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'Thursday, April 16, 1953 Page C Thursday, April 16, 195,: THE JEWISH POST Page B THE JEWISH POST .,-~ ,-

MARCEL JANCO

Bo1'n in Bucharest in 1895, MaTcel Janco beg,,,, his aTt studies at the age of fifteen with th" painter IseT. In 1916 he was a student in Z"T" ich when) togethe1' with A111, Ba.!l, Hulsenbech

allod Tzm"aJ he was a fou.nder of the inte}'na~ tionaZ move1nent in art and lite'fature DADA. He then collaborated in the publication and illustration of DADA magazines and p(Lj'tici­ pated in internationaL DADA exhibits in Zurich with Arp, Braque; Klee, Kokoschkn, Picabia, Richter and othe,·s.

After breaking with Surrealism in its rom(Lntic and literary phase, he "eturned to Bucharest in 1923 and became the Leade,' of the avant garde CONTIMPORANUL group.

In 1940, he emigrated to Palestine, whe,.e he soon becante a leading pe1'sonality in the artistic (Lnd cu!tumL life of the count'·lI. He pLaye.d a chief role in the creation of the NEW HORIZONS group of modern m·tists in Israel.

Since his a:rrival in Israel his paintings have been Israeli in content, He has captu1'erl the feeling of the locale and assimilated into his creative wm'ks the new environntent of the FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN , 1951 GROSS country, with. its speciaL perspective and unusual light.

CHAIM GROSS • JANCO Chai1lt. Gross, artist, 8culpto1' and carve1', can malce a piece of wo.od dance, bOl1.. nce, do NAZARETH, 1950 cartwheels and walk the tight?'ope, His is effervescent ar!.~ al'ive, MOSHE CASTEL Like his and carvings, that 'I'ise out of solid blocks of h.ard wood, Chahn Gross has Tisen out of the 1T/..dting pot of Ame1'ica. , .. .. B01'n in a village in the Ca'rpathian Mountains, east of , he found h.is first opportunity ~' I Moshe Castel is the m.. ode1'n 1'epTesentative of a fa1nHy that first came to Palestine fro111. . SFain fo"r hund,.ed and fifty years ago. Bon, in , he settled in Safed, one of the to develop his talents when he came to the United States at the age of 17. He "eceived his "•, early a·)'t training at the Educational AUiance in Lowet lVlanhattan and late I' studied at the holy cities of Israel, an.d. now 1'esides on the "Boulevard of Painters" and in that milieu the Beaux Art Institute, rapidly attracting Iwide attention in the n'rt world with his wood t"adit;o1lS of his people and the modern influences of his tmining 1tnited in the creations of carvings acrobats in action, his palette. Due to his knowledge of the climate and unusuaL light of S(Lfed, he has been of ,. I ; able to put these 'l"lLysterio1{.s qualities onto h.is canvases, medi1!.1n; his co · , Gross' v€1'satility extends to othel' aTt water lOTS and d1'awings catch and en111.. esh jltst the ki'nd of rays and COl01'S of n~lture and life that are bound to cnst a spell on , ' Castel left Israel in the late twenties and studied first in ItaLy and the" in Pm'is at the you and hold you, Illust1'ate.d on these pages aTe two e.Tu11/..1]les of watercolors tiw,t Gross Academie Julien. He was greatly influenced, at the time, by Valminck ,end Utrillo. One of painted dUTing a 'recent visit to iTsneL He was particularlu im,pressed with Safed ~ the Castel's qualities is that of change. In later years his works show the traces of the Seplw.rdic painter's paradise. life of his youth, followed by the influences of Rou(Lult, then Clw.gall and picasso. ! . Chaim, Gross has presented to the Am.eracan Fund faT Is;~ael Institutions.. for the MUSC1L1ns , " of Israel, one oj his sCulptu1'es) "Pride," a six-Joot female figure, carved in primave1'fL wood Recently his works have abso"bed the qualities the Orient. His ,,,,tive appmach Tenounces '.-' of (white rnahogany), This handso1ne jigu1'e was carved in 1945 over a period of seven m.onths . . I three dimensional painting and perspective and pl'oceeds to decorative painting which is She stands 11'wjesticarly and with dignity. nPride" possesses chunn, e1not-ionctL appeal and. satisfied with two dimensions, highlighted by an 1musuaL sense of color. The flaming "ed SCu,lptltraL quaLity of a high ol'der. It is i1npel'sonal, yet it hus wa1'mth anct depth, and is of the tarbush, the green syca1nore and the violet blue which aTe an integral paTt of tlte evi.dence of Chai111.. Gross' interest in Hfe and pctrticularty in the fo1'111..s which give it shape 0) iental fife beC01ne alive in CasteL's canvases. m'ld meaning.

" .' NAHUM GUTMANN ,-".'. ,.di";, • • JOSEPH ZARITZKY . Nahu1n Gutl1tann, son of S, Ben Zion, Hebrew aut/LOT . " -'. ;, ~ . '- ! . .I and one of tlte founders of , is: " gmdn"te of . . •. ,::, ..:' .. J, the Hel'zlia Gyrn,nasia, Tel Aviv, He studied at tlte Joseph Za1-itzky) born in the ~ a. stu­ ;< (. , , Bezalel Art School an.d in Vienna and Pa1'is, He is (t dent of the Academy of Kiev, was one of the ".' .:) ':' :. , . student of the French School, fol~owing the p,.imitivism fiTst artists to emigmte from abroad and settle , of Rousseau, but it 18 to the Egyptian art that he credits I in P(Llestine. With the exception of a b,~ef his {nspiration, Gut'mann was one of the first to pl'epa'l"'e sojOU1'l" in PaTis in 1927, he has lived an.d a way jar Israe~ painting, Together with several other worked in Ismel since his in 1923. a,.,~val . artists he aspired toward independence, as an expres­ Pri'l"narily a coloTist ~ he was a disciple ot sion of the longings to take root, so cha1'acte1'istic of the 'Segonzac~he dwells on the colo1' va1'iations of general mood of Israel during the twenties. Gutnw.nn light in Ismel, painting a single subject as stal"ted puinting as a child, using the 1neditn11..s of oil many as a hundred times to exploit aU the and water colorJ but his strength did not lie in heavy potentialities of its va1'ied aspects. ZaTitzky's oa colors, but in Hght aquuTels, He perfected his wate1' ~' " .. ' characte1'istic impulses and synlputhetic ilogi­ . colol' technique (Lnd 7ll..Ost of his 1'ecent works are in this ; . cality are better suited to the b'nnspa1'ent and m,caiu1n, fluid medh,m of wate,·-coLoT. The struggle between color and fon11.. is a striking element Typical oj the versatility of IS1'aeli cultuTallife, Nahum.. in his work) and the f01'YIler is the victo?'. G1ttmann~ in addition to being a prominent lJaintel', has Zaritzky's "most outstanding chaTacte1'istic is also earned an i1nportant niche j01' hi'l"nsetj as an ilI7ts­ his love oj space, broad horizons and synthesis trataT of adult and children's books. He has a fine a",l between s1(..p€1'fi.cial lines, spaces and pLc~l1es. t1'anspa1'ent quality of humor in his worle. He has built fL fine 1'eputation as an autho1' of very channing and Zaritzky has for many years been the guide delightful children's books, and is 1'ecognizecl as a suc­ of many of the younger a"tists in IsraeL. In cessf"l st"ge designer fm' Ohel Theat,·e. addition to his painting: he was one oj the ,> - founders of the oTganizcction of the Association ',' \~u! {i •.. ,. '. A vetel'an of the Jewish. Legion d1L1'ing WO'rid War I, , .'" of Artists and SculptoTs andJ (IS chainna~l .0J , Gutmann has lived in Israel since he was seven yeaTS , this group, O1'ganized 1nany gene1'CLl exlnbtts " old and has been a resident of Tel Aviv since its in Je"usalem ,md Tel Aviv. (See ent page A.) fo""ding. S:LPS ON FESTIVAL DAY GUTMANN

ANCIENT COURTYARD IN SAFED, 1951 GROSS