Sacrifice of Isaac

Caption In his youth, between 1950 and 1953, Kadishman worked as a shepherd on Kibbutz Ma’ayan Baruch. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career. The first major appearance of sheep in his work was in the 1978 Venice Biennale, where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art.[2] In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic “trademark”.
 
Education • 1947-50 Sculpture, with Moshe Sternschuss, Avni Institute of Art and Design • 1954 Sculpture, with Rudi Lehman • 1959-60 Art, Saint Martin’s School of Art, London • 1961 Art, Slade School, London
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The sculpture was a gift from Rachel and Dov Gottesman to the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art To see other sculptures by Menashe Kadishman: 
Hitromemut at Habima Square in Tel Aviv: ]http://www.israelpublicart.com/public_art/?mode=preview&art=hitromemut-or-uprise-] 
Birth at Tefen Industrial Park: [http://www.israelpublicart.com/public_art/?art=birth-1] 
Birth at Sheba Medical Center: [http://www.israelpublicart.com/public_art/?art=birth] 
Continuum at Weizmann Institute: [http://www.israelpublicart.com/public_art/?art=continuum] 
Sacrifice of Isaac at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art: [http://www.israelpublicart.com/public_art/?art=sacrifice-of-isaac-1] 
Suspense at Tel Aviv University: [http://www.israelpublicart.com/public_art/?art=sacrifice-of-isaac-1]