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This is a modern artist’s illustration of a painting of a seated male in profile, perhaps an enthroned dignitary. The painting was made on a potsherd from Ramat Rahel. It measures around 5 × 3 inches…
Jacob’s Ladder, painted by Grobman after immigrating to Israel, continues the artistic approach he formulated in the 1960s in the Soviet Union—i.e., “magical symbolism,” which used mystical imagery…
Borkovsky has said that he prefers to think of his work in terms of “cycles” rather than “series.” One group of artworks from the 1980s and 1990s, from which this work is drawn, is sometimes called…
Among the inspirations for Bar Lev’s paintings were American patchwork quilts, Mexican and Native American art, stained-glass windows, Russian constructivism, and pop art. She combined patterns and…
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…
Early in his career, Enkaoua painted many landscapes, including a series of scenes of Israel. Many of his impressionistic landscapes seem to hover between abstraction and figurative art. In this one…
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…
An artist with political and social axes to grind, Garbuz created two images from acrylic, pencils, and spray paint on plywood with the title Bad Waters. Three different scenes are portrayed in this…
Ben-Zvi’s early paintings focused on ecology and nature. He often depicted human and ecological disasters, calling attention to the fragility of human and animal life. The birds and insects featured…
Bezem (d. 2018)’s art, which once gave expression to his immigration to Palestine, the loss of his parents in the Holocaust, and his sense of rebirth in Israel, was dramatically transformed after his…
