EVERY Israeli artist faces an age-old dilemma.
Scripture forbids the creation of graven images.* but the compelling affirmation of the Talmud is "This is my God and I shall adorn Him." The solution for one of Israel's leading artists. Yehoshua Kovarsky, 49, was to move into his own kind of abstract symbolism, while holding to the philosophy that "an abstraction must have meaning for the viewer."
There is meaning in the most brilliantly realized of Kovarsky's works, a series of seven large (40 in. by 52 in.) canvases depicting the seven-day creation of the world (see color page). Shown last fall at Manhattan's...
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