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Dina Babaai
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Sa'adya Bahat
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Geula Bar On - Painter & sculptor Bar On Geula was born in 1941 in Israel. She studied painting and sculpture at "Avni" school, the art institute in Bat Yam, with the help of art teachers such as Eliyahu Gat, Shosh Batelhaim, Arie Lamdan and Moshe Green (who is from the university of Tel Aviv). Exhibitions: Solo exhibition - "Yad LeBanim", Risho LeZion 1992. Solo exhibition - "Art center", Rishon LeZion 1996. Group exhibition - "Holot" - Rishon LeZion, Ramat Gan. Group exhibition - "Nofim" - painters' association, Rishon LeZion. Group exhibition - "The wine day", Rishon LeZion. Group exhibition - The City Hall of Rishon LeZion.
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Dina Barazzani
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Barhama Avner
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Baruch Vind
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Tchiya Bat Oren - Artist, Poet, Journalist Born in Canada. Formerly editor of Home & Family radio program and writer of personal columns in the press. Author of professional and ideological books. In 1973 - A sharp turn towards poetry (seven books) and painting. Graduated from the State Art College in Ramat Hasharon. 1978 - One person exhibition at Jerusalem Theatre. 1981 - One person exhibition at Beit Livik Gallery, Tel Aviv. 1983 - One person exhibition at Beit Livik Gallery, Tel Aviv. 1985 - One person exhibition at the Yuval House, Ramat Hasharon. 1986 - Group Show, Herzlia Museum. 1992 - One person exhibition Beit Levin Gallery, Kfar Shmaryahu. 1994 - One person exhibition at Sarah Arman's Gallery, Tel Aviv. 1997 - One person exhibition Yad Lebanim, Raanana. The art of T. Bat-Oren is an attempt to embody aesthetical values with an urging necessity to communicate. Freedom of pure-abstract is therefore anchored on enigmatic forms without losing the spontaneity and dynamic rhythms of the spirit. To ignore the factor of content in a work of art, is to Bat Oren missing out on art's potential. Many paintings of diptychs expresses the artist's concept of a dual existence. No "picture of mind" is without its counterpoint - be it an exact contrast or a complementing outlook manifesting an acceptance, or a hope. Some of the individual paintings are previous "Adolescent" years, included here to serve the artist's present outlook of a basically dualistic world. Different heights and sizes of some chained diptychs, illustrate the "high" and spacious, versus the congested space of the "low", presented together as inseperable.
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Batya Avrarham
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David Ben Shaul Ben Shaul, a painter and a teacher at Bezalel started out as a designer of ceramics. The forms and decorative patterns of the vessels he created related to archaeological motifs and displayed an affinity with Canaanite art. During the 1950s, he created abstract compositions in pastel and in prints executed with wax colors and India ink. He soon returned to figurative painting in a quasi-surrealist style. Lithography is another favorite medium which Ben Shaul has employed in several series preoccupied with such themes as anxiety, death, and eroticism, and featuring shrouded figures and nude women. From the mid-1960s onward, Ben Shaul has focused on Jerusalem scenery in oil paintings and black-and-white drawings. These landscapes, saturated with images and symbols, are carried out in a spontaneous and expressive-rhythmic mode, evinced in the brushwork of the oils and in the linear strokes of the chalk and pencil drawings.
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Michael Ben-Dori
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BENI GASSENBAUER (born in 1947) Beni Gassenbauer born in France in 1947 and settled in Jerusalem in 1976. Gassenbauers medium is watercolor on paper and he very ably applies transparent layers of paint to create a very rich texture of sharp-focus images. He conveys a sense of drama and adventure in his color application, moving a seemingly random but nevertheless deliberate and rich pigment in the water puddle from the pale pinks of the morning light to the deep, dark shadows created by the harsh Mediterranean sun. This is Gassenbauers magic. His tools cannot be more prosaic, but with these simple elements he transforms the paper into a seemingly boundless field of space and light. Gassenbauer seduces the viewer to pause and take notice of all the details - a tree, a rock, a wall, or the distant mountains enveloped in the special hue of desert light. The sheer accumulation of details gives a sense of energy and animation to the unpeopled compositions. Particularly impressive, both from a visual and technical standpoint, is the artists interplay between the two-dimensional paper and the three dimensional space. Here, as in other works, Gassenbauers meditation on nature, while not intentionally religious conveys in it the immanence of the sacred. Marek Yanai, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, 1995
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Benny Efrat, after working in London at the end of the 1960s, became the first of the Israel Conceptual artists and influenced others in this direction (e.g. Neustein, Gitlin, Schwartz). His works were systems of components which spoke for themselves and sought to represent no more than the sum of their parts. In the mid 1970s his displays were accompanied by films, on the back of which the artist had painted.
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Yehuda Ben-Yehuda
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Yaakov Bershtain
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Blich, Bilu, Painter and Sculptor. b. 1950. Studies: 1975-78 Pratt Institute for Art, New York. Prizes: 1989 Minister of Education and Culture Prize.
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LUDWIG BLUM (1891 - 1974) Ludwig Blum was born in Czechoslovakia, and died in Jerusalem. The gifts of the artist were revealed in early youth with his drawings of peasants. His professional education commenced with the painter D. Cohen in Vienna, followed by studies at the Royal Academy, and finally in 1919, the Prague Academy. His service in the Austrian Army interrupted his studies for 5 years during World War I. The Academy was followed by the classical painter's pilgrimage to Holland, France and Spain. He was always a sportsman, and enthusiastic Zionist. In 1923, he settled in Israel and ultimately in Jerusalem. Ludwig Blum exhibited frequently, both in Israel and abroad. In 1933, one of his paintings "Jerusalem" received special mention at the Royal Academy, London. Four periods can be distinguished in the work of the artist. The first, which ended with his arrival in Israel, consisted of the search for a decisive style. Few paintings survive from that period. The second commenced with his arrival in Jerusalem. The atmosphere of the orient, the strong colors and the life of the bazaar were absorbed and mastered: the age-old alleys of the Old City, the walls of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives and the mountains of Moab for an ever-recurrent theme. In 1936, the Palestine Museum at Brno commissioned a vast canvas (8 x 2 meters) of Jerusalem. His third period commenced with Israel's struggle for independence. After his son fell in action with the Palmach, in 1946, at age 20, the painter and his wife became active members of the Home Guard, without interruption to his work. Many of the most interesting canvases date from that time. Blum became a front line painter. The war in Jerusalem and in the Negev, the fighters men and women the whole struggle of renascent Israel have all been presented by his vivid brush. All these canvases were dedicated to the memory of his son Eli. The fourth period began after the establishment of the State. The Old City has been replaced by the streets and markets of Mea Shearim and other views of the New Town and all of Israel from Tiberias to Eilat appear before us. In 1967, Ludwig Blum received the honorary reward of "Yakir Yerushalayim" for his artistic tribute to the city. Blum was a painter of love. He loved his country, and his country reciprocated that love. Today, Blum occupies a central place among the masters of Eretz Israel. His works are found in museums and private collections around the world. They increase in value and are much sought after by collectors. In 1988, a major exhibition accompanied by an important and beautiful catalogue was presented by Mayanot Gallery. It was one of a continuing series of fine shows of the works of early 20th century Israeli Masters shown by Mayanot Gallery.
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Boris Schatz The visionary founder of Bezalel, Boris Schatz had created most of his sculpture in Eruope before he immigrated to Eretz Israel and immersed his energies in the establishment of the school. He was the guiding spirit behind Bezalels cultural-artistic ideals and their practical application.
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--Benjamin Shiff-- was born in Cologne, Germany, and in 1933 immigrated to Israel at the age of two. At the age of 16, he joined the Palmach, and fought in the battle for Jerusalem during the War of Independence. One can define the artist Benjamin Shiff as a philosopher and poet, whos main means of expression is through painting. The guided path he took to develop as an artist was most unusual and spent a lifetime searching for the meaning of existence. He started studying Jewish Philosophy, Kabbalah and Hassidut at the age of 50. studies which had a profound and deep influence on his artistic expression. At the age of 45, Benjamin Shiff went to Austria to study the Old Master Technic. His works are beautiful and technically complete, his composition and color are outstanding and the effect of transparency that he achieves in his painting reflects in a flash the Jewish world of mysticism. Since he started painting his work is the center of his world. Benjamin Shiffs work is displayed in many places all over the globe. His poetic realism allows him to express in a naturally way his internal world which is stormy and complex, and he tries hard to solve the question of existence between poetic realism, or perhaps between cruel reality as it is and a yearning for idealism. Benjamin Shiffs work influences and entice the observer almost always to try expose the hidden secrets on the canvas, to deal with the eternal question of destiny and personal fate - Jewish and universal. During the last years he has also published three poetry books, and one book of prose.
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