Drawings Of Holocaust Survivors

In the latter one-half of 2013, a boyfriend together with fine art pupil called Gideon Summerfield developed a projection to describe 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 aeroplane of sensitivity both inwards price 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 twelvemonth old.

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

You tin see his drawings on YouTube (below) together with too macro crops on Facebook where they are accompanied yesteryear a narrative almost 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 almost his projection inwards a dyad 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 immediately inwards their 80s together with 90s almost their experiences every bit children together with teenagers, how they survived the decease camps together with the Holocaust. For me every bit an eighteen twelvemonth old, it has been a formative, together with at times traumatic, learning experience.”
Gideon Summerfield

More almost 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 tidings every solar daytime for 366 days.  Age 17 years old, he drew his in conclusion 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 run across a larger paradigm of each portrait of the mortal for that day.

Gideon is inwards the get-go twelvemonth of a marking inwards Illustration at Cardiff School of Art together with Design.  I predict this won't live the in conclusion nosotros listen of him!

What advice would you lot give to other immature aspiring artists?I approximate all I tin country is what my teachers together with other artists bring said to me… to laissez passer on on drawing every day, fifty-fifty for simply 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 almost the Holocaust

The Exhibition

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust ran a competition The Holocaust Memorial Day 2014 Art Competition inwards the Pb upward to the Holocaust Memorial Day on Mon 27 Jan 2014. This is the solar daytime for everyone to holler back 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 response to stories from the Holocaust, Nazi persecution together with subsequent genocides through creating a painting, drawing or slice of digital art. 

An exhibition is existence held 24 Jan - three Feb at the A-Side B-Side Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, v – nine 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 topic of Journeys through creating an master drawing, paradigm or a slice of digital art.

The winning artworks volition live shown at an exhibition inwards London together with at the Holocaust Memorial Day United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland resultant 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 line of piece of occupation during World War II, inwards the ghettos, inwards hiding, inwards the forests together with concentration camps.

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