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The creative biography of Eduard Grossman naturally fits into animalistic, and figurative compositions. However, as years
the last quarter of the past century. His life has included a passed by, the priority of natural seeing is being increasingly
specialized artistic education in the Academy of Arts in Urals, supplanted by creative imagination, and then the landscapes
creative work in Chelyabinsk, repatriation to Israel in 1990, with that seemed to be quite reliable and recognizable are
his settlement in the artist colony at Sanur (which became a transformed into colorful fairies where natural forms and marks
permanent residence of the seasons of the year are not always found.
for his creative activities), and personal exhibitions in Israel,
Germany, the United States, France, Canada, and Sweden. In our days, the idea of the beauty of painting has lost its
Grossman took from Russia a serious professional training - a attractiveness for so many artists. For Grossman, such a
culture of painting, drawing, composition, adherence to category maintains its fundamental meaning to the full extent,
aesthetic and humanistic values so typical for the Russian art; and the aesthetic criteria serve as landmarks in the gloomy
this professionalism has not become a ballast, but rather a labyrinths of the post-modernist timelessness. In the presence
reliable foundation and the initial point for any possible of such a dramatic and contradictory century, in the state of
experiments, including some daring and radical ones. deep and prolonged crisis of the spiritual, artistic and
humanistic values, there appears a particularly sharp and vital
Problems exist and they will still remain, but one way or another need for art to present us with a colorful richness and charm of
they are solved under pressure of the mighty vital and creative the surrounding world. And having immersed ourselves into
energy of the artist, his temperament and striking the paintings by Eduard Grossman, again and again we grow
industriousness, and a fanatical love for the element of colors. convinced that this world is beautiful and wonderful.
Grossman confirmed himself quite naturally and casually in a
free, wide, and artistic painting. He used to work quite willingly Prof. Gregory Ostrovsky
and enthusiastically in such traditional genres as landscape, Doctor of History of Fine Arts, Art Critic

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