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Elie Shamir | |
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אלי שמיר | |
| Born | Elie Shamir 1953 (age 70–71) |
| Education | BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem |
| Known for | Painting |
| Website | elieshamir |
Elie Shamir (born 1953) is an Israeli visual artist and art teacher. His works include classic representational portraits and Israeli landscapes,[1] and he is known as the Jezreel Valley painter.[2]
Background[edit]
Shamir was born in Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley. He studied fine arts at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and taught there after graduation. His artworks earned awards from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2005 and from the Minister of Education, Culture, and Sport of Israel in 2006.[3]
Shamir is known as the Jezreel Valley painter, especially after a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2005 titled "Emek: On the way to Kfar-Yehoshua. "His paintings integrate both the history of art and the history of the Jezreeli-Israeli, and "any reading of his work obliges one to consider both of them."[2]
Notable artworks[edit]
Shamir exhibited his artworks in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Haifa Museum of Art, in galleries across Israel and Boston, Massachusetts.[3] A partial list of Shamir's paintings includes:
- Valley Landscape, 1990[4]
- Family Portrait (Achilles Chooses the String of Pearls), 1995[2]: 68
- Parents, 1997[4]
- Jezreel Valley from Um El Fahm, 2006[5]
- Valley Landscape with Jenin on the Horizon, 2007[5]
- To the Valley, 2008-2009[2]: 50
- Father and I - Life Size, 2011 [2]: 46-47
- Tel-Kasis, 2012[4]
- Farewell, 2012[4]
- An Old Oak in Spring Time, 2012[2]: 58
- Oak Thicket[4]
- Father and I Retrospectively, 2018[4]
- Uri Ben-Dror at the Nursery, 2019[4]
- Self-Portrait at Mount Nebo, 2019[4]
Large oil landscape paintings like "Jezreel Valley from Um El Fahm" and "Valley Landscape with Jenin on the Horizon" have a link to the tradition of American landscape paintings, specifically to the Hudson River School art movement from the mid-19th century. They show subdued landscapes that "[...] convey that dusty feeling that exists in Israeli landscape."[5]
Public artworks[edit]
Besides paintings, Shamir initiated and planned a mosaic in Kfar Yehushua in memory of the architect Richard Kauffmann and as a way to reunite and work together. Citizens of the moshav collaboratively made the mosaic in 2004. The mosaic shows a map of the moshav, mentions other places in Israel that Kauffmann planned, and includes a portrait of the architect and an image of Euclid.[6]
In 2021, Eli Shamir painted on a Flying Cargo truck as part of a commissioned public space art project titled "ART ON THE ROAD".[7]
See also[edit]
A Lullaby for the Valley, a documentary film on Shamir's work, was broadcast in 2020 during the Docaviv International Film Festival in Israel. The film, directed by Ben Shani, documents Shamir and his work over ten years.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Sontag, Deborah (1999-10-24). "Free to Be Personal, Not Political". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-12-22.
- ^ a b c d e f Bartos, Ron (2012). "Elie Shamir: Chapters of the Father". Elie Shamir / Kfar-Yehoshua (PDF). Tel Aviv: Zemack. pp. 77–78. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-12-31.
As a result of this exhibition Shamir was publicly acknowledged as the Jezre'el-Valley-Painter, the spokesman of the valley in the domains of Israeli art [...] the Jezre'eli-Israeli history and the history of art are not separate entities but are rather integrated within each other and seemingly become of one piece. Consequently, any reading of his work obliges one to consider both of them.
- ^ a b "Biography". Elie Shamir. Archived from the original on 2024-01-09.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Israel Musecum Information Center for Israeli Art". The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 2024-01-01. Archived from the original on 2024-01-12.
- ^ a b c Shefi, Smadar (2024-01-01). "'עמק' של אלי שמיר: כשציור הופך למקום" ['Valley' by Elie Shamir: When a painting becomes a place]. הארץ (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2024-01-01.
- ^ הבר, נטע; הרצוולף, אילת (April 2023). "ונוס אוספת בצל בכפר יהושע" [Venus harvests onion in Kfar Yehoshua] (PDF). אתרים המגזין (in Hebrew) (12). Israel: Yehuda Dekel Library, The Council for the Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites: 35. ISSN 2519-6057. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-01-09.
- ^ Ori Sela (2021-09-09). "משאיות כמו שעוד לא ראיתם: אמנות יפהפייה במרחב הציבורי" [Trucks you've never seen before: Beautiful public space art]. ישראל היום (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2023-12-28.
- ^ "A Lullaby for the Valley". NFCT. 2020. Archived from the original on 2024-01-07.