Curators Ron Bartos and Tali Tamir joined forces to curate an exhibition featuring two of the most prominent artists of the Kibbutz Ha\u2019artzi:Shraga Weil (1918\u20132009) illustrator of the Ten Commandments of Hashomer Hatzair and Hakibbutz Ha\u2019artzi Passover Haggadah and Shmuel Katz (1926\u20132010) illustrator of Yigal Mossinson\u2019s Hasamba children\u2019s book series and Leah Goldberg\u2019s children\u2019s book, Dira Lehaskir [Flat for Rent].<\/p>\n
The exhibition focuses on one unique year in their long careers\u20141953\u2014the year in which they traveled to Paris to study printmaking and mural techniques at the \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts\u2014so they could implement them upon return in the Kibbutz Movement\u2019s visual sphere.<\/p>\n
The exhibition will span works on paper from that year, reflecting a twofold gaze at the French capital: on the one hand, both artists depicted the beautiful, stylized Paris and the atmosphere of the caf\u00e9s and parks; on the other hand, as loyal socialists, they portrayed the beggars and drunken tramps under the bridges.<\/p>\n
In addition to these themes, both kibbutz members in Paris depicted the landscapes of the kibbutz and the Arab village, showing their loyalty to the country and movement that sent them on this adventure.<\/p>\n
Another aspect of the exhibition refers to the weekly satirical column in Al Hamishmar, in which the two, primarily Katz, documented their European journey with typical humor.<\/p>\n
Shmulik and Shraga used their base in Paris to travel throughout Europe, their place of origin, and perpetuated their journey in their sketchbooks and personal diaries, which are showcased in the exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3649,"template":"","categories":[205],"artists":[3374,3375],"exhibition":[3376,3377],"curator":[548,3378],"years":[156],"class_list":["post-3261","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theme-exhibition","artists-shraga-weil","artists-shmuel-katz","exhibition-shmulik-and-shraga-in-paris-the-journey-of-shmuel-katz-and-shraga-weil","exhibition-1953-en","curator-bartos-ron","curator-tamir-tali","years-2019-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}