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Reuven Rubin and the Israeli Landscape
Reuven Rubin transformed the landscape of Israel into one of the defining subjects of modern Israeli art. Winding roads, ancient olive trees, shepherds, donkeys, hills, and distant cities fill his paintings with a distinctive sense of place. Table of Contents Painting the Land of Israel Road to Bet-Lehem Road to Safed Early Morning Roads, Trees,…
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Le Musicien and L’acrobate vert by Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall created a world where memory meets imagination. Musicians float between reality and fantasy, animals take on human emotions, and scenes of Jewish life appear alongside the visual language of modern European art. Few twentieth-century artists created such an immediately recognizable universe. Born in Vitebsk in 1887, Marc Chagall carried the memories of his…
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Two artists from our collection: Léon Bakst and Sergei Eisenstein
Although Léon Bakst and Sergei Eisenstein belonged to different generations and developed very different careers, both artists explored the relationship between the drawn line, the human body, costume, and theatrical performance. Table of Contents Léon Bakst: Costume in Motion Sergei Eisenstein Two Artists, Two Visions of Movement Two works — Léon Bakst’s Dancer Costume Design,…