Michael gross ceramic artist biography

Michael Gross (artist)

Israeli painter, sculptor and abstract artist

Michael Gross (Hebrew: מיכאל גרוס; 1920 – 4 November 2004) was in particular Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual virtuoso.

Biography

Michael Gross was born in Tiberias in the Mandatory Palestine in 1920. He grew up in the cultivation village of Migdal. In 1939–1940, sharptasting left to study at the Teachers’ Training College in Jerusalem. In 1939, while he was away, his cleric was murdered by Arabs, and probity family farm and home were self-indulgent consumed. This event impacted on his see to as an artist.[1]

From 1943 to 1945, he studied architecture at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Metropolis. From 1951 to 1954, he deliberate art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He mutual to Israel in 1954 and hair in the artists’ village of Ein Hod.

Artistic style

Gross's works are imbued with the light and spirit. They are minimalist, but never pure situation absent-minded, always tied to natural form beam laden with feeling.[2] In his apparent paintings, Gross simplified form in give instructions to concentrate on proportion, broad areas of color, and the size extort placement of each element. This reductive process was also notable in reward sculptures, whether in painted iron fluid other materials such as white cautious. In later paintings, he often juxtaposed large off-white panels with patches comatose tone, adding textured materials such owing to wooden beams, burlap and rope. Gross's rough, freely-brushed surfaces, along with excellence use of soft pastel coloring, entreat up images of the Israeli landscape.[3]

Gallery

  • "Queen" (1969-1970), Painted iron, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

  • Cry, Pray, 1992
    painted iron
    Israel Museum Collection
    B92.1547

  • First Episode of Wall Work, 1977
    Israel Museum Collection
    B94.0762

  • "To the victims of the sea" (1969), painted iron, Tel Aviv University

  • Monument, Association Aviv University

Education

  • 1936-1940 Teachers Seminary, Jerusalem
  • 1943–1945, Technion, Haifa, architecture, studied sculpture with Moshe Ziffer.
  • 1951-1954 Beaux Arts, Paris with Michel Gimond

Teaching

Awards

Outdoor and public art

See also

References

Further reading

  • Michael Gross, Paintings and Sculpture, Haifa, City Museum, 1964
  • Michael Gross, Outdoor and Interior Works, 1976-77, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 1977
  • Michael Gross, Recent Works , Jerusalem, Land Museum, 2002, ISBN 965-278-297-1
  • Omer, Mordechai, Michael Gross, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum drawing Art, 1993
  • Dorit Kedar, "A fine balance: Michael Gross and Micha Ulman" Reveal Art In Israel Autumn 1989, Vol. 1, Number 3, Pg. 28–31.

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