Joseph Meerovitch Ostrovsky (1935-1993) - a landmark name in the history of the artistic life of Odessa the second half of the twentieth century. His works are in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kiev Museum of Russian Art, Odessa Art Museum as well as many famous private collections . The pictures of this master were exhibited in New York, London , Zurich, Antwerp , Tokyo, as well as in museums and galleries in Odessa, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk.
Iosif Ostrovsky was born in 1935 in the Jewish settlement Sudilkovo (about Shepetovka ), where in Soviet times remain faithful to Jewish tradition . And began to paint early in 15 years enrolled in the painting department of the Odessa Art School. His main teacher was a wonderful artist Dean M. Frumin , who believed Ostrovsky one of the most striking and original of the pupils .
Landscapes of the 1970s with their clarity of air, calligraphic outlines of the trees bear a sense of worship of the winter beauty of Russian nature. These poetic and philosophical picture of the nature of associative tune with winter landscapes by Pieter Bruegel , where the earthly world is presented in its grandeur and purity. Then Ostrovsky first turned to the Jewish question . The world of childhood , the world of the town and all of those around here the future of the artist - all of these artisans , musicians, sages - embodied in the amazing " Jewish cycle ", made up of several hundred paintings. Do not write as M. Cogan in his article on this series : " ... the works are a kind of signs. Sign of a man with a book. Fiddler sign . Sign painter. Sign heritage. In his works, a high proportion of convention : the convention of language that is understood at a glance, with a semi - sight. "
I. Ostrovsky participated in the republic, national and international exhibitions. In March 1978, the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art opens first solo exhibition Ostrovsky. It was a great success . His workshop was also a center of culture in Odessa is where intellectuals gathered .
The last years of the life and work of Joseph Ostrowski took place in Israel, where his art has been quite in demand. The artist passed away in 1993 at the height of his creative powers. In the obituary published in a newspaper of Russian-speaking American " Jewish World " was written : "In the history of Jewish Art Yosef Ostrovsky - the only artist whose work in such a large amount of media devoted to Jewish spirituality ."
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