Mordecai Ardon (1896-1992) was a Polish-born artist. He immigrated to Israel in 1933. One of his most famous creations are the Ardon Windows, a set of large stained-glass windows displayed prominently in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem, incorporating visual elements from the Kabbala.
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MordecaiArdon's painting Sarah (1947) depicts the biblical matriarch in a blazing red dress, amidst a sea of blue-purple cloudy forms.
Ardon (1896-1992) has been called "Israel's greatest painter," and whether this is true (Israel has produced many phenomenal artists, including E. Lilien and Hermann Struck), he mixed a modern mode of paint application (bold and heavy) with a love of the European Old Masters, such as da Vinci and Rembrandt.
Ardon's observant father--who enjoyed regaling his son with Hasidic tales--reluctantly agreed, but he insisted that Ardon receive a formal Jewish education of Torah and Talmud, as well.
After graduating from the Bauhaus he studied the painting techniques of the Old Masters at the Akademie der bildende Kunste in Munich under Max Doerner (1926).
Professor Avraham Ronen, of the Tel Aviv University summed up the particular character of Ardon's colours in the following words: "Ardon's interest in colourism and colour-techniques is inseparable from his artistic credo.
"Modern art of the Bauhaus and the colour technique of the old Masters, are the two, seemingly contradicting, elements that forged the character of Ardon's painting throughout the 70 years of his artistic career.
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