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Artist: Calman Shemi
Modernist Israeli Soft Tapestry Wall Hanging Rug Calman Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
this is a bright vibrant abstract wall hanging tapestry by Calman Shemi. I believe the material is wool with a linen backing but i am not positive. it can also be used as a floor rug...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Wool, Mixed Media
Abstract #5 Large Tapestry
By Calman Shemi
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Abstract #5 acrylic on wool.
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the school of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, Calman Shemi was a stu...
Category
1980s Abstract Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Wool, Acrylic
Stendhal #2 Soft Tapestry wall hanging
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
this is a bright vibrant abstract wall hanging tapestry by Calman Shemi. I believe the material is wool with a linen backing but i am not positive. it can also be used as a floor rug.
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he studied under the Italian-Argentinean sculptor Libero Badii whom he credits with putting him on the right path. “He taught me principals, not only related to sculpture, but human and philosophic principals. Shemi also carefully studied the work of such masters as Picasso, Caravaggio, Frank Stella and Matisse. “From each one of these great artists I learned something from observing them,” he says.
In 1961, at the age of 20, Shemi immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Carmia of which he was a member for twenty years. There he worked in agriculture and also as a sculptor working with wood and clay. Several of his large-scale fiberglass and polyester projects are situated in public buildings. He was a student of German-Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann, a pioneer of the artistic movement known as “Canaanism.”
Canaanite art was an effort to create a direct relationship with the land, bypassing historic Jewish connotations—hence the land’s primordial name is used. Canaanite works, with an emphasis on the inter-action of simple shapes, bear a deliberate resemblance to the sculpture and ritual art of early civilizations of the Middle East prior to Judaism, always with an eye to the fusion of man and the land itself.
Though sculpture dominated his early years as an artist, in the mid ’70s Shemi developed the idea of the “soft painting” medium. Beginning with a color drawing done to scale, Shemi layers onto the drawing irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics. Using a threadless 9,000-needle sewing machine, the fabrics are meshed to one another and to the background, resulting in vibrant carpet...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Large Original Abstract Colorful Oil Painting Israeli Kibbutz Landscape Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
Life in Nature
Canvas measures 31.5 X 39.5
(I believe this is oil it might also be acrylic.)
Hand signed recto and signed and titled verso.
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he studied under the Italian-Argentinean sculptor Libero Badii whom he credits with putting him on the right path. “He taught me principals, not only related to sculpture, but human and philosophic principals. Shemi also carefully studied the work of such masters as Picasso, Caravaggio, Frank Stella and Matisse. “From each one of these great artists I learned something from observing them,” he says.
In 1961, at the age of 20, Shemi immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Carmia of which he was a member for twenty years. There he worked in agriculture and also as a sculptor working with wood and clay. Several of his large-scale fiberglass and polyester projects are situated in public buildings. He was a student of German-Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann, a pioneer of the artistic movement known as “Canaanism.”
Canaanite art was an effort to create a direct relationship with the land, bypassing historic Jewish connotations—hence the land’s primordial name is used. Canaanite works, with an emphasis on the inter-action of simple shapes, bear a deliberate resemblance to the sculpture and ritual art of early civilizations of the Middle East prior to Judaism, always with an eye to the fusion of man and the land itself.
Though sculpture dominated his early years as an artist, in the mid ’70s Shemi developed the idea of the “soft painting” medium. Beginning with a color drawing done to scale, Shemi layers onto the drawing irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics. Using a threadless 9,000-needle sewing machine, the fabrics are meshed to one another and to the background, resulting in vibrant carpet tapestry compositions infused with exuberant color and explosive movement. These are neither aubusson nor pile but more of a felt wall hanging...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Structure 11 Acrylic On Wool
By Calman Shemi
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Structure #11 acrylic on wool.
Hand signed and titled on verso.
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the school of Sculpture and Cerami...
Category
1990s Abstract Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Wool, Acrylic
Large Israeli Colorful Metal Wall Sculpture Painting Circus Scene Calman Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
Calman Shemi (1939-)
Laser cut metal wall sculpture 3D
Titled "Circus"
Signed on the front lower left edge, and signed, numbered, and titled verso.
Marked, Jerusalem
Limited edition, 2/99 (I don't know how many were actually made)
Approx. 34.5" x 35.5"
Depicts weightlifter, acrobats, figure on unicycle, clown with umbrella, and acrobat under the circus big top...
Category
1990s Contemporary Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Metal
Between Fog & Clarity, Colorful Abstract Lithograph by Calman Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Calman Shemi, Argentine (1939 - )
Title: Between Fog & Clarity
Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil
Edition: 300, Dedicated to Michel
Size: 25 in. x 35.5 in. (63.5 cm x 90.17...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Lithograph
Manuscript, Colorful Abstract Lithograph by Calman Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Calman Shemi, Argentine (1939 - )
Title: Manuscript
Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil
Edition: 300, Dedicated to Michel
Size: 25 in. x 35.5 in. (63.5 cm x 90.17 cm)
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Lithograph
Colorful Abstract Lithograph by Calman Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Calman Shemi, Argentine (1939 - )
Title: Untitled I
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 60/450
Size: 34.5 in. x 26 in. (87.63 cm x 66.04 cm)
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Calman Shemi Art
Materials
Lithograph
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Artist Biography: Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he studied with the Italian-Argentine sculptor Libero Badii and the German-Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehman.
In 1961, he settled in Israel and joined Kibbutz Carmia where he was a member for twenty years. There he worked in agriculture and also as a sculptor, working in wood and clay.
Shemi has acknowledged many influences in his art and his life; the dramatic colors of his childhood in Argentina, the sun-baked landscape of his home in Israel, the sensuous colorism of Matisse, the philosophies of his art teachers, and even the ritualistic symbols of the ancient past. His working method, which relies on the assistance of skilled artisans to execute much of the technical part of producing his works, affirms Shemi's strong commitment to the communal ethic rooted in his experience on the Kibbutz.
In 1977, Shemi's work became an international symbol of peace when Israel's President Katzir presented a Shemi painting to the late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
Sculpture dominated his early years as an artist. In 1977, while living in the Kibbutz he developed the idea of the "soft painting" medium. In his "soft paintings", he begins with a color drawing done to scale. He then layers irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics resulting in vibrant compositions infused with exuberant color and explosive movement.
In recent years, Shemi has worked intensively with wall sculptures made of painted laser-cut steel, his new field of expression.
Over the last fifteen years, he has held more than seventy one-man-shows in the USA, Japan, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Israel including an exhibition at Saper Galleries in 1991. Several of Shemi's large-scale fiberglass and polyester projects are situated in various public buildings throughout the world.
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