Israeli artist Ido Bar-El uses nontraditional materials, for instance, painting on objects such as traffic signs, military helmets, and automobile hoods. His solo exhibitions have included shows at MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (2001) and Meilahti Art Museum, Helsinki (2003). Bar-El received the Sandberg Prize (Israel Museum, 2006) and is head of the fine arts department of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Baruch Spinoza, the Portuguese-Jewish philosopher considered one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period, served as a “countercultural” icon for many Jewish artists and intellectuals…
This illustration is from Franciscan monk Eugène Roger’s La terre saincte (The Holy Land), a comprehensive study of the Land of Israel which includes dozens of etchings depicting Jewish, Muslim, Druze…
Abraham is a dark painting with an off-center black vertical stripe, measuring 6' 10 3/4" x 34 1/2". Its artist, Barnett Newman, said that viewing it was like coming face to face with a tall man. His…