This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
Star of David, painted in the Israeli national colors, White and blue, with cuts in the canvas that reveals underneath a yellow badge, like an Open Wound that would never heal.
Size: 50X50
Acrylic on canvas and cuts in the canvas
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
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Hayim Shtayer took this Photo of an old wagon with white six-pointed Stars at the entrance to Kibbutz Ein Harod. I asked Anat from Beit Shturman what are these stars doing there, and she checked it out:
The wagon had been used for cultivation of fields in Kibbutz Ein Harod and it was painted about 15 years ago by a volunteer from Australia named Richard, who married a girl who was born in that Kibbutz, and now they both live in Australia. May be Richard tried to paint the Australian flag stars which are five pointed, but eventually the stars came out six-pointed like the Israeli Star of David.
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Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
Star of David appears on an artwork by Israeli artist Drora Weizman titled Plan 2001
Size: 15X 22 cm
Drora wrote to me:
Collage paper and electronic components on a wood platform. At the bottom under the red wires there’s a silver Star of David made from the wrapping of a chocolate coin.
The work was created after a terrorist act in 14.4.01 at Kfar Saba and a few other
terrorist acts at Netania.
The work points at two main possibilities:
1. To connect all the components so that Herzl’s vision would come true.
2. To connect and wire all the components so that the whole package would explode.
Copyright:Drora Weizman 2008
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Star of David on a golden medallion paper appears on an artwork by Israeli artist Drora Weizman (b. 1956) titled Herzl 25 gram.
The work was created in 2000.
Size: 17X23 cm.
Technique: collage, golden papers, military decoration, velvet frame.
Drora Weizman says in the caption that she’s willing to give Herzl decorations and medals, stars and suns, chocolates and krembo (marshmallow treat), if only he’ll keep his side of the Contract. In Hebrew the word Contract has a double meaning, and is used also to denote a prophet (seer). Herzl’s nickname in Hebrew is “the seer of the Jewish State.
My interpretation: Herzl is a lightweight prophet (25 grams) since the “State of the Jews” which he envisioned has a large Arab minority, and since most of the Jews live in other countries.
Copyright: Drora Weizman 2008
Star of David appears on a metal crochet by Yael Falk who discovered that when a pomegranate has an ending of six it creates a Star of David.
Copyright: Yael Falk 2008
Reddish Star of David in a circle appears on an artwork by Israeli artist Drora Weizman (b. 1956) titled “Closet With Kits For Seeing a Wonderful Thing”.
Size: 63 X 29 X 14
The work presents all kinds of redemption sensors.
Copyright: Drora Weizman 2008
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Star of David appears on an artwork by Israeli painter Drora Weizman (b. 1956). In the background we see stripes that resemble the American flag and allude to the American influence on the Israeli culture. Also in the background we can read text in Hebrew. The text is made from cliché sentences frequently heard on T.V. A repeated term is: “core issues”.
Copyright: Drora Weizman 2008
