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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…
Chicago and her former husband Donald Woodman said that part of their motivation for their multimedia Holocaust Project was the realization of how cut off from their Jewish heritage and how detached…
David is best known for painting with encaustic, a combination of beeswax and pigment. A Jew in Germany was painted with encaustic on wood. David often uses religious iconography in his works. In 1979…
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…
In the 1980s, during the AIDS epidemic, Bleckner began creating artworks that explored death, loss, and sadness. His dark and moody canvases included objects, such as urns, vases, and chandeliers…
Though Nikel’s style of expressionist abstraction has sometimes been characterized as lyrical abstraction, a style associated with Israel’s New Horizons group, she was not formally connected with any…
In 1981, Anastasi (who is not Jewish) began working on a series of works featuring the word “Jew,” because of its “charged” positive and negative valences. Untitled (jew) is composed of four canvases…
After noticing the prevalence of red and pink in a 1990 catalogue of Greta Garbo’s art collection, Livneh became attracted to colors. Red and orange predominated in some of his works and were…
