Продам: I.N.Zisman, "Quay"

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Joseph Natanovich Zisman (1914-2004), Sea, 1980, oil on canvas /canvas, 49 x 69 cm


Painter. Member of the Union of Artists. Born in Kiev. He studied at the Art College. In 1934-37 he studied at the Moscow Institute for Advanced artists. In 1933-34 he worked in the Far East, a teacher of painting and drawing at school and college. From 1937 to 1953 (with breaks), he served in the Soviet Army. Participated in the Great Patriotic War. Member of the Union of Artists since 1947. Participant in numerous exhibitions since 1945, in Leningrad in 1962, 1965, 1971 and 1983 were solo exhibition of the artist. Author of landscapes, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes. Brushwork Zisman characterize certain looseness, temperament, sophisticated color harmony and lyrical mood. Works are in the timing and Collections of Modern Art "Manezh", St. Petersburg.


Joseph Natanovich Zisman. How to utter a combination of words, once there is a memory, at first glance, a very simple-minded, humorous, typical Jewish town where his child was brought to Kiev in an orphanage for children whose parents were killed during the massacres. In Kiev, then had a great rise in the culture, to speed quickly shot. But with little Joseph Zismane the orphanage regularly have the best poets, writers, painters and sculptors of the time. So Joseph Natanovich childhood was a powerful charge of the artistic conception of the world. And in the future, living in Birobidzhan, Moscow and Leningrad, he was in a circle of talented artists, next to the magnificent collections of paintings Museum. Pushkin and the Hermitage. He constantly thought about painting and was obsessed with it. Special lift he suffered in the last 15 - 20 years of his life. Then he fell ill and was unable to go to the shop to a religious rite in a unique color space, which itself created every day ... The exhibition presents a small number of long oil paintings that are close to the stopped job exactly on the paper will be able to effectively compare two opposing methods of art is very great master. This, in essence, two ways of knowing. The method of instantaneous insight by looking at the nature and implementation of this impression on paper. And the method of long-term, life does not end with variations on the surface of the canvas, where the work is moving in two directions - it is more generalized, exposing the main compositional division, and yet it is impossible thinning in color. Color almost refuses tonal differences. The world, our real world, gradually dematerialized, transformed into the color glow, as if to disappear ...
Joseph ... Natanovich Zisman stopped working a few years before the physical departure from life as if it is infinitely utonchivshayasya painting was too rough for the expression of the true state of affairs and his soul, seeing the futility of all tangible effort stopped ... He lived a very long creative life. There were many stages. And, despite the fact that its full maturation was between the 70 th and 80 th years, the work done in previous years, and exposed in a small amount, show us the logic of the great master of his art. Sam Joseph Natanovich about it often said, "An artist should live a long time", and then a long and very well explain why ... (Anatoly Zaslavsky)

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