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A Street in Neve Zedek, Nahum Gutman.
Jewish art, culture, literary expression and Jewish urban life richly metamorphosed, developed and adopted many changes and variants in the post second world war era. Jews began collectively and individually, autonomously and fervently reach out to world’s Jewish communities, to explore new aesthetic definitions, innovative art techniques and approaches, to define and examine old and new political ideologies and dogma about their existence, human rights, the role and importance of Judaic art in their lives, families, milieus, societies and newly born country. An abundance of magnificent and varied Jewish art styles, genres and schools saw the light and began to fertilize and enrich the landscape of world art. The once upon a time a primitive Hebraic-Jewish art of Eastern Europe evolved into a world-class art. Jewish artists began to gain world recognition and an international fame. And while adding an ultra-dimension to universal art, Israeli artists who redefined “JEWISH ENTITY IN ART” preserved the cache and essence of an ethnic Judaic art.
Photos from L to R: #1. Work by Menashe Kadishman. #2. Work by Menashe Kadishman
Anna Ticho’s sceneries and landscape of Jerusalem, Itzhak Danziger’s “The Lord Is My Shepherd”, a most inspiring abstract-intellectual vision of Negev sheep, the “First Seder in Jerusalem” by Reuven Rubin, “Prometheus” by Menashe Kadishman, “Shimshon” by Gabi Klasner, “Pardes” by Samuel Bak, “My Old Home” by Evgeny Abesgauz, the kinetic expression and stunning optic art of Yaacov Agam, the masterpieces of Leonard Baskin, Ben Shahn, Larry River and the incomparable Adolph Gotlieb, the “Windows Series” of Chagall, the unforgettable painting “Street in Weissewald” by Irving Petlin, the “Shrine Series” by Tobi Kahn, “The Jewish School” of R. B. Kitaj and the “Matzo Box Series” of Adam Rolston ascertain the superior art quality and genius of the Jewish and Israeli artists.
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