What topics do you address in your work? Describe some real
situation that inspired you?
Chayim Shvarzblat: For the most part I'm not dealing with a
topic in the work for now, all in all, I've just done a couple of works that
actually cover some of the topic. One real situation that inspired me to work
was to paint the Holy Trinity Square in the atmosphere of nightlife. As I used
to have an atelier in Paris, every time I would come home from the studio at
night on the weekends, I would have to go through a crowd of drunk people, of
different subcultures, most of them listening to music. As the Fortress in Paris
is the oldest part of the city, rich in cultural values, so I wanted to portray
the decadence, the contrast of "cultural" and
"non-cultural", and to emphasize all this big-city spirit to paint
different motives of human weakness.
