Water Colours Exhibit Catalog
Israel Museum - Cohen/Miller
Louise Schatz was born in Vancouver, Canada and studied fine arts at the University of California. As a member of the"California Seven" group she created prints and patterns for textiles. She married the Israeli painter, Bezalel Schatz, and immigrated to Israel in 1951. Lives in Jerusalem and Ein Hod. She is a founder-member of the ״Yaad” craft workshop, designed copper pieces which were exhibited at the Triennale in Milano in 1954 winning her the silver medal. She also won an "above competition" prize for textile designs at the Bezalel National Museum in 1952. One-man shows she held at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Artists House in Jerusalem - 1953; at the Bezalel National Museum - 1957; at the Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv - 1966. She exhibited at the Sao Paulo Bienal - 1965 and participated in an exhibition of Israeli artists organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain - 1958; Forms from Israel, USA - 1958-1960; Formen aus Israel and Israels Kunstgewerbe, Munich—1960 and 1962; Israeli Painting, Bucharest—1969 and other exhibitions. She did murals for Zim ships "Shalom” and "Theodore Herzl” and the EI-AI office in London.
Looking at Louise Schatz' watercolours and collages one finds oneself transferred into another world. Amidst a wealth of colour shapes radiating light and warmth, a feeling of calmness and beauty prevails. The design, sometimes suggesting forms from nature, sometimes entirely abstract, is put on paper or material with a light and sure hand.Theartistic means speak the language of our time, but the world which is reflected in these small-sized paintings is as different from our daily reality as a fairy-tale from a newspaper report.
In this private world of hers Louise Schatz knows many moods. She can be gay, full of joy and laughter, but also subdued and even sad. In a surprising and enchanting way she combines spontaneity and restraint, simplicity and sophistication; roaming fantasy is controlled by the discipline of superior taste.
Still, it is not a world without problems, and the artist does not close her eyes to them. There is tension in each statement, the suspense without which no work of art has real impact. But tension never grows into clashes. A harmonious solution is always at hand if one knows how to find it. Louise knows, and each one of the small paintings ends up in being a perfect entity with nothing to be added and nothing to be taken away.
Little poems of colour, Louise Schatz' paintings stand like symbols of serenity and hope in a turbulent world.
- Elisheva Cohen
In mind, temperament and technique Louise Schatz is admirably suited to express herself in the domain of water color. Transparent, evanescent, vaporous, dreamy, nostalgic, clear as a bell and distinct as a glittering spider’s web - there you have the creature called Louise and there you have her water colors. She has her own language, her own vocabulary, her own very special way of looking at the world. She is at home with flowers, birds, cats, with sunshine and fog, and with all that is hidden, mantic, secretive and struggling for expression. Her paintings reflect and reveal her extreme sensitivity, shyness and delicacy.
Even in her painting she is all adjectives and adverbs - no nouns, no verbs, no exclamation marks. She makes pictures in the sky, in the water, in the bark of trees and the fur of animals. She has the skill of a tightrope walker and the certitude of a sleepwalker. Her medium is the reality which evades the senses and dupes the mind.
Often she is like a messenger from another world bringing tidings of events yet to be enacted. Her new home in the land of the saints and the prophets augurs well for her future as an artist. Long live Israel!
- Henry Miller
Pacific Palisades, California
December 13, 1968
Water Colours Exhibit Catalog
Israel Museum - Cohen/Miller
Louise Schatz was born in Vancouver, Canada and studied fine arts at the University of California. As a member of the"California Seven" group she created prints and patterns for textiles. She married the Israeli painter, Bezalel Schatz, and immigrated to Israel in 1951. Lives in Jerusalem and Ein Hod. She is a founder-member of the ״Yaad” craft workshop, designed copper pieces which were exhibited at the Triennale in Milano in 1954 winning her the silver medal. She also won an "above competition" prize for textile designs at the Bezalel National Museum in 1952. One-man shows she held at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Artists House in Jerusalem - 1953; at the Bezalel National Museum - 1957; at the Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv - 1966. She exhibited at the Sao Paulo Bienal - 1965 and participated in an exhibition of Israeli artists organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain - 1958; Forms from Israel, USA - 1958-1960; Formen aus Israel and Israels Kunstgewerbe, Munich—1960 and 1962; Israeli Painting, Bucharest—1969 and other exhibitions. She did murals for Zim ships "Shalom” and "Theodore Herzl” and the EI-AI office in London.
Looking at Louise Schatz' watercolours and collages one finds oneself transferred into another world. Amidst a wealth of colour shapes radiating light and warmth, a feeling of calmness and beauty prevails. The design, sometimes suggesting forms from nature, sometimes entirely abstract, is put on paper or material with a light and sure hand.Theartistic means speak the language of our time, but the world which is reflected in these small-sized paintings is as different from our daily reality as a fairy-tale from a newspaper report.
In this private world of hers Louise Schatz knows many moods. She can be gay, full of joy and laughter, but also subdued and even sad. In a surprising and enchanting way she combines spontaneity and restraint, simplicity and sophistication; roaming fantasy is controlled by the discipline of superior taste.
Still, it is not a world without problems, and the artist does not close her eyes to them. There is tension in each statement, the suspense without which no work of art has real impact. But tension never grows into clashes. A harmonious solution is always at hand if one knows how to find it. Louise knows, and each one of the small paintings ends up in being a perfect entity with nothing to be added and nothing to be taken away.
Little poems of colour, Louise Schatz' paintings stand like symbols of serenity and hope in a turbulent world.
- Elisheva Cohen
In mind, temperament and technique Louise Schatz is admirably suited to express herself in the domain of water color. Transparent, evanescent, vaporous, dreamy, nostalgic, clear as a bell and distinct as a glittering spider’s web - there you have the creature called Louise and there you have her water colors. She has her own language, her own vocabulary, her own very special way of looking at the world. She is at home with flowers, birds, cats, with sunshine and fog, and with all that is hidden, mantic, secretive and struggling for expression. Her paintings reflect and reveal her extreme sensitivity, shyness and delicacy.
Even in her painting she is all adjectives and adverbs - no nouns, no verbs, no exclamation marks. She makes pictures in the sky, in the water, in the bark of trees and the fur of animals. She has the skill of a tightrope walker and the certitude of a sleepwalker. Her medium is the reality which evades the senses and dupes the mind.
Often she is like a messenger from another world bringing tidings of events yet to be enacted. Her new home in the land of the saints and the prophets augurs well for her future as an artist. Long live Israel!
- Henry Miller
Pacific Palisades, California
December 13, 1968