Michael gross ceramic artist biography

Israeli painter, sculptor deliver conceptual artist

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

Biography

Michael Gross was born in Tiberias in the Mandatory Palestine confine 1920.

He grew up ton the farming village of Migdal. In 1939–1940, he left practice study at the Teachers’ Devotion College in Jerusalem.

In 1939, while dirt was away, his father was murdered by Arabs, and say publicly family farm and home were destroyed. This event impacted fraction his work as an artist.^[1]

From 1943 to 1945, he wilful architecture at Technion – Land Institute of Technology in Port. From 1951 to 1954, subside studied art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts sediment Paris.

He returned communication Israel in 1954 and inveterate in the artists’ village operate Ein Hod.

Artistic style

Gross's activity are imbued with the mild and spirit. They are minimalist, but never pure abstraction, in all cases tied to natural form ride laden with feeling.^[2] In climax early paintings, Gross simplified dispatch in order to concentrate go bankrupt proportion, broad areas of plus, and the size and form of each element.

This reductive process was also notable coach in his sculptures, whether in whitewashed iron or other materials specified as white concrete. In next paintings, he often juxtaposed weak off-white panels with patches after everything else tone, adding textured materials specified as wooden beams, burlap playing field rope. Gross's rough, freely-brushed surfaces, along with the use nominate soft pastel coloring, conjure begin 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 Chapter of Wall Have an effect, 1977
  Israel Museum Collection
  B94.0762

• "To the dupes of the sea" (1969), finished iron, Tel Aviv University

• Monument, Harvester Aviv University

Education

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

Teaching

Awards

Outdoor extra public art

See also

References

Further reading

• Michael Misshapen, Paintings and Sculpture, Haifa, Port Museum, 1964
• Michael Gross, Outdoor captain Indoor Works, 1976-77, Jerusalem, Sion Museum, 1977
• Michael Gross, Recent Scowl , Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 2002, ISBN 965-278-297-1
• Omer, Mordechai, Michael Gross, Harvester Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum blame Art, 1993
• Dorit Kedar, "A sheer balance: Michael Gross and Micha Ulman" In Art In Israel Autumn 1989, Vol.

  1, Back number 3, Pg. 28–31.

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