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Archie Rand (born 1950) is an artist and academic from Brooklyn, New York, currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College. [1] For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ...
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York. ...
Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world, including in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ...
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The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the premier art educational facilities in the United States. ...
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Education and career
Born in Brooklyn, Rand received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinegraphics from the Pratt Institute, and later studied at the Art Students League of New York under Larry Poons, who hailed him as the heir apparent of the 1960s art world. [2] His first exhibition was in 1966 in the Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New York. He has since had over 80 solo exhibitions, and his work has been included in over 200 group exhibitions. [3] The Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. ...
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Before joining Brooklyn College, he was the chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1999, and is a Laureate of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. [4] Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...
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Work Rand's work has ranged from self-portraits to themes like jazz and poetry, but he is best known for his work on Jewish themes, [5] and particularly for his painting of murals inside the B'nai Yosef Synagogue in Brooklyn, a three-year project he began in 1974. Now known as The Painted Shul, it is the only completely muraled synagogue in the world. [3] It has been suggested that Portrait painting be merged into this article or section. ...
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The Bnai Yosef Synagogue is an Orthodox Sephardi Synagogue at the corner of Ocean Parkway and Avenue P in Brooklyn, New York. ...
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His Judaism-themed easel paintings include 60 Paintings from the Bible (1991-92), Nachmanides' Letter to His Son (1993), and Midnight Festival (1995). [5] Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ...
His latest work, completed in 2006 after four years, is a representation of the 613 mitzvot on 613 canvases, each one the size of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, a series of images that will require 2,000 square feet of exhibition wall space, according to Rand's own calculations. [2] The first canvas — representing the mitzvah to know God — shows an astronaut seeking to discover the mysteries of the universe, floating upside down with a purple planet over his left shoulder. [2] Main article: Mitzvah 613 mitzvot (or 613 Commandments. ...
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was a talented Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic[1] polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician, and painter. ...
Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), is a 16th-century oil painting on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci, and is arguably the most famous painting in the world. ...
Mitzvah (Hebrew: מצווה, commandment; plural, mitzvot; from צוה, tzavah, command) is a word used in Judaism to refer to (a) the commandments, of which there are 613, given in the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) or (b) any Jewish law at all. ...
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Rand has said that he tries to avoid "Yiddishized nostalgia," [5] and seeks to create "unparanoid, unvictimized Jewish art." [5] Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ...
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See also The Bnai Yosef Synagogue is an Orthodox Sephardi Synagogue at the corner of Ocean Parkway and Avenue P in Brooklyn, New York. ...
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Notes - ^ "Prominent Brooklyn Artist Archie Rand Joins Brooklyn College as Presidential Professor", Brooklyn College.
- ^ a b c Wecker, Menachem. "'Beyond Insane' Biblical Paintings", The Forward, June 9, 2006.
- ^ a b Trimmel, Suzanne. "New York Galleries Exhibit Painter Archie Rand's Collaborations with Poets", Columbia News, May 1, 2002.
- ^ McBee, Richard. "The Painted Shul: Archie Rand and the B'nai Yosef Murals Part 1", The Jewish Press, April 8, 2002.
- ^ a b c d Rubenstein, Raphael. "8 painters: New York", Art in America, November 2003.
The Forward is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York. ...
The Jewish Press bills itself as the largest independent weekly Jewish newspaper in the United States. ...
Art In America, published since 1913, is an illustrated monthly art magazine covering the visual art world both in the US and abroad, but concentrating on New York City. ...
References - "Prominent Brooklyn Artist Archie Rand Joins Brooklyn College as Presidential Professor", Brooklyn College.
- McBee, Richard. "The Painted Shul: Archie Rand and the B'nai Yosef Murals Part 1", The Jewish Press, April 8, 2002. See below for parts 2 and 3.
- Rubenstein, Raphael. "8 painters: New York", Art in America, November 2003.
- Trimmel, Suzanne. "New York Galleries Exhibit Painter Archie Rand's Collaborations with Poets", Columbia News, May 1, 2002.
- Wecker, Menachem. "'Beyond Insane' Biblical Paintings", The Forward, June 9, 2006.
The Jewish Press bills itself as the largest independent weekly Jewish newspaper in the United States. ...
Art In America, published since 1913, is an illustrated monthly art magazine covering the visual art world both in the US and abroad, but concentrating on New York City. ...
The Forward is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York. ...
External links - Archie Rand's website
- "Collaborations with Poets Inspire Intense Freedom to Create for Archie Rand", Columbia News video; an interview with Archie Rand, filmed February 20, 2002
- Five Columbia Professors Receive Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching
- McBee, Richard. "The Painted Shul: Archie Rand and the B'nai Yosef Murals Part 2", The Jewish Press, April 16, 2002.
- ____________. "The Painted Shul: Archie Rand and the B'nai Yosef Murals Part 3", The Jewish Press, April 22, 2002.
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