Yoav Pour is an Israeli pop artist from the coastal city of Haifa. His work style can be ascribed to the abstract expressionist art movement. The most famous representative of this movement is the American artist Jackson Pollock. Read full bio…
Yoav Pour was born in 1960 in Haifa, Israel. He spent a significant portion of his childhood living with his parents in different foreign countries. This influenced his creative worldview and exposed him to different cultures. He continued traveling the world throughout his twenties, mainly in the Far East. During those trips he became familiar with the technique of making ancient silkscreen serigraphs.
In 1992 he established a silkscreen serigraph workshop in Tel Aviv, where he created artistic silkscreen printings for many painters. He was and still is considered an international expert in the field.
Yoav Pour also enjoyed painting as a hobby. Here he made use of the knowledge he acquired in the field of artistic printing—working with color compositions, layers, textures and materials.
His early works elicited such a favorable response from art lovers that he turned painting into his main focus in life. Yoav places special emphasis on the painting’s color composition. In some of his artworks, one can notice clear hints of calligraphy, influences of Latin and East Asian scripts, and to a certain extent—even musical notes.
His technique is impulsive. He never uses brushes or painting knives, only spray paint and mainly his hands— to spray, spread, and drip paint. His work style can be ascribed to the abstract expressionist art movement. The most famous representative of this movement is the American artist Jackson Pollock. His works can also be ascribed to the URBAN STREET ART movement. They display a clearly visible relationship to graffiti.