Menashe Kadishman
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Menashe Kadishman is an Israel
i sculptor and painter.
in Tel Aviv
, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem.
In 1959, he moved to London, where he attended the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
and the Slade School of Art. During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro
and Reg Butler
. He remained here until 1972; he had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery
.
His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style, and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968). The glass allowed the environment to be part of the work.
on Kibbutz
Ma'ayan Baruch. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career. The first major appearance of sheep in his work was in the 1978 Venice Biennale
, where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portrait
s of sheep (see picture on the right), by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark".
In 2005, he was voted the 176th-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.
Oklahoma:
Pennsylvania:
Texas:
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i sculptor and painter.
Biography
From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and DesignAvni Institute of Art and Design
The Avni Institute of Art and Design is an Israeli art school located in Tel Aviv. The institute is known for teaching and employing many well known Israeli artists and designers....
in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem.
In 1959, he moved to London, where he attended the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...
and the Slade School of Art. During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.-Background and early life:...
and Reg Butler
Reg Butler
Reginald Cotterell Butler was an English sculptor. He studied and lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1937 to 1939. He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, being exempted from military service conditional upon setting up a small...
. He remained here until 1972; he had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery
Grosvenor Gallery
The Grosvenor Gallery was an art gallery in London founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife Blanche. Its first directors were J. Comyns Carr and Charles Hallé...
.
His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style, and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968). The glass allowed the environment to be part of the work.
Sheep in Menashe Kadishman's art
In his youth, between 1950 and 1953, Kadishman worked as a shepherdShepherd
A shepherd is a person who tends, feeds or guards flocks of sheep.- Origins :Shepherding is one of the oldest occupations, beginning some 6,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, meat and especially their wool...
on Kibbutz
Kibbutz
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
Ma'ayan Baruch. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career. The first major appearance of sheep in his work was in the 1978 Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
, where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
s of sheep (see picture on the right), by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark".
Education
- 1947-50 Sculpture, with Moshe Sternschuss, Avni Institute of Art and DesignAvni Institute of Art and DesignThe Avni Institute of Art and Design is an Israeli art school located in Tel Aviv. The institute is known for teaching and employing many well known Israeli artists and designers....
- 1954 Sculpture, with Rudi Lehman
- 1959-60 Art, St. Martin's School of Art, London
- 1961 Art, Slade School, London
Awards
- 1960 the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship.
- 1961, the Sainsbury Scholarship, London.
- 1967 First Prize for Sculpture, Paris Biennale
- 1978, first prize for sculpture, 5th Paris Biennale.
- 1980 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
- 1981 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
Museum Prize of the Jury - 1981 Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrikstad.
- 1984 Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
Museum - 1990 the Dizengoff PrizeDizengoff PrizeThe Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture is awarded annually by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality since 1937.The following is a table of Dizengoff Prize laureates in their respective art form:...
for Sculpture. - 1995 the Israel PrizeIsrael PrizeThe Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
, for sculpture. - 2002 the Honorary Fellowship Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
In 2005, he was voted the 176th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet
Ynet
Ynet is the most popular Israeli news and general content website. It is owned by the same conglomerate that operates Yediot Ahronot, the country's secondleading daily newspaper...
to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
United States
New York:- 'Suspended', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville
- 'Eight Positive Trees', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville
Oklahoma:
- 'The Sacrifice of Isaac', 1985, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman
- 'Negative Tree', 2001, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
Pennsylvania:
- 'Three Discs', 1967, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove
Texas:
- 'Segments', 1968, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
- 'The Forest', 1970, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
- 'Om', 1969, University of Houston, Houston
Germany
- 'Falling Leaves', Jewish Museum, Berlin
- 'Pieta', Dominikanerkloster, Braunschweig
- 'Negative Trees', 1974, Wedau Sports Park, Duisburg
Israel
- 1960 Tension, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1964 Uprise,a heavy steel sculpture near the Theatre and Performing Arts Center stage. Tel Aviv
- 1966 In Suspense, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1967 In Suspense, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
- 1967-74 The Tree Circles, Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
- 1975 In Suspense, University of Tel Aviv, TelAviv
- 1975 In Suspense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
- 1977 Circles, The Hebrew University, Har Hatsofim, Jerusalem
- 1979 Continuum, Weizmann Institute of ScienceWeizmann Institute of ScienceThe Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann, is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and post-graduate studies in the sciences....
, RehovotRehovotRehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 112,700. Rehovot's official website estimates the population at 114,000.Rehovot was built on the site of Doron,... - 1982-1985 Akedat Issac, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv
- 1984 - Hill of the Sheep, The Tefen Open Museum of Israeli Art, Galilee
- 1985 Akedat Issac, University of Tel, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
- 1985, Trees Israel Museum Billy Rose Sculpture Art Garden, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1989 Birth, The Open Museum of Israeli Art, Galilee
- 1990 Trees, Rehavia, Jerusalem
- 1990 Birth, near the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya
- 1994 Motherland , Sculpture Garden in memory of Lola Bar Avner, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
- 1995 The Family Plaza, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Veshem, Jerusalem
- 1998 Scream, Sculpture Garden in memory of Lola Bar Avner, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
- 2004 Portrait of Shimon Finkel on the facade of Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
City Hall - 2006 Memorial monument for the Etzel, Haganah and Lehi underground organizations, Ramat Gan
Other works
- 'Horse'
- 'Motherland'
- 'Child and Horse'
- 'Kissing Birds'
- 'Homage to Young Couples'
- 'Homage to Barnett Newman'
- 'The Flock'
- 'Cracked Earth'
External links
- Menashe Kadishman - The official Menashe Kadishman website
- Menashe Kadishman from the collections of the Israel MuseumIsrael MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
- Menashe Kadishman from the Israeli artist list of the Information Center for Israeli ArtInformation Center for Israeli ArtThe Information Center for Israeli Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the Israeli Art in Israel. More than 12,000 artists files are housed in the Center in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem....
at the Israel MuseumIsrael MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.... - Menashe, Kadishman Europeana – Search results
- Menashe Kadishman at the Engel Gallery
- Kadishman biography and picture
- Sheep in Menashe Kadishman's art
- Article and interview with Menashe Kadishman
- Maximum card of sheep`s head by Menashe Kadishman
See also
- List of Israel Prize recipients