Israel Prize in Sculpture and Painting Recipients - Israel Prize in Painting Recipients, Israel Prize in Sculpture Recipients, Dani Karavan (Paperback)

Chapters: Israel Prize in Painting Recipients, Israel Prize in Sculpture Recipients, Dani Karavan, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Reuven Rubin, Micha Ullman, Menashe Kadishman, Zahara Schatz, Michael Gross, Yosl Bergner, Anna Ticho, Yitzhak Danziger, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Lea Nikel, Marcel Janco, Mordecai Ardon, Zeev Ben-Zvi, Yigal Tumarkin, Joseph Zaritsky. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is Israel's national school of art, founded in 1903 by Boris Schatz. It is named for the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri (Hebrew: ), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 35:30). The Bezalel buildings, Jerusalem, 1913The academy was founded in 1903 by Boris Schatz. Theodor Herzl and the early Zionists believed in the creation of a national style of art combining Jewish, Middle Eastern, and European traditions. The teachers of Bezalel developed a distinctive school of art, known as the Bezalel school, which portrayed Biblical and Zionist subjects in a style influenced by the European jugendstil (art nouveau) and traditional Persian and Syrian art. The artists blended "varied strands of surroundings, tradition and innovation," in paintings and craft objects that invokes "biblical themes, Islamic design and European traditions," in their effort to "carve out a distinctive style of Jewish" art for the new nation they intended to build in the ancient Jewish homeland. The Bezalel School produced decorative art objects in a wide range of media: silver, leather, wood, brass and fabric. While the artists and designers were European-trained, the craftsmen were often members of the Yemenite community, which has a long tradition of craftmanship in precious metals. Silver and g...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=134873