Meir Pichhadze was born in Soviet Georgia and immigrated to Israel in 1973. He is known for his figurative and abstract paintings, which he created with industrial paint. He had solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Artist’s Studio (1994) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2003). He was the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Prize (1982), the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for a Young Artist (1988), and first prize at the Ankara Biennale (1990). Pichhadze lived in Tel Aviv.
In the 1970s, Weisel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, made a series of abstract paintings inspired by her father’s tattoo from Auschwitz. The central rectangle in this painting resembles a…
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) in costume for the solo dance The Dying Swan, a role especially created for her, and which she performed an estimated four thousand times. Born in St. Petersburg and brought…
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