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THE ART OF MORDECAI ARDONMordecai Ardon was born in Galicia (now Poland) and studied with Paul Klee at the Bauhaus in Germany during the 1920s. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933. He painted the landscape as a mystical and luminescent experience and paid homage to Jerusalem. He used symbols to memorialize those lost during the Holocaust and was one of Israel’s greatest painters.

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THE ART OF

MORDECAI ARDON

Myrna Teck, Ph.D. Independent Scholar

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It is said that the love of

Art cannot be TAUGHT

It can only be CAUGHT!

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So I hope I’ve made

THE ART OF MORDECAI ARDON

Contagious to you today! 66