Details
- Dimensions
- 15.75ʺW × 1.19ʺD × 15.75ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- Israel
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Canvas
- Oil Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Gray
- Condition Notes
- Excellent Excellent less
- Description
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This early work by Jacob El Hanani was done in 1972. It is oil and ink on canvas laid down …
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This early work by Jacob El Hanani was done in 1972. It is oil and ink on canvas laid down on cardboard and and floating in an oak wood frame. Measurements with the frame are 40x40 cm. It is hand signed in Hebrew in the bottom right.
Jacob El Hanani was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1947 and grew up in Israel. His work draws upon the tradition of micrography in Judaism, a technique utilized in decoration and transcribing holy texts. El Hanani creates highly intricate works through the painstaking repetition of minuscule marks, often Hebrew letters repeated thousands of times using ink on paper or canvas. The repetition represents a prayer, or Tehilim. Tehilim refers to a collection of 150 Psalms that express thanks, beseech, praise, love, and fear, for God. He draws these images without magnification; in order to reduce eye strain, he rests every ten minutes. The end result is a work of extraordinary detail that appears to be a pattern from a distance, and speaks of the passage of time and the link between the microscopic and the infinite. less
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