[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.
Cezanne painted 29 portraits and made countless drawings of Hortense Fiquet. He drew and painted his mistress in graphite, watercolor, and oil. The first painting exists only in a photograph, and the second was of Fiquet nursing their baby. Fiquet and Cezanne met in Paris sometime around 1869. Cezanne was a 30 year old painter …
This collection is from an Artsy editorial by Casey Lesser from June 10th, 2016, originally titled “These 20 Female Artists are Pushing Figurative Art Forward.” Casey’s full writing is below. Personally, I’m less interested in continuing the very legitimate fight to acknowledge female artists, and more engaged by the subject matter, with respect to the artist’s life, …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! I’ve been using the words “woodblock” and “woodcut” interchangeably, but I noticed some artists use woodblock to delineate a different type of printmaking. I keep getting confused about which is which, but everyone still knows what I’m talking about. Since my own ignorance is itching at me, I …
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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