Paintings with a Right Persuasion

The paintings in this folder are my few works
with an overt "political" message,

catalyzed by the impossible & grim

state of affairs in Israel & the world today.



Jihad Terrorist - Surprise!
 
Shaheed

airbrushed acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)


The surprised face of a terrorist
who has just blown himself up (and others as well)
and instead of entering a paradise with 72 virgins
finds himself burning in hell.


Perhaps my most macabre work
and one of my rare political statements
catalyzed by the impossible & grim state
of affairs in Israel & the world today.



The triptych could be used
for events to arouse public
opinion about extremist Islam.
It would be certainly a shocking eye stopper!
People have told me it is of museum quality
and ultimately I would like it to be shown
as a permanent exhibition
in a major public place for maximum impact.








The Face of the Generation is the Face of a Dog

face

airbrushed acrylics on canvas
26" x 62" (66 x 158 cm)

פני הדור כפני הכלב
A description from the Talmud about the (our) period
preceeding the Advent of Moshiach (the Messiah)
The "Face" of the Generation" refers to the leaders
who will have the "Face of a Dog"
with all the dissonant connotations this implies.






Swallowing One's Friend Alive
(The Expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif)
 
Swallow

airbrushed acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

Pray for the authority of the government,
because if there were no fear from it,
each person would swallow his friend alive.
(Ethics of the Fathers 3:2)



Link to additional information about the painting






Eyes and Lies
 
Being Watched

airbrushed acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

Relating to the duplicity and perfidy
of political leaders in general.
If you can discern the gestalt
of someone known and famous,
it is probably an accident
or perhaps a prophecy,
certainly not contrived.






Don't Fear the Dread of the Night
 
Dread

acrylics on canvas
26" x 62"  (66 x 158 cm)

From the phrase in Psalms 91:5
לא תירא מפחד לילה
Inspired by the IDF invasion of Gaza,
the eerie colors of night-time photography
and the camouflaged faces of the soldiers.






Antilogue #26 - Vortex
 
Vortex

airbrushed acrylics on canvas
37" x 37"  (94 x 94 cm)

"Hold my hand as we drown together into
the Black Hole of Oblivion"

Made during the Gush Katif expulsion
with a gestalt suggestion
of the already forgotten "architects"
who caused this calamity.







Eyeless Peace Doves in the Middle East

doves

airbrushed acrylics on canvas
20" x 20" (51 x 51 cm)
 
The Doves are a universal symbol
for purveying Peace but when the painting
is turned upside down something
very ominous and catastrophic happens,



peacedove




ahmad



Ahmadinejad and a nuclear explosion







Dreaming about Zionism
and the truncated Jewish Star


Jewish Star 


mixed materials and fly screens on canvas
37" x 24" (93 x 63 cm)


Zionism - to rephrase Herzl -
if we don’t want and value it,
will return to be only a dream
or even a nightmare.






Making the Green Line in Jerusalem



A canvas representing an abstract vision of 
the city of
Jerusalem was slashed by vandals
which caused me to recreate and collage it
against
a perforated screen painted in green -
a symbol for the divided city
that the enemies of Israel would like to realize.






Congealings # 6
  1. havangel6

airbrushed acrylics on canvas
30" x 40" (76 x 102 cm)

A sardonic view of Isaiah 11:6 prophecy: "A wolf and lamb will live (peaceably)
together", referring to Israel's (the lamb) future relation to its enemies, who will
be around but won't (be able to) harm. The problem NOW is that the "wolf" in
the painting has not yet read Isaiah. Poor lamb!





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