Yehezkiel Streichman [the Israel Museum) (Hebrew and English Edition)

The Israel Museum. 1987. First edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. light shelf wear, ex museum stamp on blank flyleaf. 60 p. Includes illustrations. . Yehezkel Streichman was an Israeli painter who was considered a pioneer of Israeli modernist painting. He won both the Dizengoff Prize and the Israel Prize, among others. Streichman studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design with Arie Aroch in 1924-27. He then completed his studies in Paris at the √ √ ¢cole des Beaux-Arts (1927) and in Florence at the Academy of Art (1928-31). He taught painting throughout his life; in elementary and high schools in 1936, at Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov in 1941, and at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv in 1944 and from 1954-79. Among those who studied with him were Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan and Israeli abstract artist Lea Nikel. He and Avigdor Stematsky formed the Studia Art School in 1944, because they thought Israeli art schools were too conservative. Streichman's painting style involved using many deep layers of paint He was an acclaimed painter in what was known as the modernist "New Horizons" (Ofakim Hadashim) group in 1950s Tel Aviv, which he founded in 1948 along with Joseph Zaritsky and Stematsky. It painted in a French "lyrical abstraction" style. He was President of the Israeli Artists and Painters Union. In 1964, he and Yechiel Shemi and other artists formed a group of artists called Tatzpit (Vantage Point). In 2005, Streichman was voted the 194th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis. .