Tamar Getter (; born in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

, April 1953) is an Israeli artist and teacher.

Biography

Tamar Getter, born in Tel Aviv in 1953, is an Israeli painter. Getter studied at Hamidrasha Art School with

Raffi Lavie Raffi Lavie (; 23 February 1937 – 7 May 2007) was an educator and music/art critic. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract expressionism. Biography Rafael (Raffi) Lavi was born in Tel Aviv, During the British Mandate. He began t ...

in 1971-1972, and soon after began to exhibit her works and gain recognition as a promising young Israeli artist. In the second half of the 1970s Getter created a series of paintings known as the

Tel Hai Tel Hai ( , "Hill of Life") is a name of the former Jewish settlement in northern Galilee, the site of an early battle between Jews and Arabs heralding the growing civil conflict, and of a monument, tourist attraction, and a college. It is curren ...

cycle. These works, which are dominated by scales of monochromatic colors and materials not considered "artistic," stood in direct confrontation with the images of the

series that signified, in Zionist culture, the myth of Israeli heroism, images of sightedness and blindness, and of corpses and torsos. She worked in mixed media (e.g., photography and drawing) and adopted various perceptions of space in one work. This collaged approach, and the use of different, alien components to deal with "heroic" subjects distinguishes her art. The conflict between logic and rationalism, and the expressive and grotesque dimension, appears again in many of the works from her late period, from the 1990s on, such as in the painting Double Monster (1996) or the series The Asia Society's Building (2003). In these works Getter reconstructs idealistic structures from Western art that emphasize the insufficiency of the human body, using squeegees of paint and mechanical drawing tools such as plumb lines. Her technique in painting tends to put together materials not usually combined. This collagist approach, which uses different and alien elements in the same work, characterized many of the artists in Getter's circle, Michal Na'aman, Yair Garbuz, and

, who probably was the artist who inculcated this principle in his colleagues and pupils. Getter also studied literature at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

. Getter lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Education

* 1970-72 Studied painting with

* 1975-1979 -

, Poetics and Comparative Literature studies (BA) * 1975-76 Art studies at the State Art Teaching Training College,

Ramat Hasharon Ramat HaSharon (, ) is an affluent city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon, Israel, Sharon region, bordering the cities of Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon, Hod-HaSharon to the east, and Herzliya and kibbutz ...

* 1983-1984 New York * 1986 Germany

Teaching

* Teaches in Bezlalel Academy of Art and Design

Awards An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be d ...
and prizes

* 1979 Tel Aviv University Senior Year Scholarship,

* 1981 The Jacques O’Hana Prize for the Young Israeli Artist,

Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art both from Israel and around the world. History The Tel Aviv ...

* 1989 Jack O'Hara Prize for a Young Israeli Artist,

* 1994 Minister of Science and the Arts Prize * 1995 The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art,

Israel Museum The Israel Museum (, ''Muze'on Yisrael'', ) is an Art museum, art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world's leading Encyclopedic museum, encyclopa ...

, Jerusalem, Israel * 1995 Award from the Kunstlerhaus Mousonjturm Guest Studio, Frankfurt am Main, Germany * 2003 Prize for Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Culture and Education *2019 Dizengoff prize winner

Gallery

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References

External links

Tamar Getter's official web page
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"Tamar Getter"
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