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Sacrifice of Isaac
Menashe Kadishman
1985
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Menashe Kadishman is one of Israel’s most renowned painters and sculptors. He began his career as a minimalist sculptor in the early 1960s and became a leading conceptual artist later that decade. In 1967, he took first prize for sculpture at the Paris Biennale. It was at the 1978 Venice Biennale that what was to become Kadishman’s trademark image, the sheep, first drew attention, when he presented a flock of live, painted sheep as living art. In 1995, he received the Israel Prize.
The sunset grew bold: it insisted on staying
In the Red Sea at night, when the innocent pink
Young fawns delicately make their way
Downhill to the palace of water to drink.
They leave their silken…
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