Marie Balian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marie Balian

Israeli ceramic artist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-RhĂ´ne-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 13-Sep-2017

Profession: painter, designer, ceramist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Marie Balian

  • Marie Balian (Ne Alexanian) (September 1925, Marseille, France – September 13, 2017, East Jerusalem) was an Armenian artist. Her family originally came from the small Turkish town Kutahya.
  • They fled Turkey on foot to Greece in 1917.
  • From there, they took ship for France.
  • Marie grew up in Lyon, France.
  • As a six-year-old girl she began drawing and at ten she was doing portraits.
  • She studied at the École nationale supĂ©rieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon but had to drop out for financial reasons.
  • In 1953 she met her distant cousin Setrak on his way to study ceramic technology with Ray Finch and Bernard Leach in England.
  • They married in 1954 in Betlehem. Her contribution to Middle Eastern art was to introduce more Armenian elements -by adding trees, animals and birds in a primitive style-to renovate art, and elevate the craft to fine art and therewith brought her own cachet.
  • She added movement to what had traditionally been static compositions and reminded us of the glorious beauty of nature.
  • Suddenly, gazelles were prancing, peacocks were preening, garlands were flowing.
  • The concept known as the Gardens and Views of Paradise of Marie Balian developed.
  • She referred to 13th century after Christ when Persian artists were favoring garden scenes for their painted ceramic tiles.
  • Symmetry gave way to dynamic asymmetry.
  • At a later age she herself becomes aware she is a link in an ancient chain, and that she has played a crucial role in rescuing one branch of a centuries-old tradition from oblivion.
  • "It's very easy for me.
  • It's as if I had already done this in an earlier age, like the fourth, fifth or sixth century." She became the master painter of the Balian atelier in East-Jerusalem, the Palestinian Pottery and a renowned artist.In the introduction of the award-winning documentary "The Glimps of Paradise" about her life and art and worldwide recognition Marie is described as one of the icons of the Jerusalem art world.
  • The book "Birds of Paradise" further documents her fine art.
  • Modern media like Google Images and Pinterest show a variety of her work.

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