Gay couple talking on the balcony in Tel Aviv artwork by israeli gay painter raphael perez   2010

Raphael Perez in hebrew rafi peretz is an Israeli artist known for his homoerotic gay art and colorful urban landscapes painted in a naïve style. He was born in Jerusalem in 1965 and grew up being exposed to the works of great painters by his father. Perez only began to paint at the age of 23 and studied art at the College of Visual Arts in Beersheba from 1989 to 1...