Img. ID: 12401
The surface of the painting is divided horizontally in two parts, light and dark, according to the principle of the golden section. The lower part is black.
A vertically placed inscription in white cursive Hebrew letters quotes the verse of the Bible: "Ve amar Elohim ihie or ve ihie or..." [And God said:"Let there be light"; and there was light...] (Genesis, 1:3).
The inscription ends at the bottom of the picture by the date written in Cyrillic cursive letters: 8.12.23 fevralya [February] 1978. The upper part of the painting is occupied by the text imitating a page from a book.
It includes poems of the artist written at different times both in Jerusalem and in Moscow. The background of this part is white, the text is written by a thin brush in black cursive Cyrillic letters.
Name/Title
Construction of Jerusalem | Unknown
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Object Detail
Settings
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Date
1978
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School/Style
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Collection
Documentation / Research project
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Material / Technique
Brush, big surface of paint, writing
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Material Decoration
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Material Inscription
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Material Cloth
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Measurements
Height
172 cm
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Condition
Small losses of paint over all surface; spots
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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Textual Content
Unknown |
Languages of inscription
Unknown
Shape / Form
Unknown
0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
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Coin Ruler
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Signature
Not signed; there are inscriptions
Colophon
Scribal Notes
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Decoration Program
Summary and Remarks
The key to the conception of the work is contained in final words of the text: "Jerusalem of the Heaven and Jerusalem of the Judaic Mounts is a symbol of a person and his divine origin. The destruction of Jerusalem construction is attempt upon the person". The artist considers the creation of Jerusalem analogous to the creation the Light.
Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Painted in Israel. Exhibited: 1984 - "Transformatoin", Tel-Aviv Univrsity. Tel-Aviv; 1988 - "Michail Grobman" exhibition, Museum Bochum, Bochum; "Upon one the mountains", Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography
Cat.: "Transformation", Tel-Aviv, 1984, no 37, ill., n.p.; "Michail Grobman", Bochum, 1988, no 107, n.p.; "Upon one the mountains", Tel-Aviv, 1988, no 104, ill. p. 123
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Full Name
Volume
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Documenter
| M.G. 6.1994
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Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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Object Copyright
Grobman Family
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