Raviv’s work has been described as “synthetic realism” (a term coined by the American Master Painter Knox Martin),
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Among her teachers were: Roberto Delamonica, Bruce Dorfman and Knox Martin.
William Knox Martin, a Virginia-born early aviation pioneer and flyer, and his wife Isabel Vieco, who were married in the Canal Zone in Panama in 1921.
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Flatly and freely painted in brilliant colors, his works have often been executed on a grand scale, as in the outdoor wall painting, Woman with bicycle, at West Houston and MacDougal Streets in Manhattan.
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His work is described by critics and other artists as “fierce,” “at once raw and refined” (Donald Kuspit); “vertiginous and confrontational” (Knox Martin); “figurative, abstract and American” (Edward Lucie-Smith); “complex and luminous” (Ruth Bass); and “vibrant with near violent colors” (Harold Rubin, The Rivington Gallery, London, UK).
Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Paul Jenkins and Cy Twombly.