Yechiel Kriza

In Israel, Kriza worked in orchards and also dabbled in weaving, a fact that later influenced his creative style and the content that appeared in his works. During his work in the orchards, he met the painter Pinchas Abramowitz, and began studying painting with the painters Yosef Zaritsky and Avigdor Steimatzky. Kriza then traveled to study painting in Paris, France.

At the beginning of his artistic career, Kriza painted mainly landscapes and nature paintings, mostly in watercolor or gouache. Towards the beginning of the 1950s, Kriza experimented with expressive painting, and painted paintings of workers or landscapes, mostly in gouache. In the 1950s, Kriza was a member of the "New Horizons" group, and many of his paintings are in the abstract style that was characteristic of the group. In the 1960s, he also participated in the "10+" group and even exhibited in the group's exhibitions. For a certain period, Kriza experienced a "white period" in his work, which was characterized by large-scale paintings in layers of white paint.

Kriza won the Dizengoff Prize for Art twice