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Ido Bar-El
1987
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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.
The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake
Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death.
The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…
This portrait of David Nieto was printed by James McArdell after a painting by David Esteves, London. David Nieto studied medicine in Padua and initially served as physician, preacher, and rabbinic…
Three donkeys from Beersheba, so they say,
Plodded slowly down the road to Dan one day.
One brown, one black, one white, they went their way.
The three passed by a minaret, and there
The black one…