Michael Knigin

MIchael Knigin Abstract Pop Art Surrealism Acrylic Painting

MIchail Grobman Gouache and watercolor on paper Hand signed Lower Left and Dated 1964. Described inn Cyrillic Russian verso. Dimensions: L:13.25" W: 11.75". Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן‎‎, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli architect Yasha Jacob Grobman. Biography 1939 – Born in Moscow. 1960s – Active member of The Second Russian Avant-Garde movement in the Soviet Union. 1967 – Member of Moscow Artists Union. 1971 – Emigrates to Israel and settles in Jerusalem. 1975 – Founded the Leviathan group and art periodical (in Russian). Since 1983, he lives and works mainly in Tel Aviv. Awards In 2001, Grobman was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting. Solo exhibitions 2007 – Last Skies, Loushy & Peter Art & Projects, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Marc Scheps) 2006 – Creation From Chaos to Cosmos, Bar-David Museum of Fine Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Baram (cat. text: Sorin Heller) 2002 – The Last Sky, installation, Tsveta Zuzoritch pavilion, Belgrad (cat. text: Irina Subotitch) 1999 – Mikhail Grobman: Works 1960–1998, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat. texts: Evgeniya Petrova, Marc Scheps, Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Michail German) Michail Grobman was born in Moscow. He grew up writing poetry, essays and literary prose. In the 1960s, he was active in the Second Russian Avant-garde movement in the Soviet Union. In 1971, he immigrated to Israel. In 1975, he established the Leviathan school together with Avraham Ofek and Shmuel Ackerman, seeking to combine symbolism, metaphysics and Judaism in an all-inclusive “national style.” Grobman’s lithograph work employs images and symbols from Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. His paintings incorporate texts in Russian and Hebrew. In addition to his artistic endeavors, he writes about art and aesthetics. The group combined conceptual art and "land art" with Jewish symbolism. Of the three of them Avraham Ofek had the deepest interest in sculpture and its relationship to religious symbolism and images. In one series of his works Ofek used mirrors to project Hebrew letters, words with religious or cabbalistic significance, and other images onto soil or man-made structures. In his work "Letters of Light" (1979), for example, the letters were projected onto people and fabrics and the soil of the Judean Desert. In another work Ofek screened the words "America", "Africa", and "Green card" on the walls of the Tel Hai courtyard during a symposium on sculpture Part of the generation of emigre Russian artists, many Jewish, that included Yuri Kuper, Komar and Melamid, Eduard Steinberg, Erik Bulatov, Viktor Pivovarov, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Ilya Kabakov and Grisha Bruskin. Date of Birth: 1939, Moscow 1960s Active member of The Second Russian Avant Garde 1967 Member of the Moscow Painters Association 1971 Immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem 1975 Founded the Leviathan group and art periodical (in Russian) Since 1983 Lives and works in Tel Aviv . Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2002 Pavilion Zveta Zuzovich, "The Last Sky", Belgrad (cat: Irena Subotitch) 1999 The State Russian Museum, ST. Petersburg 1998 "Picture = Symbol + Concept", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya 1995 "Password and Image", University Gallery, Haifa University 1990 Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv 1989 "The Beautiful Sixties in Moscow", The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (with llya Kabakov; cat. text: Mordechai Omer] Spertus Museum, Chicago Beit Rami and Uri Nechushtan, Ashdot Yaacov (leaflet) 1972 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem 1973 - Negev Museum, Beer Sheva 1971 Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat. text: Haim Gamzu) 1966 Mos-lng-Projekt, Moscow 1965 Artist's House, Moscow Energy Institute, Moscow History Institute, Moscow Usti-nad-Orlicy Theatre,Czechoslovakia (leaflet text: Dushan Konetchni) 1959 Mukhina Art Institute, Leningrad . Selected Group Exhibitions: 2003 "Yes do yourself...", Regeneration of Judaism in Israeli art, Zman Omanut Tel Aviv (cat: Gideon Ofrat) 1999 "Russian post-war avantgarde", The Trajsman Collection in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Tretjakov National Gallery, Moscow (cat. text: Yevgenij Barabanov, John Bolt...

Modernist Composition This appears to be an oil or gouache on paper or board. Bears estate stamp verso. Dimensions: Framed 25 x 21.5. Sight 13.5 x 10.5. Albert Kotin (1907 – 1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including in Paris, France. The New York School Abstract Expressionism, and action painting represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and others became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era. Albert Kotin was born August 7, 1907, in Minsk, Russian Empire and emigrated to the US in 1908. He became a US citizen in 1923. Kotin studied: (1924–1929) at the National Academy of Design, New York City; with Charles Hawthorne, Provincetown, Massachusetts; (1929–32) at the Académie Julian, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and at the Atelier de Fresque and the Académie Colarossi, Paris, France; (1947–1951) at The Art Students League of New York, New York City; under the GI Bill he went to study with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown and in New York City. He participated in the Federal Art Project: Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) (1933–34) and Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project (WPA FAP) (1935–40). Kotin won competitions that were funded through commissions under the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) in Ada, Ohio, and in Arlington, New Jersey. He completed two WPA murals, The City and The Marsh for the Kearney, New Jersey, post office in 1938. Kotin served in the U.S. Army military service during World War II (1941–1945). After the war Kotin found a studio on 10th Street. He soon joined the "Downtown Group" which represented a group of artists who found studios in lower Manhattan in the area bounded by 8th and 12th street between First and Sixth Avenues during the late 1940s and early 1950s. These artists were called the "Downtown Group" as opposed to the "Uptown Group" established during the war at The Art of This Century Gallery. In 1949 Kotin joined the "Artists' Club" located at 39 East 8th Street. Albert Kotin was chosen by his fellow artists to show in The seminal 1951 9th Street Art Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, the official title artist Franz Kline hand-lettered onto the poster he designed for the Ninth Street Show. The show was located at 60 East 9th Street on the first floor and the basement of a building which was about to be demolished. "The artists celebrated not only the appearance of the dealers, collectors and museum people on the 9th Street, and the consequent exposure of their work but they celebrated the creation and the strength of a living community of significant dimensions." Now considered historic, the artist-led exhibition marked the formal debut of Abstract Expressionism, and the first American art...

My 80's Hart "Token 5" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, purple, green, blue

Made in 2023 by Amanda Andersen, this geometric abstract painting on paper is one in a series of nine minimal artworks with a visual simplicity in...