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After the School of Paris:
Israeli Art, 1930s-1940s
Opens July 2013
Modern art in Israel developed from and according to western concepts and values.
The impetus of modernism also powered its evolution. In the 1930s and 1940s, the
School of Paris played an important role in reinforcing Israeli modernism in all its aspects.
Israeli artists, among them Menahem Shemi, Michael Argov, Avigdor Arikha, Yitzhak Fraenkel,Moshe Mokady, Moshe Kastel, Shimshon Holzmann, Eliyahu Sigred, Zvi Shor and many others, worked in the style of the School, and were nourished and influenced by it. Supreme in Israeli art in the 1930s was Chaim Soutine. It was he who rejected the Jewish motifs of Chagall and Mané-Katz in favour of a rich and painful idiom of distorted images as if they were destined for the butcher.
The exhibition will trace the influence of the School of Paris, especially of Soutine on the Israeli artists of the time, in an attempt to respond to questions that arise in this context: Did this phenomenon demand expression in the European modernist spirit that prevailed between the two world wars and subsided in the 1950s?
Is there evidence of an international art style in Eretz-Israel at that time? And were there cultural practices in Israel in the 20th century that could be defined as aspects of "modernism"?
Chaim Soutine
Hill in Céret, ca. 1921-1922
Oil on canvas
Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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