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Jeanette Kuvin Oren
Jeanette Kuvin Oren is an American contemporary artist specializing in Jewish art, fiber art, mosaics, stained glass, calligraphy, papercutting and painting. Kuvin Oren (born in 1961) graduated from Princeton University (B.A. 1983) and Yale University (M.P.H. 1985). Kuvin Oren has been a full-time artist of Judaica since 1984. Kuvin Oren's work has been commissioned by more than 450 synagogues, community centers, day schools and camps. Kuvin Oren creates Torah covers (Torah mantles), Ark curtains, wall-hangings, Glass Ark Doors, mosaics, stained glass, huppahs (wedding canopies), marriage contracts (ketubot) and Papercutting#Jewish.2FIsraeli, papercuttings. Jeanette Kuvin Oren is the designer of the USPS Hanukkah Stamp 2022. Jeanette Kuvin Oren is featured in the documentary series ArtFUL 2023. . Re ...
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Contemporary Artist
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising that lifetimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
