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Matan Ben Cnaan: Paintings
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The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative - Realist Art, 2017
Matan Ben Cnaan (b. 1980) combines figurative language with classical and
contemporary concepts, maintaining boundary-crossing contexts even when
he deals with local light and landscape. Biblical themes are his trigger for charged situations with personal interpretation. Ben Cnaan places these myths in a banal reality, deconstructing them from their heroic representations. In 2015 Ben Cnaan won the National Gallery's BP Portrait Award for his painting Annabelle and Guy (2014).
![Show gallery of 4 images The Trespasser, 2017](https://storage.googleapis.com/tama-static/images/MBC4.width-880.jpegquality-75.jpg?Expires=1722271878&GoogleAccessId=tama-static-files-uploader%40tama-website.iam.gserviceaccount.com&Signature=P5Au0719OmX6DQfcbMFb6tgTwZFGtJbLp82mO7KXWgYsEFAjB8W%2FOTSKXBY6Z7m8ngTfS9jxe4ipIVEub3XPvRtIQP8LdX5h3aTyg%2BFmHRMxW9B4v5phDUawsqOpmgK1%2F6KB6i8wwWM6%2BsvPRVK7DXbMOgGjf%2Fvhmd6278cyFbXNsveEO2mz5IKIz3n10jVQ8d8CGD%2F4THmQIdEFHypXOWJfZyvHz4aMBqVzDFdvDIi7eKPESUKalfqobKvNCMj06tFvZ4wCHTaSvqVg78Saa2%2F6DIlHdm66PaoM3C22sJoGbXmvneUU3huQhJR2IkIqBWoI6mmEmXHraLA3%2F3YKKA%3D%3D)
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The Trespasser, 2017
Courtesy of Karen W. Davidson, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA