Young Palestine Artist Opens Museum Exhibit
San Francisco Chronicle
The exhibition of water colors, sanguine drawings, pen drawings, and decorative art by Zahara Schatz at the Santa Fe Art museum shows this young Palestinian artist capable of expressing such widely different places as Palestine, Paris and New Mexico. The group of water colors executed in Paris are splendid in restrained color, especially the paper of the race track which possesses an element of life seldom seen in contemporary water color.
The papers of New Mexico are mood impressions of this section of the southwest. Miss Schatz’s design is always present, but it never intrudes. She has caught the spirit of mesas, mountains, and houses.
The one paper of Palestine, a dry brush water color of a street in Jerusalem, is done in brown tonality, and contains a sort of mysterious charm.
The brown drawing of Dr. Olga Schatz, mother of the artist, is a splendid likeness as well as being a convincing plastic work. There is no attempt at cleverness in the technique, no straining after effect.
The pen drawings have a reality about them that pleases while it disturbs. In no sense illustrative, these drawings present the placesrendered, and go much farther in emotional intensity.
The posters show an original approach to the decorative and commercial fields. The color is strong but does not degenerate into triteness.
Miss Schatz is carrying on the work of her family. Her father was an outstanding artist and her mother is a famous art critic. The canvases of a brother have won wide recognition.
Young Palestine Artist Opens Museum Exhibit
San Francisco Chronicle
The exhibition of water colors, sanguine drawings, pen drawings, and decorative art by Zahara Schatz at the Santa Fe Art museum shows this young Palestinian artist capable of expressing such widely different places as Palestine, Paris and New Mexico. The group of water colors executed in Paris are splendid in restrained color, especially the paper of the race track which possesses an element of life seldom seen in contemporary water color.
The papers of New Mexico are mood impressions of this section of the southwest. Miss Schatz’s design is always present, but it never intrudes. She has caught the spirit of mesas, mountains, and houses.
The one paper of Palestine, a dry brush water color of a street in Jerusalem, is done in brown tonality, and contains a sort of mysterious charm.
The brown drawing of Dr. Olga Schatz, mother of the artist, is a splendid likeness as well as being a convincing plastic work. There is no attempt at cleverness in the technique, no straining after effect.
The pen drawings have a reality about them that pleases while it disturbs. In no sense illustrative, these drawings present the placesrendered, and go much farther in emotional intensity.
The posters show an original approach to the decorative and commercial fields. The color is strong but does not degenerate into triteness.
Miss Schatz is carrying on the work of her family. Her father was an outstanding artist and her mother is a famous art critic. The canvases of a brother have won wide recognition.