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.
Usually I don’t publish photos of Red Magen David, since I focus on the Star of David and the Red Version is a separate symbol, but this time I couldn’t stop myself because the design is so special. In this case not only the Star of David is red – the whole building is RED. It might influence other architects to design Blue Buildings to fit the color of our national emblem.
On the road from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv are scattered dozens of Israeli 60 Independence Year Flags, starting at the exit from Jerusalem and ending at Shaar Hagay. Each flag is an ambassador of our national emblem, the magen David.
Yellow Badge above the word Remember on an Israeli postage stamp issued twenty years after the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps to commemorate the event.
Designer: Yaakov Zim
Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.
Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008
This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree, which looks like a prophet, holding in its arms an incomplete Magen David, which hints to the broken tables of the covenant. In the background we see a calf head- hinting to the Golden Calf.
Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.
Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008
This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree holding broken triangles, which reminds us of the broken tables of the covenant and of a broken Magen David. The tree reminds us of the Tree of Life.
Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.
Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008
This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a tree holding broken triangles, which remind us of the broken tables of the covenant and of a broken Magen David.
Photo is courtesy of the artist, Jacques Heller.
Copyright: © Jacques Heller 2008
This is one of the about 30 works in different sizes, which were exhibited around Europe in 1977-1978, under the title “religious art”. We see in it a head of a calf with a Star of David and an egg.
Painter Jacques Heller is the president of the Israel Miniature Art Society. He was born in France in 1925.
