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WHAT IS – JEWISH FINE ART?
At the end of the 18th century, the Jews of Western and Eastern Europe, sometimes forcibly, and sometimes joyfully and voluntarily, began to merge into the cultures of the surrounding peoples - a long life in the “ghetto” seemed to many burdensome and dragging them into the past. And for more than a century, Jewish artists (painters, graphic artists, sculptors) have been representatives of the culture of the people among whom they live; their artistic tradition is formed within the diaspora.
The fine arts of Israel were also formed mainly from trends and schools introduced by repatriate masters who arrived from different parts of the globe with new and new waves of aliyah.
Jews have always not only absorbed local customs, values, and priorities, but also actively influenced their environment. At the same time, Jews, including Jewish artists, were haunted by the desire to remain themselves, to preserve their individuality. Such multi-layered, multi-faceted Jewish consciousness was one of the reasons that distinguished Jews from the general environment.
Jews made a huge contribution to the history of art in many countries of the world, but this did not yet mean the emergence of Jewish fine art. The philosopher Martin Buber noted that the Jewish art school is not something that exists, but something that develops and can take place. And today, after many years, it is hardly possible to state the emergence of a Jewish art school, be it in Israel or in the countries of the Diaspora. The current situation is similar to that which existed a hundred years ago. A native of a Lithuanian town, the sculptor Mark Antokolsky created works on Jewish themes (miniatures “The Jew the Tailor”, “The Miser Jew”, “The Dispute about the Talmud”), but he entered the history of world fine art with monumental sculptural portraits from Russian history - “Ivan Terrible", "Nestor the Chronicler", "Peter the Great". Marc Chagall, whose Jewishness in art is seemingly easy to prove, is considered by art critics to be a Russian or French artist.
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Sýtin Haim Solomonovich
Khaim Solomonovich Sutin (1893, Smilovichi, Minsk province - 1943, Paris) - Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin. Artist of the "Paris School". Chaim Soutine was born in Smilovichi (now Chervensky district, Minsk region, Belarus) into a poor Jewish family and was the tenth of eleven children. The father of the future artist worked as a tailor (according to other sources, as a synagogue servant). From early childhood, Chaim showed a love for drawing and painting.
Tyshler Alexander Grigorievich
Alexander Grigorievich Tyshler (1898, Melitopol - 1980, Moscow) - Soviet painter, graphic artist and theater artist, sculptor. Alexander Tyshler was born in Melitopol (now the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine) in the family of a hereditary Jewish artisan (Tyshler means “carpenter” in Yiddish). In 1912-1917 he studied at the Kiev Art School, in 1917-1918 - in the studio of Alexandra Ekster. In 1919, Tyshler volunteered to join the Red Army; Serving under the administration of the Southern Front, he made posters for the windows of ROSTA, illustrated the first primers in the Kalmyk, Mordovian, Tatar languages, as well as in Yiddish. In 1921, after demobilization from the army, he entered VKHUTEMAS and studied in the workshop of Vladimir Favorsky. Until 1924, he was fond of non-objective painting; in 1925 he joined the Society of Easel Painters.
Yudovin Solomon Borisovich
Solomon Borisovich Yudovin (Shloime Borukhovich) (1892, Beshenkovichi, Lepelsky district, Vitebsk province - 1954, Leningrad) - Belarusian-Jewish and Soviet graphic artist, artist, ethnographer, representative of the “Jewish Renaissance” (“Jewish Revival”) and Art Nouveau.
WHAT IS THIS – JEWISH FINE ART?
At the end of the 18th century, the Jews of Western and Eastern Europe, sometimes forcibly, and sometimes joyfully and voluntarily, began to merge into the cultures of the surrounding peoples - a long life in the “ghetto” seemed to many burdensome and dragging them into the past. And for more than a century, Jewish artists (painters, graphic artists, sculptors) have been representatives of the culture of the people among whom they live; their artistic tradition is formed within the diaspora.
The fine arts of Israel were also formed mainly from trends and schools introduced by repatriate masters who arrived from different parts of the globe with new and new waves of aliyah.
Jews have always not only absorbed local customs, values, and priorities, but also actively influenced their environment. At the same time, Jews, including Jewish artists, were haunted by the desire to remain themselves, to preserve their individuality. Such multi-layered, multi-faceted Jewish consciousness was one of the reasons that distinguished Jews from the general environment.
Jews made a huge contribution to the history of art in many countries of the world, but this did not yet mean the emergence of Jewish fine art. The philosopher Martin Buber noted that the Jewish art school is not something that exists, but something that develops and can take place. And today, after many years, it is hardly possible to state the emergence of a Jewish art school, be it in Israel or in the countries of the Diaspora. The current situation is similar to that which existed a hundred years ago. A native of a Lithuanian town, the sculptor Mark Antokolsky created works on Jewish themes (miniatures “The Jew the Tailor”, “The Miser Jew”, “The Dispute about the Talmud”), but he entered the history of world fine art with monumental sculptural portraits from Russian history - “Ivan Terrible", "Nestor the Chronicler", "Peter the Great". Marc Chagall, whose Jewishness in art is seemingly easy to prove, is considered by art critics to be a Russian or French artist.
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Sýtin Haim Solomonovich
Khaim Solomonovich Sutin (1893, Smilovichi, Minsk province - 1943, Paris) - Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin. Artist of the "Paris School". Chaim Soutine was born in Smilovichi (now Chervensky district, Minsk region, Belarus) into a poor Jewish family and was the tenth of eleven children. The father of the future artist worked as a tailor (according to other sources, as a synagogue servant). From early childhood, Chaim showed a love for drawing and painting.
Tyshler Alexander Grigorievich
Alexander Grigorievich Tyshler (1898, Melitopol - 1980, Moscow) - Soviet painter, graphic artist and theater artist, sculptor. Alexander Tyshler was born in Melitopol (now the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine) in the family of a hereditary Jewish artisan (Tyshler means “carpenter” in Yiddish). In 1912-1917 he studied at the Kiev Art School, in 1917-1918 - in the studio of Alexandra Ekster. In 1919, Tyshler volunteered to join the Red Army; Serving under the administration of the Southern Front, he made posters for the windows of ROSTA, illustrated the first primers in the Kalmyk, Mordovian, Tatar languages, as well as in Yiddish. In 1921, after demobilization from the army, he entered VKHUTEMAS and studied in the workshop of Vladimir Favorsky. Until 1924, he was fond of non-objective painting; in 1925 he joined the Society of Easel Painters.
Yudovin Solomon Borisovich
Solomon Borisovich Yudovin (Shloime Borukhovich) (1892, Beshenkovichi, Lepelsky district, Vitebsk province - 1954, Leningrad) - Belarusian-Jewish and Soviet graphic artist, artist, ethnographer, representative of the “Jewish Renaissance” (“Jewish Revival”) and Art Nouveau.