Israel
Art, architecture and design from Israel, from the Bezalel School and Tel Aviv's White City to abstraction, kinetic art and contemporary work.
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Modern art in the land that became Israel began with the Bezalel School, founded in Jerusalem in 1906 by Boris Schatz to develop a Jewish national art in crafts and painting. In the 1930s, architects trained in Europe built Tel Aviv's white, flat-roofed modernist housing. After 1948, the New Horizons group led by Joseph Zaritsky turned toward lyrical abstraction.
Several Israeli artists became known well beyond the country. Yaacov Agam made kinetic and optical works that change as the viewer moves, and Menashe Kadishman cut thousands of iron faces for his installation Shalechet (Fallen Leaves). The architect Moshe Safdie designed Habitat 67 in Montreal as stacked concrete housing units. Ron Arad trained in Jerusalem and London and made sculptural furniture such as the Rover Chair (1981). Photographers range from Micha Bar-Am's documentary work to Ori Gersht's staged images of flowers exploding, and Haim Steinbach arranges bought objects on wedge-shaped shelves.
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