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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 02.1994
The picture represents upper interior part of a synagogue floor with rafters and boarding, over which imaginary beasts are painting. A big blue triangle with red horizontal strips occupies the center of the composition. The big Hebrew letter "Shin" is written at the top; a pinkish rectangle with fantastic yellow bird and plants is set in the center of triangle. An imaginary black-yellow lion with wings, painted in profile, facing left, is placed at its bottom part. Two imaginary figures with big eyes and ears, feathers, and five-cogs crown are painted in upper right and left corners against a background of diagonal red and yellow strips. At the bottom of the triangle an inscription "Razrushennaia sinagoga [Destroyed synagogue]. Grobman." is written by brush with black gouache in square Cyrillic letters. The big inscription "ve iachilu ha shamaim ve ha aretz" ["Thus the heavens and the earth were finished..."] at the very bottom of the composition is written by brush with black paint in big square Hebrew letters.
Name/Title
Destroyed Synagogue | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
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Date
1992
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Collection
Documentation / Research project
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Material / Technique
Brush, broad lines, wash layers of paint
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1000 mm
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Documented by CJA
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
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Ruling
Pricking
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Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
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Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Signature
Signature in L. within a composition; in LL. Michail Grobman, in square Latin letters; gouache, b.[p.] 100x70 16 n. 1992 Tel-Aviv, in Cyrillic square letter; in LR. Michail Grobman, no 2812, in cursive Hebrew letters; brush, gouache
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Summary and Remarks
The picture belongs to the group of the Grobman's works painted in expressive manner. Most of their was executed between 1985 and 1989. At the same time one can consider it as one of the works executed in the style called of the artist and art-critics "magic symbolism". Inscription at the very bottom represents words from the Bible (Genesis, 2:1).
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Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Painted in Israel. Not exhibited.
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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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