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Agam and midcentury modern
Yaacov Agam sits right at the hinge between midcentury modern visual language and a very different, kinetic, Jewishly-inflected mysticism. Agam in the midcentury modern milieu Agam is generationally and geographically a midcentury modern artist. Born in 1928 in pre‑state Palestine, he studied in Jerusalem and then at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich under Johannes Itten, one…
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Kinetic Art = Non-static
A jewish view of “acceptable” art that does not violate the 2nd commandment is art that changes, either of its its own accord or the movement/participation of the viewer.
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From Talmud to Agam Image
Talmud Page Color outlines of Talmud Page elements
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Right to Left
The Hebrew of the Torah scroll is written from right to left Unlike the languages predominant in the resident countries of significant percentages of the Jewish populations through the centuries, the Torah like modern hebrew is written and read from the right to the left. This means that the active reader must develop the skills…
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Hebraic
Melvin Alexenberg sheds light on Hebraic consciousness: In his book The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness, Melvin Alexenberg builds upon the scholarship of Thorleif Boman whose study of the language of the Hebrew Scriptures leads him to characterize the people of the scriptures: “If Israelite thinking is to…