David Sharir was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv, Israel and currently resides there. David Sharir, the son of Russian immigrants, was born in Israel. Beginning his study of art in Tel Aviv and continuing in Florence and Rome, where he studied architecture and theater design. The brightly colored costumes and intricate stage designs he created for these productions have profoundly influenced his art. When Sharir moved to Old Jaffa in 1966, his hallmark style was truly developed. Studio, family, and spiritual devotion all serve as inspiration for the imagery in his work. His evolving style combines personal experience, Biblical symbolism, and fantasy. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know if the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk Kopel Gurwin. Sharir depicted biblical subjects with a touch of humour and designed sets and costumes for the theatre and opera. Graphic Art in Israel Today Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1973 Israel 1948-1958: Watercolors, Drawings, Graphics The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem 1958 Jean David, Yosl Bergner, Menachem Shemi, Zvi Mairovich, Ruth Schloss, Nahum Gutman, Moshe Elazar Castel, Marcel Janco, Abel Pann, Amos Yaskil, Mordechai Levanon, Reuven Rubin, Maryan, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Ludwig Blum. Education Avni Institute, Tel Aviv. Advanced studies with Aharon Kahana, Yohanan Simon and Israel Paldi. 1959-1961 Florence, Fine Arts Academy. 1964-1961 University of Rome, Architecture.