CA – 13 FEBRUARY 2018 (THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.) At the California Lutheran University, an artist who was raised Jewish but attended Catholic and Zoroastrian schools in predominantly Hindu and Muslim India will share her art, lead a painting workshop,...
Siona Benjamin's art contains an intriguing array of cultural symbols. Take, for example, Finding Home No. 46, "Tikkun ha-Olam" (2000). The blue-hued, many-armed central figure is stylized to look like a Hindu goddess, yet her arms are in the...
Samuel Bak (born 12 August 1933) is a Polish-Jewish painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States.
Biography
Shmuel Bak was born in Vilna - Wilno, Poland...
Siona Benjamin, a Jewish-Indian artist, uses the imagery of blue-skinned individuals in her paintings. It's both a metaphor and a reflection of her upbringing.
She writes, "I regularly look down at my skin and it has turned blue." “It tends...
Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings showing, as one critic said, "the joys and sorrows of everyday life." Another critic noted that her still lifes, city scenes, and depictions of vacation locales were...
Amrita Sher-Gil (Punjabi:) (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941) was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter...
There is a painting of the two-thousand-year-old Mattanchery Jews Street in Cochin, which is in the Indian state of Kerala, Street with few people out in the sun. It's just like any other street in India, no matter where...
Amulet for pregnant women and newborn babies to keep them safe. In Kochi, Kerala, India, these were found. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Spanish, as well as the Hebrew square script
Diwali, which is celebrated by Indic people all over the world,...
The painting by Siona Benjamin is called Tikkun Olam. Jews believe that Tikkun Olam is any action that improves the world and moves it closer to the harmonious state it was meant to be in.
When the artist paints a...