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Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
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Chaim Soutine
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1925–1935
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Much of Adler’s work has a Jewish subject. In his native Poland, it was customary for small bands of players to go from house to house performing skits on the holiday of Purim. The group of figures in…
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Jankel Adler
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1931
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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…
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Ross Bleckner
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New York, United States of America
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1989
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Hershberg is considered one of the leading realist painters of our time. He has said that a true artist sees reality as a “continual feast, a never-ending delight to the eyes,” and hopes that his…
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Israel Hershberg
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1992
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Lellouche produced a series of large paintings, self-portraits or portraits of one or two people, set in panoramic landscapes. In Self-Portrait at Sunset, the artist has…
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Ofer Lellouche
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1993
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The iconography in Pichhadze’s paintings from the 1980s defies easy definition. This untitled work incorporates both abstract and figurative elements. The framed “nature” scene with its butterflies…
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Meir Pichhadze
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1987
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Tikkun Ha-Olam (Repair of the World) is from Benjamin’s Finding Home series, in which the Bombay-born Jewish artist raises questions about what and where “home” is, while addressing issues such as…
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Siona Benjamin
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2000
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In the 1960s, Audrey Flack began to paint photorealistic pictures with social and political themes, reproducing photographs of people from all walks of life, as well as everyday objects. Farb Family…
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Audrey Flack
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New York, United States of America
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1969–1970
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Eric Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting that the control of the Soviet regime was everywhere, in every corner of its citizens’ lives. In Red…
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Eric Bulatov
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1971–2000
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Yitzhak Katzenelson (1885–1944) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet from Łódź who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he was extraordinarily prolific as a poet, playwright, translator and public…
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Lea Lilienblum
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1943