tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196042772024-02-02T08:24:58.661+02:00Chanan Mazal - Jerusalem Art BlogJewish art, Fine Art and Illustrations by Israeli Artist Chanan Mazal
בלוג האומנות שלהאומן הירושלמי חנן מזלmazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-8830492014457455802014-10-05T11:35:00.003+03:002014-10-05T11:35:40.872+03:00Friends,<br />
My blog has moved over to the same address as my website: <a href="http://www.mazalart.com/">www.mazalart.com</a><br />
The blog is found at <a href="http://mazalart.com/blog-2/">http://mazalart.com/blog-2/</a><br />
I look forward to meeting you there!<br />
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<b>Ongepatchket | אָנגעפאטשקעט | נקוד וטלוא</b></h3>
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<b>Jerusalem Theatre Gallery, till June 11, 2013</b></h4>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">When Jacob negotiated with his nasty father-in-law Laban, he chose the decorative spotted and patched sheep and goats as salary. He left those with Minimalist aesthetics for his in-laws. Indeed, Jacob showed talent at encouraging the flock to reproduce with even more resplendent patches.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Following our forefather’s example, I explore the world of pattern and ornament, as a vehicle of artistic, emotional and ideological expression.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">I had my first encounter with patchwork when my Mom gave me some old wallpaper catalogs. My scissors and glue had always worked overtime, but the mess was more than she expected. In desperation, she cried, “Stop patchkying around!”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.6px;"><b>Patchkerei:</b> Yiddish for making a big fuss with lots of details. From Old German <i>patch</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Mom often dragged me to antique shops valuing my 8 year old opinion. Victorian treasures and monstrosities could still be purchased for pennies. If something was particularly dripping with poorly applied ornament, we would laugh,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">“It’s sooooo ongepatchket!”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.6px;"><b>Ongepatchket: </b>Yiddish, over decorated, fussy.</span></div>
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<span style="font: 19.0px Myriad Pro; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><b>So how do all of these stories “patch” together?</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">I am an artist creating HERE - in our noisy, colorful, intimate, dressed-in-schmattes Holy Land. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px;">I often work by layer upon layer of patterned patches; ripping and unraveling the image, then gently “sewing” it together. I like paintings with something missing, spontaneous, with a turbulent undercurrent, yet somehow full of joy. </span></div>
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mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-36711554230123025972012-02-20T16:38:00.001+02:002012-02-20T17:10:36.385+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaiTmq-WvWza1nd18msioXsr2hKdOGgujVMlRyWmTKOZ2gaxQWaZs-nZeBScIXC49bkupzLNLLBWx37cwJe8nau13Ctu-fFVknhaK1mTokbmKigIBZEDcjlWWcX9jCq5RrQucP2w/s1600/Cypress-Stars700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaiTmq-WvWza1nd18msioXsr2hKdOGgujVMlRyWmTKOZ2gaxQWaZs-nZeBScIXC49bkupzLNLLBWx37cwJe8nau13Ctu-fFVknhaK1mTokbmKigIBZEDcjlWWcX9jCq5RrQucP2w/s320/Cypress-Stars700.jpg" width="276" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Dear Friends,<br />
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I would like to share some of my recent artwork with you.<br />
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Last May, at the opening of my show at the Jerusalem Theatre, I spoke about the border between ornament and art, and about my exploration of ornament's potential as a vehicle for emotional and artistic expression. I have found this subject to be even deeper and more gratifying than I had imagined. While applying more and more layers to each painting, I alternatively create denser layers of pattern, or masks to hide or mutate them. Like a toddler building a tower of blocks, building, knocking down, and building again. At the same time, my own levels of raw emotions vacillate with a desire to return to a well behaved and pretty aesthetic. Like the naughty child in Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are".<br />
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My goal is to stop working at that enigmatic point in time, when I feel that this tug of war, has reached a perfect tie: The war is between impulsive, yet engaging "bad taste" and refined, pleasing "good taste". The moment when our tense concentration, breaks into a humorous, joyous smile.<br />
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I use the power or delicacy of pattern, to counterbalance my deliberately coarse executed of earlier layers; to correct my deliberately imperfect compositions, and to make peace with waring colors. I prefer to initially attack the canvas as quickly as possible, from my gut. Then I patiently, thoughtfully and joyfully, build up the painting to that moment of equilibrium. Perhaps we all get gratification from fixing broken things.<br />
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</a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjICr2YYe4A_8FN2QuYE3gBziEp7jDK7id_QmjPqdbIeavViF-JmHtTPo9ZSllOZnQcBOtz73SW9mI8WXvluyvbqnXDKVN8iqraz4wT_LSJr2mjQ8yaXvsEg9exyvhKzTbltG1fGg/s1600/mazal-gang-show-final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>When artists paint portraits of others, in a sense they are always painting themselves. Likewise, I feel that even when painting the most neutral of objects, these works reflect my own search for self identity. Our teenage self definitions get redefined over time, as we mature, change our family and work roles, and re clarify our values.<br />
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I find that self humor is a great tool. Perhaps that is why so many of my works contain either a well balanced, symmetrically placed <br />
object, over a joyfully chaotic undercoat, or impossibly off balanced bowls, about to roll off of the canvas.<br />
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If any of you folks are here in Jerusalem, please join me at the opening of my newest exhibition:<br />
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Tuesday Feb. 20 2012, from 6 - 9 pm<br />
at the AACI Center, 2 Poalei Zedek St. corner of Pierre Koenig, 4th floor. (across from the Hadar Mall in Talpiot)<br />
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<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}">Still Life: Breaking New Ground. <br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Group show at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich CT, exploring 5 artists’ differing approaches to the genre. Oct 27 – Dec 7, 2011</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Opening Reception – Thursday, Oct 27 6 – 8 PM.</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Artists’ Talk – Sunday Oct 30, 2 PM.</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Greenwich Library, 101 W. Putnam St. Greenwich CT</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Just half an hour from NYC, I look forward to meeting anyone in the area!</span><br style="font-weight: normal;" /> <br style="font-weight: normal;" /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <i>The Flinn Gallery is a non-profit, education oriented exhibition space that presents art in all mediums from a wide range of periods, visions and techniques. Located in the Greenwich Library, the Flinn has a developed a fine reputation for introducing innovative artist since 1928.</i></span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h6>mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-75427109234547331482011-06-09T13:53:00.002+03:002011-06-09T13:53:41.177+03:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1OPeXIJ5TndIWmoV_UctYgzE1WCwDiIFXXb8O5pts0NWVtSwBCRHuKpxvlnTNW_HHXJX741r4o_AHMOguNuR6Qthp0aGzfZQbK8yOHpYQS1DHPiZMLKwAc2uPYlHYk1ZKdj61A/s1600/Invite-email1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1OPeXIJ5TndIWmoV_UctYgzE1WCwDiIFXXb8O5pts0NWVtSwBCRHuKpxvlnTNW_HHXJX741r4o_AHMOguNuR6Qthp0aGzfZQbK8yOHpYQS1DHPiZMLKwAc2uPYlHYk1ZKdj61A/s320/Invite-email1.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><br />
On June 24 I will be opening a show of my recent works. The title reflects my fascination with surface tension in painting: Painting was by definition 2 dimensional, but in reality, it is anything but that: Paint has body. Paper and canvas have texture, little mountains and crevices. And all patterns and repetitions indicate movement.<br />
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I will plagiarize a lovely comment on my Facebook page, that expresses my goal:<br />
"<span data-jsid="text">Your works are so vibrant and somehow contain movement in each, I don't know if I 'look' at your paintings as much as 'watch. Very aptly named show." (Thanks Ruth)</span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">If you are in Jerusalem, please come by! </span><br />
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</span>mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-10030759760082921822011-03-02T16:02:00.004+02:002011-03-02T16:06:45.848+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJhjC1nu2MYowPJH9sIMrhz4QWfnbgMRs-DjDgo7_5-TyOjd9CfKuI4RMgn4UcRG0IeGg-YjKWye46fAaDeYCBLiLB3d4ce3dVIGby2XyRJS09QxlHEh9W6BfmtD8jHGxxdnmdtw/s1600/Kisalon1-900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJhjC1nu2MYowPJH9sIMrhz4QWfnbgMRs-DjDgo7_5-TyOjd9CfKuI4RMgn4UcRG0IeGg-YjKWye46fAaDeYCBLiLB3d4ce3dVIGby2XyRJS09QxlHEh9W6BfmtD8jHGxxdnmdtw/s400/Kisalon1-900.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Pencil, watercolor and gouache sketch of the Jerusalem Mountains near Kesalon, June 2010mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-12599851953144237802010-11-28T15:28:00.001+02:002010-11-28T15:28:10.431+02:00Bottles 2010 - by Chanan Mazal<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/5214480624/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5282/5214480624_b0e20c5a8b_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/5214480624/">Bottles 2010 - by Chanan Mazal</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mazalart/">Mazalart / Chanan Mazal</a></span><br clear="all" /><p></p>mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-56592681780049136372010-11-18T12:31:00.002+02:002010-11-18T12:32:28.303+02:00<a href="http://goo.gl/photos/2nSMTfjlfI" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nvzYGuTee_0/TOT5ctf4BwE/AAAAAAAADX4/cR60LSbtj84/s160-c/FlinnGalleryProsposal.jpg" /> </a><br />
Online slideshow portfolio of my recent workmazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-25934242728810522642010-10-21T14:05:00.001+02:002010-10-21T14:05:18.312+02:00Self Portrait as Starving Artist<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/5101550651/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5101550651_d19b72cb86_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/5101550651/">self portrait as starving artist</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mazalart/">Mazalart / Chanan Mazal</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Oil, early 2010, two short sessions</p>mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-11940195094962342492010-10-21T14:04:00.001+02:002010-10-21T14:04:16.063+02:00Self Portrait as the Statue of Liberty<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/5101550741/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1244/5101550741_8d7260591b_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/5101550741/">Self Portrait as the Statue of Liberty</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mazalart/">Mazalart / Chanan Mazal</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Oil, Spring 2010</p>mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-74613203175210766262010-10-19T13:04:00.002+02:002010-10-19T13:09:24.593+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SqnvqD2SlQyqa053gbDeuJD_P-kuUUYbYK49C-HwoifuDC7WCmnB_DBgyOhBFwqskGf7B3ryLJCkf4SeW-_cwBhUYtJDo6_zCuAs7B-u39mtozhS7lORhGN2UIV6HGPJ9FYdig/s1600/Bottles1-900W.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SqnvqD2SlQyqa053gbDeuJD_P-kuUUYbYK49C-HwoifuDC7WCmnB_DBgyOhBFwqskGf7B3ryLJCkf4SeW-_cwBhUYtJDo6_zCuAs7B-u39mtozhS7lORhGN2UIV6HGPJ9FYdig/s400/Bottles1-900W.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Gouache is the Cinderella of painting media. So versatile and so underestimated. Unlike the previous post, with works on canvas, these colors look accurate, at least on my screen.<br />
The bowl was painted in June, and the bottles in October. The latter has since been interpreted in canvas. Both began with wild, quick yellow green brushstrokes, covering the entire frame.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Original gouache paintings by Jerusalem artist Chanan Mazal</span>mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-87760652391518105322010-10-19T12:57:00.002+02:002010-10-19T13:10:05.627+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmflh6pqZ5lHsHhqa78W9_t_G9-QUphpZafBAjhgX00VHhVp0DEMnOo1MmOY0Yd4iUBjYszXP68Z7vAtnv0BwQItiMtuoNjQuWZzFPSKZ9gmys9XPgCEzqGQqeA9Xu3FHgCcOiw/s1600/Cypress_Canvas3-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmflh6pqZ5lHsHhqa78W9_t_G9-QUphpZafBAjhgX00VHhVp0DEMnOo1MmOY0Yd4iUBjYszXP68Z7vAtnv0BwQItiMtuoNjQuWZzFPSKZ9gmys9XPgCEzqGQqeA9Xu3FHgCcOiw/s400/Cypress_Canvas3-600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Acrylic on Canvas, painted in June 2010.mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-90799142850274385412010-07-19T14:00:00.003+03:002010-07-19T14:01:48.197+03:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/4737550513/" title="photo sharing"><img alt="" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4737550513_63fce7a71e_m.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazalart/4737550513/">Cypress Trees - by Chanan Mazal</a> <br />
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This painting signed the beginning of a very productive few weeks before my recent trip to the USA. I investigated approaches to this cypress tree theme, over and over. My ulterior motive for posting this again, is that it is a link to my flickr.com page. Links are supposed to be good for Google results, so I wish myself search engine success.mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-58100520674859757032010-06-27T12:04:00.001+03:002010-07-01T13:46:15.908+03:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircB4Mo1B0Yzf9MqfKHDzZR0SuxaKsR2l09YEM59-ZRKjtLqsxWxuwk5SLzCQUJLf4h_Z91JostAGxM1aV6h2VvRyOh81MftpB8zmF5B32QwDxo80Naaoa4FT2zQQGxiXTs5P3SA/s1600/Cypress_canvas1-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircB4Mo1B0Yzf9MqfKHDzZR0SuxaKsR2l09YEM59-ZRKjtLqsxWxuwk5SLzCQUJLf4h_Z91JostAGxM1aV6h2VvRyOh81MftpB8zmF5B32QwDxo80Naaoa4FT2zQQGxiXTs5P3SA/s400/Cypress_canvas1-600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Cypress Trees - Acrylic on Canvas, by Jerusalem artist Chanan Mazal.</div><div style="text-align: left;">ברושים בשדות - ציור אקרילי של האומן הירושלמי חנן מזל<br />
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My first larger painting of Cypress trees on canvas. Based on my first gouache painting of this series, it was created in calmness. The trees and fields have inverted color perspectives. The trees are lighter, warmer and purer in the foreground, the fields are the opposite. This confuses our perception of depth, flattening the image. Distance is restored by both the decrease in size of the far trees and their placement on the top of the canvas.<br />
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My subsequent paintings in this series became more expressive, freely painted and layered. Even wild.<br />
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A return to my doodling days. Pencil. I drew this 5 years ago.mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-45598099507699964762010-05-31T12:30:00.000+03:002010-05-31T12:30:30.259+03:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPHHCwcA8et9LINzv91sX3bv2XjtGWeJiN9KphodJ7C3pUUlvbeL5js_J5lRvMP1f0yKac5sdM_YZgigOSog0kGt3Zu5FxDLcdmSDCIR-nNZ8XHgrkngyUfBRwvsSWPbGRD5D8Q/s1600-h/Dos-Kleiner-Iz-Mid.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313792879673631378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPHHCwcA8et9LINzv91sX3bv2XjtGWeJiN9KphodJ7C3pUUlvbeL5js_J5lRvMP1f0yKac5sdM_YZgigOSog0kGt3Zu5FxDLcdmSDCIR-nNZ8XHgrkngyUfBRwvsSWPbGRD5D8Q/s400/Dos-Kleiner-Iz-Mid.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 345px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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דאס קליינער איז מידmazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-7624906401416144842010-05-13T11:38:00.006+03:002010-07-12T18:20:06.385+03:00<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsyRVnr-lwI_VKE2GJ1i0QtKcmPZkYJSYQywUXUj0ZZ-OllyfRS-4lg_4JQS-k5CZ_XiM-MEzC0pETzZwOCgU6eEtlPyPv_kAxhh0m6eHzfXyNxFajX4b57P4MZtxAi7GymRMXIA/s400/Still-life-brown400.jpg" width="400" /></div><br />
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Ah! The richness of mud pies! The "ugliest" of colors lead to the loveliest of color discoveries.<br />
ציור גואש של חנן מזל<br />
46 x 61 cm (18" x 24") on 100% cotton Arches papermazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-4309113631592189142010-05-13T11:30:00.004+03:002010-07-12T18:20:39.141+03:00<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTi2v6oATmU2a-cRr62rIpuxlrCpgFILNLIA2HAY-PAfcXFfCfI_-xATbPlTQZh0Gz7hg9oolAaFWOm-1m4gZI8cW2238wKu2pgwU7C9f8hVBejsIQ7xa9LbVzHeotVNeiADoa8Q/s400/Table1-400.jpg" width="400" /> </div><br />
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ציור גואש של האומן הירושלמי חנן מזל<br />
46 x 61 cm (18" x 24") on 100% cotton Arches paper mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-74625547414581538012010-04-11T13:37:00.007+03:002010-07-12T18:21:53.151+03:00<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTLwFuwi8ArSO0gIzZWqgLpo-9FnjZar1m8nCFgv8tFAM5PiOGL5yGR_bMEgbD5KiyhLtLsa8HduRh8l-ox7GhSvxVf1WeKuf2JmrMBnt7h5bz5fkelCr8QcNV0rgBJg_SCyw1w/s400/Bronx_Crossing2-700.jpg" width="400" /></div><br />
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An emigrant's childhood memory of going to visit his Grandmas in the Old Neighborhood: Carsick in the back seat of the 1956 Oldsmobile; admiring the George Washington Bridge; Mickey Mouse' water tower, and loosing my hearing, while bumping over the cobblestones under the screeching Jerome Ave El train.<br />
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ציור גואש מקורי של חנן מזל, ירושליםזכרון ילדות<br />
46 x 61 cm (18" x 24") on 100% cotton Arches paper mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-22850745497398644262010-04-11T13:35:00.007+03:002010-05-31T12:27:11.080+03:00<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRWHJtx40GKf-7ITUvG4z7kyseL4dIz6UNkY1Zv7YRUVIyUPm5oh-JIDJjVSKyDl7y7aGCu0jiyytoo7AR-2NPa8P-LpbPLQPctiWBb1OQvzoBwzJ9_qs9TY8_adjLyuTMi1a5Nw/s400/GWB-2-700.jpg" width="400" /></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Farewell to the Old Country - by Chanan Mazal</div>זיי געזונט, דער אלטער היים<br />
George Washington Bridge, with the world's largest US flag on the New Jersey tower, and the Little Red Lighthouse (ah, memories of kindergarten) surviving under the NY tower.<br />
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Original gouache painting by Jerusalem Artist Chanan Mazal. 46 x 61 cm (18" x 24")<br />
ציור גואש מקורי של חנן מזל, ירושלים. זכרון ילדותmazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-25450372169384173302010-03-21T14:08:00.009+02:002010-07-12T18:23:14.832+03:00One weeks work - original gouache paintings by Chanan Mazal, Jerusalem<br />
46 x 61 cm (18" x 24") on 100% cotton Arches paper <br />
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ציורי גואש של חנן מזל, ירושליםmazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-30775456862080363902010-03-14T14:25:00.010+02:002010-07-12T18:24:47.110+03:00<b>Cypress Trees by Chanan Mazal</b><br />
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Original gouache paintings by Chanan Mazal, Jerusalem 31 x 41 cm (12"x 16") on 100%cotton Arches paper<br />
ציור גואש מקורי של חנן מזל, ירושליםmazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-83053288297771219272010-02-14T12:15:00.003+02:002010-05-05T14:56:39.200+03:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc1AxEboeyzA4CqFEutxEmhYHTvOLy6_XmLabeGNtEvQfSMtz_-a3NqAMONeI7pqtvwC83U5MzLKi4x7WSJX7sj1PzWb0F8ALtliyYKOkY966p5uO8Fw-Mgbhkf65ecxmbYqxlDQ/s1600-h/olive-triptych600.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438041022937011106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc1AxEboeyzA4CqFEutxEmhYHTvOLy6_XmLabeGNtEvQfSMtz_-a3NqAMONeI7pqtvwC83U5MzLKi4x7WSJX7sj1PzWb0F8ALtliyYKOkY966p5uO8Fw-Mgbhkf65ecxmbYqxlDQ/s400/olive-triptych600.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 289px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
Gouache 26 x 36 cm, by Chanan Mazal<br />
Once again, I used my recurring symbols of olive trees, the round, teraced Judean Hills, the walls of Old Jerusalem and a flat yellow-orange sky, to experiment with patterns rhythms and enlivening musty colors. Alas, even after photoshopping, the colors are off.)<br />
ציור גואש מקורי של חנן מזל, ירושליםmazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19604277.post-1217563778776756342010-02-14T12:02:00.008+02:002010-05-11T01:38:49.906+03:00Ink Drawings<br />
25 years ago, I knew that that india ink was my medium, but never devoted myself to it. I find the expressiveness of the flexible quill, and the warm black washes, to be close to my soul. And it is much less expensive than psychotherapy.<br />
Back then, in my foolish youth, I used rapidographs - fixed thickness technical pens, for drawing. How awfull!<br />
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The model was set up by others in my drawing class and had a lot of drama: A somewhat androgynous wooden doll ( I made it more girlish) an rather overly macho plaster cast, and an umbrella handle.<br />
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My first ever drawing using white ink. Next time I will dilute the ink more. I wanted to redarken sections with black ink - but ran out of time.mazalarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03547586182046282755noreply@blogger.com0