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Yehiam (Life in a Kibbutz)
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Yosef Zaritsky was a founder of the New Horizons art group, which, beginning in 1942, sought to break away from the artistic conventions established by the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. He…

Contributor:

Yosef Zaritsky

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Date:

1951

Subjects:

Painting, Aesthetics, Kibbutz, Community, Agriculture

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Abstract painting of figures and lines.
The Choice of Paris
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Shamir is known for portraits and landscapes that explore Zionist history and his own family story. Many of his paintings are set in Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley, a village his family helped to…

Contributor:

Elie Shamir

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Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1988

Subjects:

Art, Israel/Israelis, Zionism, Ecology, Agriculture

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting depicting three women seated with buildings and hills behind them, above small set of images including cows and two suns on either side of an eye on left, a woman in triangle surrounded by snakes in center, and a building ruin with owl on right.