Mordecai Ardon (1896 –1992) was an
Israeli painter.
Ardon was born Max Bronstein in 1896 in
Tuchów, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland). In 1933 he
emigrated to Jerusalem in Mandate Palestine. He was granted
Palestinian citizenship in 1936 and changed his name to Mordecai
Ardon.
Beginning in the 1950s 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. In his painting "Gates of Light", for
example, he expressed "the inner mystery and timelessness of the
landscape." His work seeks to impart a cosmic dimension to the
present, linking it to antiquity and mystery. The same approach can
be found in "At the Gates of Jerusalem" (1967), which shows
the attempt to "convey his feelings about the cosmic
significance of Israel’s return to the Old City of Jerusalem during
the Six-Day War". "Bird near a yellow wall" (1950)
demonstrates his simplistic involvement with the Holocaust, a subject
to which he was one of the few Israeli artists to devote a phase of
his work, at that time.As a teacher and director of the "New
Bezalel", Ardon conveyed his sense of social involvement, his
tendency towards Jewish mysticism and local mythology, and the
combination of personal national symbols with reality-always
stressing masterful technique. Wikipedia
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