Tamar Getter

Tamar Getter studied at Tel Aviv University. The recorded working language is Hebrew. The field of work recorded is painter. Work by Tamar Getter is recorded in the collections of Israel Museum. Distinctions recorded are The Jacques and Genia Ohana Award for a Young Israeli Artist and Sandberg Prize.

• Name — Tamar Getter תמר גטר • Born — 1953 • Birthplace — Tel Aviv • Field — Painting

Tamar Getter, born in Tel Aviv in 1953, is an Israeli painter. Getter studied at Hamidrasha Art School with Raffi Lavie 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 cycle. These works, which are dominated by scales of monochromatic colors and materials not considered "artistic," stood in confrontation with the images of the Tel Hai 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 Raffi Lavie, who was probably the artist who inculcated this principle in his colleagues and pupils. Getter also studied literature at Tel Aviv University. Getter lives and works in Tel Aviv.

• 1970-72 Studied painting with Raffi Lavie • 1975-1979 - Tel Aviv University, Poetics and Comparative Literature studies (BA) • 1975-76 Art studies at the State Art Teaching Training College, Ramat Hasharon • 1983-1984 New York • 1986 Germany

• Illustration — BLUE SLINGSHOT GIRL (vers.1)2003 • Illustration — BLUE SLINGSHOT GIRL (vers.1)2003 • Illustration — Death and the Maiden 2001 • Illustration — DOUBLE ENTRANCES 1995 • Illustration — CENTAUROMACHIA 2018 • Illustration — GO2 panel 8 - 2010 • Illustration — DER BETRACHTER - 2002 • Illustration — THE INNER YARD OF TEL-HAI YARD 1978

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that tamar Getter is recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded with the occupation installation artist. Institutional cataloguing adds that tamar Getter is recorded with the occupation performance artist. Recorded with the occupation artist. The same evidence establishes that tamar Getter is recorded as a citizen of Israel. Recorded with the gender female. Born in Tel Aviv. Institutional cataloguing adds that tamar Getter is associated with avant-garde.