April 17, 2024
menashe kadishman (7) SHEEP COLLECTION SERIES 7 (israeli artist) FINE PRINT
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Menashe KadishmanTel Aviv, Israel, 1932 - 2015"I believe that art grows from feelings and not rational calculations alone." - Menashe KadishmanKadishman was born in Tel Aviv where he studied with sculptors Moshe Sternschuss and Rudi Lehmann before attending St. Martin's School of Art and Slade School of Art in London. He remained there until 1972.He is a renowned artist whose work has been exhibited around the world at museums including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in the United States, Guan Shanyue Museum of Art in China and the Israel Museum. He has many permanent exhibitions across the globe.The works of Menashe Kadishman are fixated on the seminal biblical story of the Akeidah, the sacrifice of Isaac, which Kadishman has explored at length and used to touch on issues of war, pain, anguish, forgiveness, familial relationships, birth, rebirth and survival. The most frequent icon Kadishman employs is that of the ram that was sacrificed instead of Isaac.This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career. The first major appearance of sheep in his work was in the 1978 Venice Biennale , where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different
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