Israeli sculptor Drora Dominey was born at Kibbutz Merhavia. Many of her pieces focus on her experience of kibbutz life and on Israeli identity. Dominey, who teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, is the recipient of the Israel Education & Culture Minister’s Award (2007).
Motherwell’s most famous series of artworks was his Elegies to the Spanish Republic, which he intended as “a funeral song” for the losing side, the Republicans, in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)…
When Max Liebermann first exhibited this painting, it caused not only a sensation but a scandal. Some critics objected to a Jew daring to depict Jesus, and they were offended by Liebermann’s realistic…
Since chairs and beds were valuable items and not found in average homes (people usually sat on the floor and slept on mats), it is possible that terra-cotta models like this one from Lachish…