photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Dick Ben DorDick Ben Dor creates a magical enchanted world which charms and captivates our senses. His work is open, frank and innocent, artless in a positive sense.Email Dick Ben Dor: dickbendor@yahoo.com
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor who was asked a few years ago to prepare drawings on Stars of David for an exhibition about Judaism Christianity and Islam which was supposed to take place abroad. After he prepared the frames for the pictures and the drawings he was notified that the exhibition was cancelled. In the meantime he discovered the artistic qualities of the frames themselves and introduced some of them as finished works. Here we see a work made only of frames in the size of meter and forty centimeters.
This is a summary (or an introduction) I made in Photoshop of Dick Ben Dor's series. Between the Stars of the six days of creation and the star of the seventh day there are hexagons and to me they look together like a white lily.
I hope that a manufacturer will make from this painting of a clock in a Star of David frame - a real product that will show Jews all over the world the Israel time...Dick Ben Dor is an artist born in Holland whose early years were spent on a Dutch farm hiding from the Nazis. His works do not carry even the slightest trace of this traumatic past. His uncle, the artist Niko Broekman, has been a cardinal influence on his joyous colors and bubbling humour. There have been two other major influences on his artistic development, Mmoti Mizrachi and Professor John Byle. the forms remind one of cave paintings and ancient drawings on walls, or sometimes the work of primitive tribal artists. Dick Ben Dor is a founder member of “The Israel Miniature Art Society” and is one of their principal activists, as well an active member of the Painter’s & Sculptors Association of Israel.All rights reserved to Dick Ben Dor 2007.
photo is courtesy of Israeli artist Dick Ben Dor.Painting is the way that man’s ideas, like tender plants, ripen into fruition. In the art of Dick Ben Dor, his colors sing. His world of symbols breaks through the barriers of life in a fusion of fantastic shapes that offer his audience a philosophical outlook into creation.Email Dick Ben Dor: dickbendor@yahoo.com
This is the last painting in the Star of David series of The Seven Days Of Creation made by Israeli artist Dick Ben Dor.Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor who made a series of seven paintings depicting the seven days of Genesis. Each painting is 70 centimeters high and made of 4 triangles: one big and three small.And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
A Star of David frame and on it a depiction of the fifth day of creation, made by Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor.And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor who made a series of seven paintings depicting the seven days of Genesis.And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Dr. Dalia Haker-Orion, who took part in the opening of the Star of David in The Israeli Art Exhibition in Yavne, about a month ago, referred me to the Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor. I contacted him and he told me that a few years ago he was asked to represent Israel in an art exhibition abroad, which was dedicated to the subject of the three monotheistic religions. He was asked to prepare some big paintings on Star of David frames. He looked for a carpenter who will prepare these frames for him but eventually had to make them himself. When he finished the paintings he got the announcement that the exhibition was canceled. Meanwhile people started reacting to the works and they were exhibited in a few places and next month some of these works will travel to a gallery in France.
Mindy Klein, a preschool teacher of 3-4 year olds at Netivot Hatorah Day School in Toronto, Canada spent numerous hours on the Internet researching Israeli artists and was instantly struck by the Genesis Series paintings of Israeli artist Dick Ben Dor, depicting the seven days of creation on star of David frames. She brought samples of a few selected artists for the children and they unanimously chose to focus on the artwork of Dick Ben Dor. The children were very enthusiastic about their creations influenced by Dick Ben Dor’s series and eventually there was an exhibition of these works on Yom Yerushalayim. Mindy Klein sent me this extremely cute photo .
Copyright: Mindy Klein 2008
It starts in the bottom of the paintings in the most black periods with rivers of Jewish blood which continue in all the periods while every layer is a period, but the blood current continues. In the top we see the state, and the pink upward indicates the hope to a better future and prosperity.Copyrights: Dick Ben Dor , 2007
The canvas of this work has the shape of a Magen David! 
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor who made a series of seven paintings each depicts one of the seven days of Genesis. In these days the series is on its way to an art gallery in France.And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Picture is courtesy of Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor who made a series of seven paintings depicting the seven days of Genesis.1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
This is a picture of one of the works that will be exhibited in Maryland University, USA, in a few days (21-23 September 2008) on a continuation exhibition to the Maged David Album exhibition that I initiated a few months ago in the Journalists' House in Tel Aviv with Curator Amili Gelbman.
Participants:
Amili Gelbman
Beigel Aviva
Hedva Zloter
Meir Salomon
Ehud Shcori
Sabina Saad
Nava Sidon
Amos Plaut (Germany)
Dr. Martin Kieselstein
Jacob Porat
Neomi Rotem
Dvorit Ben-Shaul
Inbal Kurts
Prof. Zemira Mevarch
Dick Ben-Dor
Orit Man-Or
Daniel Abecasise
Israela Engel
Lucy Elkivity
Anat Kohen Ahdut
Michal Ashkenasi
Miri Lavee
Anat kedem
Ruth Armoni
Tamar Frisch Helviz
Rachel Ben-Hur
Tami Alkon Lorberboim
Tami Suez
Dr. Tamar Recer
Celebrating Israel @ 60, 3-4 year old kids at Netivot Hatorah kindergarten in Toronto, Canada, drew on Star of David shaped papers the seven days of Genesis. They were inspired by the seven paintings series of Israeli painter Dick Ben Dor. Started the project their teacher, Mindy Klein, who found photos of Ben Dor’s Genesis series on the Internet and brought them to the children.
