Harry Baron
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| Born | January 21, 1944 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Field | Sculpture |
| Movement | Modernism |
Harry Baron born 21 January 1944 in Tel Aviv is an Israeli sculptor and art professor. He was educated at the Berlin Academy of Art in Berlin, Germany and serves as the head of the Sculptor's Department at the Avni Academy of Art in Tel Aviv as well as the acting as the head of the Israeli Sculpture Studio. He is also the founder of the Israeli branch of the Round Table Club.
Baron is an accomplished sculptor and has has exhibited in multiple one man shows both in Israel and abroad, including an exhibition with painter, Juan Miro. He has been commissioned to create public art for cities across the world, including in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Berlin, Bremen, Tokyo, Japan and the United States.
- Honours: President-Honorable, Round Table Israel; Knight of Round Table, Great Britain and Ireland; American Israeli Cultural Foundation Scholarship.
[edit] Artist style - Stone Fusion
Harry Baron's technique for his scultures involves irradiating various stone or metal parts, minerals and pigments under a very high, dry heat. The hardening progress produces a rock, which the sculptor then sculpts. The geological qualities and textures of nature play a dominant role in his sculptures. The subdued earth colors of their pigments provide them with an additional dimension of expression. The organic forms are determined by archaic landscapes, subterranean landscapes, and cosmic metaphors dealing with the beginning and end of a cycle.
The innovative creational process, which convincingly combines highly technical and traditional sculptural methods, generates sculptures linking organic and abstract forms in an imaginative synthesis. The development of Earth, the threats facing it, and the feeling world of human, animal and plant phenomena are reflected in an amazing manner.
[edit] Milestones
1970-1971: Friendship with the artists Elaine de Kooning and her husband Willem de Kooning; providing assistance related to techniques for casting bronze, N.Y.,U.S.A
1975: Initiated and established the Round Table Organization in Israel
1980: Visiting Professor at the Free Academy of Arts in Berlin
1984 - 1988: Head of the Sculpture Department at Avni Academy of Art, Tel Aviv
Since 1988: Founder and Head of the Israeli Sculptors Studio
