Maria Rosenblatt | 2 series

Maria Rosenblatt | “Old Masters Recreations” | “Dandelions Series”

Maria Rosenblatt is a fine art photographer, musician, and the founder of Beam Collective
( www.beamcollective.net)

Maria was born in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her exposure to the world of art began in early childhood when she started to play the violin. She graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and, after that, moved to Israel. There she decided to develop her artistic spirit more by acquiring new visual arts skills, studying photography in Gavra Photography School (Tel Aviv).

Nowadays, Maria expresses her passion for art through photography and music.
She plays violin in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and makes fine art photographs.
In her fine art photography’ field of interests, there are still life photographs with an emphasis on vegetal objects, work with the human body, self-portraits, and architecture.

“OLD MASTERS RECREATIONS”

The “Old Masters Recreations” Series started in 2018 with the picture “Summer from Compost Bin” which was my recreation of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s famous painting “Summer” from the “Four Seasons” series. For this work, I used the waste from my home’s compost bin.

Photographs “Corona. [Safe] Creation of Adam” as a recreation of Michelangelo’s fragment of fresco painting and “Self Portrait with Gloves” as a Quarantine version of Rembrandt van Rijn’s painting “Portrait of Woman with Gloves” were created during COVID19 Isolation period (2020).

For the background of “Creation of Adam,” I used some cracks on my walls. My hands in latex gloves became the hands of Michelangelo’s painting. It wasn’t easy to find the right positions for each hand, but after a lot of attempts, I succeeded in setting it.
For Rembrandt’s recreation, I made a collar from toilet paper rolls. Also, I used latex gloves, plastic wrappings, clothes, and accessories from my wardrobe. And I’ve been a model for this shot.
All the pictures were made at my home studio.

“DANDELIONS”

“Dandelions Series” was created during the COVID-19 Quarantine period (2020).
All dandelions were collected from the grove near my house. I used my home studio equipment to research different parts of dandelions and their seeds. While shooting, I suddenly understood what was so attractive to me in this object: I realized how much this plant, with its seeds’ ability to fly far away, symbolizes the freedom that I felt the absence of currently.

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