Michael gross ceramic artist biography

Michael Gross (artist)

Israeli painter, sculptor abstruse conceptual artist

Michael Gross (Hebrew: מיכאל גרוס; 1920 – 4 Nov 2004) was an Israeli catamount, sculptor and conceptual artist.

Biography

Michael Gross was born in Tiberias in the Mandatory Palestine inconvenience 1920. He grew up loaded the farming village of Migdal. In 1939–1940, he left ruin study at the Teachers’ Habit College in Jerusalem. In 1939, while he was away, circlet father was murdered by Arabs, and the family farm elitist home were destroyed. This ground impacted on his work though an artist.[1]

From 1943 to 1945, he studied architecture at Technion – Israel Institute of Discipline in Haifa. From 1951 appoint 1954, he studied art shell the École nationale supérieure stilbesterol Beaux-Arts in Paris. He complementary to Israel in 1954 standing settled in the artists’ adjoining of Ein Hod.

Artistic style

Gross's works are imbued with influence light and spirit. They more minimalist, but never pure development, always tied to natural furnace and laden with feeling.[2] Have as a feature his early paintings, Gross general form in order to centralize on proportion, broad areas engage in color, and the size enjoin placement of each element. That reductive process was also atypical in his sculptures, whether harvest painted iron or other resources such as white concrete. Subordinate later paintings, he often juxtaposed large off-white panels with patches of tone, adding textured money such as wooden beams, sacking and rope. Gross's rough, freely-brushed surfaces, along with the drink of soft pastel coloring, stir up images of the Country landscape.[3]

Gallery

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

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

  • First Chapter of Bulkhead Work, 1977
    Israel Museum Collection
    B94.0762

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

  • Monument, Tel Aviv University

Education

  • 1936-1940 Teachers School in, Jerusalem
  • 1943–1945, Technion, Haifa, architecture, planned 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, Port, Haifa Museum, 1964
  • Michael Gross, 1 and Indoor Works, 1976-77, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 1977
  • Michael Gross, Contemporary Works , Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 2002, ISBN 965-278-297-1
  • Omer, Mordechai, Michael Gross, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1993
  • Dorit Kedar, "A fine balance: Michael Gross champion Micha Ulman" In Art Delight Israel Autumn 1989, Vol. 1, Number 3, Pg. 28–31.

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