Kitchen Cupboard
1977
152.0 x 70.0 cm
Canada Council Art Bank
herzl jacob kashetsky (1950 –)
Herzl Kashetsky is a Canadian realist painter honoring Holocaust victims through poignant figurative art. His commemorative works explore memory & resilience.
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Herzl Kashetsky (b. 1950)Herzl Kashetsky is a New Brunswick painter initially associated with the magic realist school, a regional art movement centred in Atlantic Canada. These artists combined highly realist paintings of objects with an almost surrealist intensity of light, which is evident in Kashetsky’s meticulously executed 1992 series Beach Stones. In 1996, Kashetsky completed “A Prayer for the Dead,” a series of paintings depicting the Holocaust, for which he received the Canadian Red Cross Humanitarian Award. These paintings were noted for their haunting tone and detailed recreation of the faces of the dying, a mass grave and crematorium door, said to be the artists’ way of “paying respect to the dead, to the victims of the Holocaust” as well as those lost from his own life. Curator Tom Smart of Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery said of these works,
O tomto díle
- Název: Kitchen Cupboard
- Autor: herzl jacob kashetsky
- Rok: 1977
- Původní rozměry: 152.0 x 70.0 cm
- Formát: Tall
- Stav autorského práva: Chráněno autorským právem
- Místo umístění: Canada Council Art Bank
- Barevná paleta: Pastels
- Vnímaná jasnost: brilliant