Israeli artist Moshe Gershuni was a pioneer of Israeli conceptual and performance art in the late 1960s. Among his many works exploring social and political issues is Red Sealing/Theatre, an installation of texts in Hebrew on the theme of “Who Is a Zionist?” at the Venice Biennale (1980). His prizes and honors include the Sandburg Prize, Israel Museum (1982), the Israel Minister of Culture Award for Painting and Sculpture (1988), and the Israel Prize (2003). His work is found at the Israel Museum; the Jewish Museum, the Getty Museum, and the British Museum.
Disabled from childhood polio, Mizrachi creates sculptures that relate to the physical form of his subjects. His work, as in the Peace Rider, expresses his political position and vision for the future…
Jacob Epstein’s primitive style was not to everyone’s liking, especially when it came to his sculptures with biblical and religious themes. The overt sexuality of some of his sculptures also aroused…
Zaritsky was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a modern art of Jewish…