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Israeli Artist Paints a Path to Healing
There is something raw about the rough brush strokes in the work of native Israeli artist Rhea Carmi, and about her textured materials, such as sand and stone. But then, there also was a rawness to the tragedy that originally informed and inspired her work.
Spectator – ‘Time’: a Truthful Family Portrait
\”The black-and-white snapshots revealed little worlds and scenes I wanted to bring alive in color,\” said Shelley Adler, whose \”Shades of Time: The Extended Family of Shelley Adler\” runs through July 1 at the Workmen\’s Circle.
Sampling the Simchas
\”I avoid cliches,\” artist Mark Podwal said of his \”A Sweet Year\” exhibit. His witty, poetic new show at the Skirball Cultural Center, subtitled \”A Taste of the Jewish Holidays,\” instead offers food for thought.
Helnwein ‘Epiphany’ Afflicts Comfortable
In contemporary artist Gottfried Helnwein\’s painting, \”Epiphany I,\” an Aryan Madonna-like figure sits holding a naked, uncircumcised new born boy, while some SS officers stand around her, critically sizing up mother and child. The painting is a reproduction of a Nazi propaganda photograph in which Hitler was the central figure; here in the painting, the mother is.
\”Epiphany I: Adoration of the Magi,\” one of five works by Helnwein currently on exhibit at the Schmeidler-Goetz gallery in West Hollywood, is not the first work of art to explore an uncomfortable subject like the Holocaust.
A Great Beginning
Block\’s father owned the lithograph collection, because he was a childhood friend of Abraham Rattner\’s publisher, New York art dealer Bill Haber.
Catharsis Found in Haggadah Artwork
While Israeli artist Avner Moriah was creating \”Haggadat Moriah\” (Moriah Haggadah), his wife, Andy, was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia.
\”I sat next to her when the chemicals were dripping in,\” said the 50-year-old artist, in Los Angeles this week for an exhibit opening of his work at the University of Judaism. \”In Israel everyone davens and says \’Tehillim\’ when someone is sick, but I came up with images for the haggadah. When I started, the images were really small but as she got healthier, they became more colorful and more lively. When I finished [and Andy recovered] I realized that I had painted my own journey from Egypt.\”
Artist Evokes Jewish Strength — Overtly
Five years ago, veteran comic book artist Joe Kubert visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He expected to be moved, but since he and his parents had escaped from Poland before the Nazi genocide began, he assumed his emotional reaction would be relatively contained. Then, he saw something that struck him profoundly: \”Yzeran,\” the name of the shtetl where he had been born, etched on a wall filled with names of towns that had been completely obliterated in World War II.
This one word began a creative odyssey that found its completion this month, with the publication of \”Yossel — April 19, 1943,\” Kubert\’s graphic novel about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust — artistic, as well as physical — with the date in the subtitle referring to the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Symphonies in Paint
When she was 18 years old, Desy Safán-Gerard conducted an a cappella choir in her native Chile and won a yearlong scholarship to study musical composition in Jerusalem.
Today, the Venice-based artist has long since left music, but not her love of it. Now an abstract painter and psychoanalyst, Safán-Gerard insists the fields are not mutually exclusive, saying that her interests in music, in painting and in psychology are thematically linked.
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