "still life".

Indeed, to Levi, the reproductions of art from which he works are the objects of a still life in the same sense as a flower or a bowl of fruit.

1980

Around 1980, he made another important shift, this time toward creating highly precise, though subtly altered reproductions of pairs of female faces which were originally produced by other artists.

It is perhaps this work for which he is most well known.

By 1980, Josef Levi's art had transformed into a very specific form: a combination of reproductions of female faces which were originally depicted by other artists.

The faces which he reproduces may be derived from either portraits or from small portions of much larger works; they are taken from paintings of the Old Masters, Japanese ukiyo-e, and 20th-century art.

Artists from whom he has borrowed include: Vermeer, Rembrandt, Piero della Francesca, Botero, Matisse, Utamaro, Correggio, Da Vinci, Picasso, Chuck Close, Max Beckmann, Pisanello, Lichtenstein.

The creation of these works is informed by Levi's knowledge and study of art history.

Levi pays great attention to the quality of his reproductions, and he must often employ magnifying glasses for the highly precise work.

Levi, in general, carefully preserves the facial expressions of his subjects, and major facets of their appearance, e.g. what sort of clothing the women are wearing.

In the generation of these pieces, however, fidelity is not absolute: colors are neutralized; scales are altered; angles are shifted.

The two works are made to fit together comfortably in a larger composition, eschewing the landscapes and interiors which were their backgrounds before.

Often the works combined are of very different sorts, and they create a strong contrast in the final piece.

Still, the works may have much in common; perhaps both works are three-quarter poses, or the women share an expression.

Through trompe-l'œil, Levi "unifies" the works and enhances the contrast, comparing the periods by, for example, the deterioration of the sources which marks their temporal origins.

1987

Levi's art has been featured on the cover of Harper's Magazine twice, once in June 1987, and once in May 1997.

2000

Since around 2000, Josef Levi has changed the style of his work yet again: now he works entirely with computers, using digital techniques to abstract greatly from art history, and also from other sources.

Two of the most important themes of Josef Levi's artwork are recognized to be: the female form, especially the face; and the similarities in visual aesthetics which transcend cultures.

Indeed, since the date his first creations, the vast majority of Levi's material has been taken from female characters in the art of others; and often multiple works are combined in his pieces in order to highlight the relations between the original works.

Furthermore, he has been inspired by a great variety of other artists.

Levi's works of art in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Albright-Knox Museum, among many others.