The New Barbizon Group is a refreshing and important arrival on the art scene in Israel and beyond. It comprises five Israeli women artists who were trained in art academies in the Soviet Union, and later in Israel and Europe, who leave the studio as a group to paint from observation, usually in an urban setting. They offer a contemporary version of the tradition of open-air painting (en plein air), rooted in nineteenth-century French Realism.

Artists: Zoya Cherkassky, Natalia Zourabova, Anna Lukashevsky, Asia Lukin, Olga Kundina.