Brand New!! Drawings Of Holocaust Survivors

In the latter one-half of 2013, a fellow together with fine art educatee called Gideon Summerfield developed a projection to depict Holocaust Survivors called "From Generation to Generation (L’Dor V’Dor)". Gideon's pen together with ink drawings inwards of the men together with women pen together with ink from Jewish Care's Shalvata centre are included inwards an exhibition which opens on Fri (details below).

I mean value they demonstrate an amazing flat of sensitivity both inwards damage of his projection together with the actual drawings - fifty-fifty to a greater extent than thence when you lot consider they were completed yesteryear a 17 yr old.

Portrait of Holocaust Survivor Freddie Knoller
From Generation to Generation
© Gideon Summerfield 

You tin plough over the axe see his drawings on YouTube (below) together with too macro crops on Facebook where they are accompanied yesteryear a narrative most the life of the private portrayed together with the object of their selection which is of import to them.

Read to a greater extent than most his projection inwards a brace of articles:

• Huffington Post - Drawing Inspiration - an article yesteryear Gideon Summerfield
• Youth Arts Online - Remembering With Gideon Summerfield - an interview amongst Gideon

“It has been an extraordinary privilege to larn from people instantly inwards their 80s together with 90s most their experiences every bit children together with teenagers, how they survived the decease camps together with the Holocaust. For me every bit an xviii yr old, it has been a formative, together with at times traumatic, learning experience.”
Gideon Summerfield

More most the exhibition together with to a greater extent than Holocaust Art at the end.

Prior to this Gideon had completed a projection called 'Sketch a Day' inwards which he drew somebody who was inwards the intelligence every 24-hour interval for 366 days.  Age 17 years old, he drew his lastly drawing sat in the BBC Morning News Studio - where he was too interviewed. Click the 'Sketch a Day' link to see the relevant page on his website - together with thence click a link inwards the grid to come across a larger epitome of each portrait of the mortal for that day.

Gideon is inwards the get-go yr of a score inwards Illustration at Cardiff School of Art together with Design.  I predict this won't live the lastly nosotros quest heed of him!

What advice would you lot plough over to other immature aspiring artists?I estimate all I tin plough over the axe nation is what my teachers together with other artists convey said to me… to proceed on drawing every day, fifty-fifty for only i hr a day. And to remain inspired yesteryear others.

A selection of the drawings completed yesteryear Gideon Summerfield inwards 2012
- drawings of the Olympics, the Diamond Jubilee, together with visits to Espana together with New York 

Drawings most the Holocaust

The Exhibition

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust ran a competition The Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 Art Competition inwards the Pb upwards to the Holocaust Memorial Day on Mon 27 Jan 2014. This is the 24-hour interval for everyone to retrieve the millions of people killed inwards the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution together with inwards the subsequent genocides inwards Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, together with Darfur.

People were invited to reply to stories from the Holocaust, Nazi persecution together with subsequent genocides through creating a painting, drawing or slice of digital art. 

An exhibition is beingness held 24 Jan - three Feb at the A-Side B-Side Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, v – ix Amhurst Terrace, London E8 2BT

Gideon Summerfield together with representatives from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust are judging the get-go e'er online fine art competition for Holocaust Memorial Day, inviting people to explore the 2014 subject of Journeys through creating an master copy drawing, ikon or a slice of digital art.

The winning artworks volition live shown at an exhibition inwards London together with at the Holocaust Memorial Day Great Britain number on 27 Jan 2014.

The largest collection of Holocaust Art is at Yad Vashem’s online Holocaust Resource Centre.

The Art of the Holocaust was produced, for the most part, yesteryear Jewish artists who lived nether the Nazi business during World War II, inwards the ghettos, inwards hiding, inwards the forests together with concentration camps.

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