Sharon Poliakine Haifa Born Artist Bezalel Academy Of Art Limited Edition Print

Description: Description: Printed in 1994, via the screen printing method, this is an excellent edition print on cardboard with a limited amount of 300 pieces created by the artist Sharon Poliakine of Haifa, Israel. She graduated The Bezalel Academy Of Art and Design, Jerusalem. She was granted the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant in 1990 and she won the Struck Prize for Graphic Arts, Samuel Prize and many other honors. In 1993 she won first prize at the International Print Exhibition in Machida Tokyo. As of 1994 she lived in Jerusalem and is a master-printer at the Jerusalem print Workshop and a teacher of printmaking at the Bezalel Academy. This excellent and vibrant print is imposed on a cardboard substrate measuring 11 x 8 inches and 1/16th of an inch in thickness. It contains a description of her life and the awards she won on the reverse side as shown. It is in excellent, crisp, condition. HISTORY OF PRINTING IN ISRAEL & PALESTINE AND THE INCEPTION OF SCREEN-PRINTING:The first printing press in the Land of Israel, and all of Western Asia, was established in Safed in 1577 by the partners Eliezer and Abraham ben Isaac Ashkenazi. Israeli printmaking however, refers to printmaking by Jewish artists in the Land of Israel and the State of Israel beginning in the second half of the 19th century. The genre includes a variety of techniques, including woodcutting, etching and lithography, and screen-printing. The modern printing industry in Israel goes back to the second half of the 19th century, when a number of printing houses were established in Jerusalem. These printing houses dealt with the printing of texts in which various artistic images were incorporated. The first Hebrew printing house was established by Yisrael Bak (abbreviation of Baal Koreh) in Safed in 1841 and transferred to Jerusalem in 1841. Bak worked with presses and tools for casting letters he brought with him from Europe.The first use of the technique of lithograph printing was at the Salomon Printing House ( דפוס סלומון), founded by Yoel Moshe Salomon and Michal HaCohen, who learned the technique in Königsberg. While the people of the 'Old Yishuv' perceived art as a religious art that served the liturgy, at the beginning of the 20th century, art became more prevalent in modern Hebrew culture. Expressions of Judaism also began to gain national significance, following the expansion of the Zionist movement in Europe. The artists who came from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, already experienced artists with a standing in the print industry, contributed most to the development of this medium in the Eretz Israel. Another central milestone in the development of this concept is the establishment of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem in 1906. The most prominent Jewish artist in the European printing industry was Hermann Struck, who was associated with many Expressionist artists, was even a member of the Sezessionstil in Berlin, and exhibited consistently until 1913. Jacob Steinhardt and Joseph Budko, who studied print with Struck, also dealt often with themes from the Shtetl, not only as an ethnographic depiction, as Struck did, but also as a spiritual expression. Part of the change stemmed from the influence of expressionism on these artists. For Steinhardt, for example, this effect was expressed in a theatrical atmosphere rich in pathos and grotesque expressions. With the establishment of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Crafts, Ephraim Moses Lilien, one of the leading illustrators in Europe, arrived in Jerusalem. His artistic style derived from the European "Jugendstil" and his work expressed the main Zionist national outlook at the time. Alongside Bezalel, in 1923 Ze'ev Raban and Meir Gur Arie established the Industrial Art Studio ( בית עבודה לעבודות אינדוסטריאליות) and Graphica Press which printed posters of a limited size and various prints in the Jugendstil style. Another artist who worked in the field independently was Jacob Eisenberg, who printed etchings in a workshop in his home in Jerusalem. During the 1920s, the influence of modernist art was evident among some Bezalel students who continued their studies in Europe or were exposed to contemporary art. These were works that established an artistic opposition to the school that expressed the spirit of the period of the Tower of DaviD. Artists such as Nachum Gutman, Israel Paldi and others created expressive etchings and, particularly, woodcuts. During the 1970s and 1980s, the printing industry underwent a period of unprecedented development in Israel. A variety of print workshops made it possible for artists to create works using various techniques in this medium. A number of artists began to work in prints and in preparing printing plates for other artists in their studio. Moshe Givati established a printing workshop in Haifa that dealt mainly with the screen printing technique.In contrast to the lithography and etching techniques, the screen printing technique (or "silkscreen printing" as it was called at the time) was perceived as a secondary technique, mainly because it lacked any artistic tradition. Art in Israel began using industrial techniques in the late 1950s, but until the 1970s it was not widely used in art. As early as 1949, Ellie Gross lectured on serigraphy (screen printing) in the exhibition "What is Graphics?" In the Jerusalem Artists House. However 1967 was the first time it was used to any great extent by Malachi Beit-Arie. His book was accompanied by screen prints created by Myriam Bat-Yosef and printed in a commercial printing press. The most significant development in the use of this art technique can be attributed to Zvi Tolkovsky, who returned from art studies in the United States and learned the technique there. At the end of the sixties, Tolkovsky returned to Israel and, in 1969-1969, opened a workshop for printing and screen printing at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.Tolkovsky also taught at the Artists House in Tel Aviv, where screen printing was used as part of a variety of techniques such as calligraphy. An expression of the ambivalent status of the screen print can be found in the work of Moshe Gershuni, who was commissioned to create a series of print works at the Jerusalem Print Workshop in 1984. His works in this technique enjoyed both artistic and commercial success. In the early 1990s, "new media art" began to develop, using visual images created by "technical reproduction" without the need to use a manual process of creating print plates and manual printing. The use of computer graphics and digital media, which developed during this period, completely replaced manual design. The use of these methods also led to the perception of the art print industry as archaic. This unfortunately led to the closure and reduction of many print workshops during the 2000s. Among other things, the workshops of the Faculty of Arts - Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College were closed, and Bezalel's work was greatly reduced. The activities of professional workshops were also reduced, and they stopped producing works in large editions and went on to print works in editions of only 12-18 copies, which are quite rare. The shrinking of the field led most of the major artists who worked in the print industry, such as Ofer Lellouche, Larry Abramson, Sharon Poliakine, Asaf Ben Zvi, Hila Lulu Lin and others, to perceive the medium as secondary in their work. However, artists such as Orit Hofshi, Asaph Ben-Menahem and others have made it the primary medium in their work. Due to the high cost of producing these works with this technique, most of the works were printed only for renowned artists. Although Israeli museums continued to purchase prints, exhibitions in major galleries in Tel Aviv-Yafo or museum exhibitions of Israeli prints were unusual, and even the inclusion of prints in group thematic exhibitions was very small. In 1994, the Israel Museum mounted the exhibition, 'The Printer's Imprint': Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, marking the 20th anniversary of the Jerusalem Print Workshop. The print above was made for that occasion and as a representation of the exhibition. There were a very small number of select artists who participated in that exhibition and only seven were chosen out of them to be represented in the form of these screen-printed pieces of art on cardboard substrate. The artist Sharon Poliakine was one of the seven artists chosen from those who participated at that special exhibition. Which attests to her skill and proficiency in this medium. Only one of her works was chosen, and only 300 examples of it were made, the above being one of those 300. The Jerusalem Print workshop, a center for the graphic Arts in Israel, was founded in 1974 as a non-profit organization. Its purpose is to promote the highest artistic and technical standards and ethical practices in both the technical and commercial aspects of the profession. They were the ones who commissioned the original exhibition. Smart-phone users, click top right menu of phone, select 'request desktop site'. 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