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I i • '.::•h=tf:!-,c.:.'_:SeJ!t2__em_..:.:..,:_ber_J_6.:.... _195_S _________________________T_H_. E __ I_S_R_A_E_L_I_T_E __ P_R_:_E_S_S ______________________ --,- _____:_:,Ne~ °!_!ar_._Edition _ Page 3 . Israeli Artists, Musicians Develop Vigorous and Distinct Style A COLORFUL AND COMPREHENSIVE review of deve!. opments and trends in Israeli art and music was publish­ I Israeli Art· Gains Many New Ftjends ir ~~... THEY'RE FORGING ed recently in a special "Culture in Israel" issue of the 1 well-known periodical Israel Speaks, published in New 1 York. We are sure our readers will join with The Is­ For Jewish State. in Travels Abroad :-, raelite Press in expressing our deep appreciation to Israel Speaks for permission to reprint a number of the i11ter­ By ALFRED WERNER I tial. and, excellent draftsm~ · that himself or gloomy colors m . the 11 · AN 'ISRAELI' ART New York. ' he is, renders the contours with an land of hope, the land of Tomor-11 esting and informative articles in that issue, and also for ; energetic hand. · . row?" Why not--0nly fools are I . By MORDECAI ARDON ing re.ality into iu compoMnt parts the co-operation in providing w with the pictures of r .. ~r. w• ..,.r 11 a_ w.llknown ! The ubra Moshe Castel, a Sefardi always happy, and Mokady's fig.· L · and reassemblillg it illto new cent Israeli art, and of leading musicians, which accom­ critic and art historian. , who, only in his mid-forties, is the , ures, landscapes, still lifes belong 11 MordecaJ Ardon (Bronstein), 1 aesthetic entities-a new reality. panied the articles. May we direct our readers' atten­ , The reception gi\'en to Israeli l youngest of the Seven, artistically j to the realm or the soul which, like ! an outstanding Israeli artllt (1ft But ill Israel, the face of the tion to the advertisement on Page 6, which affords the ' artists in the United States, the . went the opposite way: from a sort I the ~• has ~ny a dark and , "Bethlehem" behr•'I, 11 .adviHr til reader an exceptional opportunity to "sample" Israel j impression they llavi: made on the i of roi_nantic "realism" to pure ab- Imystenous seething beneath the !: ': en art to th• lsra•II Ministry of land was • l appearing on the U• ; American public, and the experi-' straction. · surface. Id I nd c ltu tul.!I' canvase& in a faithful impra- Speaks through a special introductory offer. We know I ucet on a u r•. ;slonlstic Image. Yet e\'en then a · you will enioy this unique h1bloid-form newspaper.- i en·ce those of ~em privileged to l His early work-illteriors of old • WOODCUT MASTER i · Jerusalem. number of the elect we~e lending , Editor's Note. • . accompany thell' ptctures on the ISafad houses and synagogues, 1 · long journey have accumulated, painted in strong jeweled colors-- A very serious man, with a truly 1 The art of Israel is routed in the , an ear lO' the reverberations of the --------------------------..-: land of Israel and ill illhabitanll. : new movements abroad. durillg their stay in AJµerica, have is widely appreciated by collectors, philosophical mind, is Miron Sima, I::,•· ·'. This principle has been apparent I At the end of World War I, we from the very out.set. and has ' received word ol. the new exprea­ 1 pro\·en true throughout the three i sionism, of cubism and of futurism :!: a:~~~f~a:. ~a;~~ ;r::i~l:~ia~i~!~:a :;~ea~r:~:~;~w1~ ,.\.·.·:.._[.·.:_ .:..·i;:.: ... • On the credit side there is the latest, non-figurative canvases he showed in New York: Refugees , .. major periods in the development 1 -and were prepared for their o( urael art. : accession. enthusiastic response of the Ameri• promise much fot the future. and •:Mourning. a Dead Haganah Fifty years have passed ~hlce : AGAIN THE LA ND SC A PE ~hf!~~~- :r~=~:m~!r:3!~ ,d~~a1~!~n ~!ns~~~ ::b:~t Fi~t:~to~, where he spe~t many ('/:£.}). Prof, Boris Shatz pl~ted the fJrSl, changed. The lowlands rejoiced ill • . graphic ai:tists; some of the best! by the Museum of Modern Art--a , months of rnte~e study, Sima pro- 1 ~piing or our art with the, fou_nd• : a coat or many colors; the "days of museu1115 m t~e country have not! great honor for an artist. There Is : duced a portfoho of ten large ~d. L. ·::c.-:i~~~}i . 1ng of Bf:zalel, the ~ountry 5 first : creation" blossomed, rnany-hued, ill art school. The uphng . took root. , squares and rectangles, rectangles blouomed and ga<'e fnut of a de- , elongated a n d fore-shortened cidedly romantic. flavor-;-romanlic / squares large znd small-the n~ [#.urye;~~~:}:i l:,,i.:... [ .•.. :.:.·:.:'.·,l.•~·p;···•·•·:,',,· . in exlernau, senumental m essence l buildings, cubes, water-towers, cyl­ ~;than to 'cens•.ire;~]*~ many works of art a~, i2:. i. wereirt~~=~i€1;~:: dot absent. ~~f . · ,, ,· -lllte the heartA of the vanguard i lnders, capped with hemispheres. were acquired by private collec- f W~ttanthe aBrtisthlt hhas g1vend uJs ID, UNLIKE THE VERSATILE ft),';\if" of brae! on the threshold of our The world was caJrt In geometric tors Christians as well as Jews· or IDS ce, e e em an eru• W•~t· ' ' al t N. ht · · · Sima, there are several Israeli ar- f/;" century, molds, as it was in the world art the artists .who came here for a ~ ~m a f ig 'h 3:"se magi~ov~io.':15 lists who confine themselves, on ~.~.':\:,\; .,.. .. Professor Shatz gave expression of the lime. brief stay found the visits th Ameri- . eu O snaps O • symp mes ID the whole, to one medium. ! ,, . •· to their yearning for redemption Cubism takes the artist by storm. can academies, museums and gal- w~ch mysterious colors, applied in r;:;:;:;__.,, ,,, -;,;,,l ~tt in art forn:s compounded of the The 1:onquest need not be seen as lerles most stimula\ing. thick !~yen are comparable to the · There Is Shlmahon Holzman, lo liirll1""'•· ,. "'1,. .- ,.,,,,,,~rc>o!.'""'~ .,.,, , notes ID music, whose light, untortured a·quarelles -Courtesy American Pund vital elements in the treasure- capitulation, but rather .as an at­ ON THE DEBIT SIDE IS THE for Israel ln1t1tut1on1 hou.se of the nation, ei;peclally as tempt to find apt expression for a Another Expressionist and "ma­ Israel ls embodied-Israel in the NIMROD I. Danziger fact that only the work of middle­ gician" is 'Moshe Mokady, but his preaerved In the arts and crafts .of .land and a people in the daily aged artists wllh well-established bloom of its sprillg, in. its youth• the Oriental communities. It was process of renewal, For the day of paintings. are exclusively seU­ fulness bursting with energy, and and pray in Jerusale..'ll.'1 lllea reputations was shown· here; the portraits, symbolic representations in the dignity of its ancient water Shearim quarters. His blaca and a decorative art, concerned with ! autarchy In the artA Is past beyond wo1 k of the daring ycung men and the flora and fauna of a land newly return, and the fh'Bt index of ar­ of the artist's soul, regardless of and soil. whites are 1.'!.aded In countlesa women has not yet been presented the subject he chooses. Mokady Vllrieties. aeen and atartllog to the beholder. tisOc matllilty is readiness to ab­ on this side of the Atlantic. And there are two masters In sorb vital currents in th.e art uses chiefly browns, greys and black and white: Jacob Steinhardt Few artists in black and white BUT THE GLOW OF ROMANCE Very little Israeli sculpture has blacks which ordinarily suggest centers of the world. .reached the United States, and not and Ann• Tlcho. Steinhardt's chief can mate us realize RB . fully as and the pangs of creation in pri>se gloom, hopelessness, melancholy, medium is the woodcut, and his Steinhardt that white can be a actuality are not easily mated. The At first glance, the work of our enough· of the output of the mod• depression.. artists seems too much like that favorite "models" are the old schol- stark cruel color, or a tender and workaday world began to take hold, ern silversmiths, ceramicists and "Why should an Israeli artist,• ars in fur caps, broad-brimmed lyrical one, and that black can be as It must when a land arises from of foreign counterpart&, but closer weavers to fonn a basis for an scrutiny reveals that even then I heard a gallery villitor ask, "avail hats.and long gabardines who study either soft or dramatic, either deep the alumber of centuries and a opinion. or britUe. people is reborn. some of our masters had already Under the name ·of "Israeli art,;, begun to ferret out the. unique ele­ Anna Tlcho, however, Uie only A few artlats freed tbemaelves gallery owners have on various Israeli woman that so far baa ex-. meotll which characterize the land occasions lumped together, lo from the narrow straits of romantl• and its Inhabitants. The "M~diter• hiblted in the United States, is at cbm and set their easels opposite group shows, mediocre or even bad her best in drawing with a pointed ranean" landscape slowly but sul'e­ products by non-entitles depicting hidd!lde and treetop, meadow and ly becomes "Israeli." pencil, a pen or chalk, thicket, and the last vestiges of land and people In a cheap picture­ postcard manner. She emphasizes through precise romanticism evaporated under the "DAYS OF DESTINY" and meticulous definition, all in a 1kies of Canaan and its searing sun. Questionable, too, ls the continu­ With the War of Independence ing use of the term "Israeli".

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