Mordecai Ardon

Mordecai Ardon

13 July 1896: Mordecai Ardon was born. He is one of Israel's greatest painters. Mordechai Ardon adopted a complex system of symbolic images in his paintings, taken from the Jewish Mystical tradition (Kabbalah), from the Bible and from a tangible reality. His work seeks to impart a cosmic dimension to the present, linking it to antiquity and mystery. In contrast to painter Yosef Zaritsky (September 1, 1891 – November 30, 1985 ), the father of the Universalist "Ofakim Hadasim" ("New Horizons") groop, Ardon is the father of the regional approach in Israeli art. In 2006 his painting "The Woodpecker of Time" (1963) was sold at for US $643,200. He died on June 18, 1992.