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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
Gershuni was a significant figure in the Israeli art scene, and over the course of his career, his art underwent dramatic changes in style and themes. His life work is evidence of his assertion from…
Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
The Lebanon War of 1982 began on 6 June, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon after repeated attacks and counter-attacks from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon…
Based on an earlier (1992) image with soldiers in mixed media, this painting depicts soldiers in a setting that does not suggest a particular place. Instead, the yellow background with various insects…
Bar-El uses found materials as base materials, painting and writing directly onto street signs, discarded furniture, posters, and other objects that he scavenges from the streets of Tel Aviv…
Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
Zaritsky was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a modern art of Jewish…
Gutman was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the Bezalel School, drawing on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to…
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…
