ESSENCE OF ART IN TWO DIFFERENT CAMPS : THE ART OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
By Maximillien de Lafayette.
Photo:The
Blessings, Yaacov Agam, Israel’s Leading Abstract Artist and world wide famous
art pioneer
This article reveals truth, reality, unaltered dimensions, feelings, talents and major work of leading Arab and Israeli artists living in the Near East, Middle East and spread around the world. There are a lot of pros and cons opinions expressed herewith. They are NOT ours. Those opinions were deemed indispensable to be included in our article, because they constitute the very fabric of similarities and differences in way of life, politics, social structure and substructure, artistic ideologies and accomplishments, social and artistic struggles, genius, visions of today and tomorrow. This article should prove extremely informative and educational. We have included and encompassed several articles and statements issued by all parties. In addition, we have carefully selected the work of featured Arab and Israeli artists for obvious reasons. We are NOT in the politics business. We are artists like you. Sometime we teach and almost all the time we learn. You will read about several communiqués, statements, reviews, news and articles that appeared in numerous publications and issued in very contradictory and parallel situations Art is like music. It is an international language. A universal human way of expression, feelings, fear, joy, sorrow, anxiety, hope, success, failure. Above all, art is the ultimate human truth.
Photos: 2 Pieces by Pinchas Cohen-Gan. Logic Furniture # 1. Logic Furniture # 2.
My confession:” I have never met a man or a woman who I did not like. In my crazy life, I came to know one thing and that what I know is NOTHING! Only art brings me close to a universal beauty and reconciliation. And only in truth or that Supreme Cosmic Intelligence and Goodness my heart rejoices and my tears are warm, because TRUTH IS THE PERFECT ARTIST! Real to many of us, Abstract to many others.” I still vividly remember this very particular sentence which goes like this: “ Upon visiting a country for the first time and to enable myself to understand its people, I look up three things:
1- The kind of music they listen to;
2- The kind of literature -and poetry if possible- they read;
3- The art they love and honor.”
So true! In this article, you are going to view the Israeli, the Jewish, the Arab, the Muslim, the Christian, the Near Eastern, the Middle Eastern art. There are a lot of paintings we posted on our pages. Many of them were personally selected by de La Croix himself, because he perfectly understand the message and philosophy of each painting. He lived for a while in the Middle and Near Eastern countries. He speaks their languages (he is fluent in 10 languages). He visited and honored their churches, temples, synagogues, Masjads, mosques, Jawa’meh, centers of prayers and worship. He lived and worked with artists from both sides of the fence. He ate with them, he shared their bread, laughed with them and whipped with them. Obviously, you are going to find AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE in the artistic talent and expressions of Jewish and Arab artists. Yet, there is this very thin line of beauty and artistic divinity that tie them and bind them together. This very thin stroke of the artist.
Kadish, Moshe Gershuni. Untitled, Moshe Kupferman. The Baby and the Bath, Michal Na’aman.
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