Batia magal biography of michael
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Batia Magal Hand Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Serigraph on Canvas: " Aristocrats "
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Title: Aristocrats
Size: 25" x 20"
Edition Size: Artist Hand Signed and Numbered Limited Edition
Medium: Serigraph on Canvas
About the Artist: Batia Magal's work has developed along various paths, all of which converge and fuse into a very personal and feminine statement. The basic calligraphic drawing of the female figure or a flower-filled vase is the centerpiece that forms the structural basis of her work. To these the brilliant washes of lively colors act as a counterpoint, with the deeper and warmer hues evoking the luminosity of medieval stained-glass windows.
More recently, Magal has introduced fabric textures and prints of a seemingly unconnected nature into her work, forming collages where the elements of drawing, print and fabric-texture maintain a balance that emphasizes the works' structural composition.
Born in Israel in 1953, Batia Magal displayed since childhood a considerable talent for drawing and an all-
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Eisenman Michael
MICHAEL EISEMANN
Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, Michael Eisemann studied at the Academy of Art in Weisbedan, Germany. Upon his return to Israel, Eisemann began teaching at the Art Institute in Bat Yam, and later at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
Michael Eisemann continues to explore and chart the odyssey of the artistic psyche in works combining freely executed, miniature versions of masterpieces by artists of the past and present. Through this process of selection, fragmentation and refinement, as well as their relationship with one another, these works assume a fresh identity. Renaissance portraits, Impressionistic marinescapes, academic nudes and color filled works, variously arranged on parchment colored paper, shed their weighty art historical baggage and are transformed before the viewers eyes.
Together, they engage in a dialogue which underscores their collective abstract rhythms of light, color (or its absence), texture and above all flattened linear pattern.
Eisemann weaves this animate, endlessly fascinating surface, with its simultaneity of ebb flow, dissolution and regeneration, into a magic carpet, airborne through the artist’s powers of craft and inspiration. One of Israel’s most distinguished artist’s, Eisemann has exhibi
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Batya Magal
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