Here I discuss a piece entitled “Klezmer Musician” at the Jewish Museum of Art in Tulsa Oklahoma.
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Artist Talk | Susan Hiller
How does a contemporary artist represent the lost history of German-Jewish life? Susan Hiller, a film and video artist, spent three years photographing more than 300 street signs all over Germany whose names refer to a previous Jewish presence. The result, the exhibition “The J.Street Project”, uses the apparent banality of street names to explore unexpected ways that landscape can memorialize a people’s history.
Hiller, who lives in London, took visitors through the exhibition, explaining both her artistic process and her unique approach to connecting landscape and history.
View the “Artist Talk: Susan Hiller” program page: http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=prgm&task=detail&oid=213
View “The J. Street Project” exhibition page: http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=detail&oid=5
Duration : 0:43:56
Favorite Jewish Artists: Moise Kisling
My South African wife, who came to me late in life, is Jewish, and has spurred many new interests in me, one of which is a fascination with the many awesome accomplishments of talented jewish artists. Here are some beautiful works by the Polish-born Jewish artist Moise Kisling, 1891-1953. Like so many young artists of his time, Kisling moved to Paris in 1910 to continue his studies. When World War I intervened, Kisling joined the French Foreign Legion and fought until he was badly wounded at the Somme. He continued to live and paint in France for the next 27 years, during which he became a close friend of many Parisian artists, including Amedeo Modigliani. When war broke out again in 1940, he once more volunteered to fight. But when the French Army was defeated, Kisling knew his Jewish origins would be a problem under the Nazis, and he went to the United States. He lived in California until 1946, then returned to his beloved France, where he died in 1953.
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Sage Reynolds creates Paste Paper for new Szyk Haggadah
Artist at work. Sage Reynolds of Four Hands Design Studio creates the custom hand-painted paste paper of the new edition of The Szyk Haggadah (Historicana, 2008).
Drawn and first published during the rise of Hitler, the Passover Haggadah of Polish-jewish artist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) is a triumphant and enduring work of hope and courage, and the supreme expression of one artist’s love for his people and his heritage. The new luxury edition of The Szyk Haggadah, limited to only 300 copies, is a landmark of Jewish art and culture. For more information, please visit www.szyk.com.
Sage Reynolds (1948 – ) received his BFA from Florida State University and was awarded Certificates in Bookbinding and Printmaking by Croydon College of Art in Croydon, England. He is a masterful creator of custom paste papers for fine art books as well as a painter of miniatures. For more information about Sage Reynolds and his art, please visit www.sagereynolds.com
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Modern Jewish Art
We had the opportunity to visit Igal Fedida’s art gallery in Miami,Florida. Igal infuses torah into his modern art. Everyone connects to Judaism diffrently and through the arts many people can explore their Judaismgal Fedida, born and raised in Israel, moved to the United States at an early age to pursue a successful business career in construction, design and remodeling. Being of curious and deeply spiritual nature, however, he decided to take some time to get to know the World and he traveled to many distant and unusual pockets of our home planet. He enjoyed drawing, sketching and design since an early age and he discovered the love for photography during his travels, capturing images of nature and people alike.
Returning to Los Angeles, he enrolled in intensive photography study program at the UCLA. Exploring the world of photography, his need for expression drove him to develop a unique form where he combined Polaroid photographs with water color in order to deepen the effect of the image. In doing so he discovered that his need to express the nature and the World that surrounds us far surpasses the limited potential of photography. Subsequently, as if an invisible hand pointed a direction, the magic door opened and he was pulled into the world of painting.Completely self taught, over the time he developed his own fascinating style of contrasting images. His black and white collection clearly expresses his inner search of balance between order and chaos, good and evil and evermore constant yin and yang presence in life. On the opposite to this sharp collection stand abstracts filled with mesmerizing colors inspired by nature and God alike. Some of his paintings carry deep meanings about the creation and the world from ‘big bang” and Adam and Eve to modern day socialites while others are visually hypnotizing, energy filled abstracts of strikingly vivacious colors.
You can find Fedida at his Miami studio/gallery where he spend sleepless nights with a brush in his hand and a vision on his mind passionately driven to deliver to the world his ingenuous masterpieces.
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Favorite Jewish Artists: Modechai Levanon
My South African wife, who came to me late in life, is Jewish, and has spurred many new interests in me, one of which is a fascination with the many awesome accomplishments of talented jewish artists. Here are some haunting works by the Jewish artist Mordechai Levanon, 1901-1968. Born in Transylvania, Romania, Levanon immigrated to Israel in 1921, where he studied at the Bezalel Art Academy. Like so many of his fellow Israeli artists, Levanon was fascinated by the country’s special light and the way it affects color. Thanks to his splendid body of work and his many paintings of the holy cities of Jerusalem and Sfad, Levanon is considered a major pioneer of Israeli art, and has even been called “the Israeli Van Gogh.”
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TJC’s Modern Jewish Mom: High Holidays
http://tjctv.com Host Meredith Jacobs, author of The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat, brings you new and exciting ideas to make the jewish holidays fun and meaningful for the whole family! The High Holidays episode of Modern Jewish Mom features new recipes to sweeten up the New Year, a spicy spin on Rosh Hashana ritual, holiday-themed crafts for kids, fashion and fasting tips for moms, and more! Featuring popular kosher cookbook author Susie Fishbein!
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Portrait Paintings of Gedolim – Jewish Rabbis & More
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About the Artist:
Sigalit Ashvil-Bibi was born in Kutaissi, Georgia, in the USSR, in 1952. She graduated from the high school of Music and Art in Kutaissi, USSR, in 1969, and from the Academy of Arts, in Tbilisi, USSR, in 1973. She served an apprenticeship with a well-known professor in art, Mordechai Dzanashvili, from 1973-1983, and continued her art training at the New York Academy of Art from 1991-1993.
Ashvil is a realistic painter & takes great liberties with being a realist, as her aim is not to reproduce a likeness, but to paint the subject with a soul and give the viewer an inner vision of whom the subject is.
Today, being multi-talented as a piano teacher, having more than 35 years of experience, she is a beginner, intermediate and advanced specialist with a special approach for individual needs. She continues to exhibit her works with each of her annual recitals. She is a subject of biographical record in the Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in the World for her outstanding achievements.
Today she is highly recognized in both Israel and the U.S.A. for her diversity and ingenuity, especially in portrait painting.
When asked about her greatest accomplishments, Ashvil immediately points to her rabbinical portraits:
“I want my art to capture the essence of the soul of all that is good and true, so that people can catch at least a glimmer of it and pursue it in their lives.”
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marysecasol.com | Fiddler on the Roof – Famous Jewish Painting
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French Contemporary Artist Maryse Casol presents famous oil on canvas Melodie Yiddish (28″x22″ – 71x56cm – 2006).
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Music: If I were a Rich Man – Fiddler on the Roof.
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905.
The Fiddler is a metaphor for survival, through tradition and joyfulness, in a life of uncertainty and imbalance.
Maryse Casol is a French artist, poet, painter and fashion creator.
Renowned for her vibrant colours, exotic landscapes and blazing still lives, Casol now lives in the south of France where she focuses on painting masterpieces.
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Art Under Repression: A Soviet Jewish Woman’s Struggle for Artistic Freedom
Shannon Rosenblat, English (Dr. Anne Doyle) Art Under Repression: A Soviet Jewish Woman’s Struggle for Artistic Freedom
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