fine art
Nira Chorev
FIGURE 13. Pastels and Charcoal on Newspaper.
NIRA CHOREV was born in Boston MA (1952), raised and educated both in United States and Israel. In 1970 Chorev graduated from Vocational High School, TelAviv, receiving a Diploma in Fine Art, in 1974 she graduated from Israel’s Art Teachers College, receiving a BA. Chorev was accepted to the School of the Museum of Fine
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Art (SMFA), Boston, MA to the second-year level in 1974. She received her Diploma from SMFA in 1975. In her Fifth-Year, as a post-graduate, she majored in Silk Screen and Drawing. Chorev won a fifth-year scholarship which she used to return to photography and merged it with the artwork she was doing at that time - painting landscapes on large canvases from a bird’s-eye perspective, looking for the contrasting forms in
