Israeli artist Asaf Ben-Zvi lives in Jerusalem. His work has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel. He is the recipient of the Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1989), the Israel Discount Bank Prize (1994), and the Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1997).
Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, composed by the Muslim philosopher Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi (1110–1185), relates the story of Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, literally “Alive, son of Awake,” as he grows up alone on a deserted…