[image_with_animation image_url=”11664″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] For the purpose of torturing my Still Lifes Class with a level of realism few on the planet can reproduce, here are some Still lifes by Israel Hershberg.
Israel Hershberg lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel. While he is known primarily as a landscape and figurative painter, his realist and minimalist still life compositions make me all tingly. Notice how the quiet muted colors and the calm centered compositions compare to paintings by Morandi.
[image_with_animation image_url=”9204″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Yesterday I posted a fragment of a sculpture and asked you to guess when it was made and who made it. I worded my question to be misleading by asking specifically “who” and “what year.” Some of the guesses I received were: Brancusi, 1952? Isamu Noguchi? Henry Moore late …
Welcome to day 25! Only five more days to go in our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Tuesdays are “See and Respond” days. Today I have the head and feet of a figure drawing by Paul Cezanne. Your job is to fill in the middle. You can use the original drawing below and make a transcription …
March 13, 2020 was the League’s first day in quarantine. March 20, 2020 was scheduled to be League artist Lucy Garnett’s ‘Notations’ show reception at Shoreline City Hall. It was half a lifetime of work, and the League-hosted celebration was canceled. Here’s a look back at one of her pieces that seems to have an …
For 30 years Stuart Shils painted urban skylines and tuscan landscapes, painting outside or by looking through the window. He simpliefied the landscape into bright, vague, and subtle studies of color. Now he’s at that same window, his view turned inward, making collage, camera and light projections. They’re called Window Collages. The titles are poetic/scientific documentations: night …
Israel Hershberg’s Quiet Still Lifes
[image_with_animation image_url=”11664″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] For the purpose of torturing my Still Lifes Class with a level of realism few on the planet can reproduce, here are some Still lifes by Israel Hershberg.
Israel Hershberg lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel. While he is known primarily as a landscape and figurative painter, his realist and minimalist still life compositions make me all tingly. Notice how the quiet muted colors and the calm centered compositions compare to paintings by Morandi.
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