The Jerusalem Studio School is a private

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located in

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. Founded by artist

Israel Hershberg Israel Hershberg (; born 1948) is a figurative painter who lives and works in Jerusalem. Hershberg is the director and founder of the Jerusalem Studio School. Biography Israel Hershberg was born in 1948 in a displaced persons camp in Linz, Au ...

in 1998, the Jerusalem Studio School offers rigorous training in drawing and painting within the

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tradition. It is the first school in Israel that focuses on realist painting.

Programs

The Jerusalem Studio School offers full-time training in its "master class", a two- to four-year program with a primary emphasis on drawing and painting the human figure. The class is composed of roughly 40 applicants from Israel and abroad that are chosen for outstanding talent, commitment and motivation. Students work five days a week in north-lit studios with the option of continued study in the evenings. There are also seven independent studios for advanced students. The focus of study is on working from the live model, though students also work on

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, landscape, copying from the old masters, and compositional themes. Studies are augmented by an evening lecture series, exhibitions and demonstrations from visiting artists throughout the academic year. The Jerusalem Studio School also offers part-time study in drawing and painting in its Continuing Studies Program, with no prior experience required. In the spring, the school holds the Jerusalem Landscape Painting Marathon, a two-week workshop open to the public and taught by a visiting artist. It also organizes courses of study in the summer, both in Jerusalem and in Italy.

Hall of Casts

The Jerusalem Studio School "Hall of Casts" is an on-site gallery collection of 33 plaster casts which span nearly 3000 years of

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, representing examples of sculptures by

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Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspir ...

, and

Luca della Robbia Luca della Robbia (, also , ; 1399/1400–1482) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Della Robbia is noted for his colorful, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique that he invented and passed on to his nephew Andrea della R ...

along with ancient Roman and Greek sculptures. The only such cast collection in Israel, they were obtained from the Giust Gallery in Woburn, MA, which specializes in exclusive replicas from original Pietro Caproni molds. Acquired for educational purposes within the school programs, the collection can also be visited by the public.*"Hall of Casts" online collection
Graduates of the school have been described as "first rate painters."
In the Garden of Eden", Aryeh Tepper, July 14, 2010, Jewish Ideas Daily.

References

External links

Jerusalem Studio School website

The Jerusalem Studio School blog with articles on teachers, workshops, events, galleries
* Green, David. "Master of the Class," ''The Jerusalem Report'', February 5, 1998, pp. 42–44. * Hausman, Tamar. "Getting It All Figured Out," Haaretz, March 16, 2001.

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Programs

Hall of Casts

See also

References

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