Rainbow Star of David
2005Single piece Signed Titled Framed
Size
25 x 24.50 in
Year
2005
Medium
Paintings
Reference
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Yaacov Agam (b. 1928, Israeli) - "Rainbow Star of David", an original work of art by one of the greatest living artists! A true 20th Century Master. This is an Original Polymorph and is hand signed "Agam." The image looks different depending on the angle from which you are viewing and changes as you walk by. The pictures show the various angles from the left, right and center. It measures 24.5 x 24.5 inches framed. As is his normal procedure on originals, he also signed and titled the back of the work. Ready to hang.
Not a reproduction but an original one of a kind work. To own an original by Agam will put you in a class of collecting above most others! Comes with papers and the provenance is one owner (us) purchased in 2007.
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Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art. Yaacov Agam was born Yaakov Gibstein in Rishon LeZion, then Mandate Palestine. His father, Yehoshua Gibstein, was a rabbi and a kabbalist.
1928 , Israel
Op art pioneer Yaacov Agam’s abstract artworks—which range from painting, sculpture, drawing, and ceramics, to stained glass and etching—typically incorporate light, sound, or viewer participation. The son of an orthodox rabbi, Agam first trained as an artist in Jerusalem, going on to combine formalist art with kabbalistic mysticism, and he is credited with introducing geometric abstraction to Israeli art. Agam’s best known series of works, comprised of painted strips that appear to shift and oscillate as viewers alter their points of view, would become known as “Agamographs.” He has also produced public commissions, including the world’s largest menorah, installed in New York City, and Star of Peace for Ben-Gurion university that fused the five-pointed star of Islam with the six-pointed Star of David. Agam met and was influenced by the Bauhaus artist and teacher Johannes Itten in Zurich, and also cites Wassily Kandinsky’s abstraction as an influence on his practice
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