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In the 1970s, Weisel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, made a series of abstract paintings inspired by her father’s tattoo from Auschwitz. The central rectangle in this painting resembles a…
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Mindy Weisel
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1979
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Angels were a recurring theme in Dorchin’s sculptures, many of which include the word “angel” in their titles. Toward the 1980s, he began to use iron for most of his sculptures. This “angel” wall…
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Yaacov Dorchin
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Kefar HaHoresh, Israel
Date:
1982
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The History of Matzah: The Story of the Jews, Part I, is part of a triptych series that employs text and three-dimensional elements in relief to chronicle Jewish history from Moses to the birth of the…
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Larry Rivers
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1984
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My Mother Posing for Me is one of a series of photographs that Sultan made of his parents, Irving and Jean, from 1983 to 1992. They were published in his book, Pictures from Home, which explored the…
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Larry Sultan
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1984
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Bar-El uses found materials as base materials, painting and writing directly onto street signs, discarded furniture, posters, and other objects that he scavenges from the streets of Tel Aviv…
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Ido Bar-El
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1987
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The setting for The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment is modeled on a communal apartment in which Kabakov once lived in Moscow. The walls of the small, shabby space are papered with upbeat…
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Ilya Kabakov
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1981–1988
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Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King…
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Ernst Josephson
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Stockholm, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1878
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Maurycy Gottlieb saw his art as essential to his universalist vision, namely, as a way to improve Polish-Jewish relations. As he said, “I am a Jew and a Pole and, God willing, I want to serve both.”…
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Maurycy Gottlieb
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
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1878–1879
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In late 1897, Camille Pissarro, the noted impressionist artist, known for his many landscapes and cityscapes, came to Paris and rented a room in the Hôtel du Louvre, which gave him a good view of the…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1898
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Though Benjamin-Eugène Fichel is better known for his historical paintings set in the eighteenth century, in this painting he documents modernity itself. Here a wealthy couple orders a meal in a…
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Benjamin-Eugène Fichel
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Paris, France
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Date Unknown, 19th century