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Throughout his life, Ofek's horizon was far from the mainstream of
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During the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s he was an active member of the
Leviathan Group, with the artists Shmuel Ackerman and Mikhail Grobman. The group, which was founded in 1976, combined symbolism, metaphysics, Judaism and conceptual and environmental art. Within the framework of this group
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In 1958 he went to Italy to continue his studies and to participate in the mural on a wall of the
Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Under the spell of the art of mural painting, which Ofek considered the primary medium of his work, he painted several of his best-known works, such as the mural on
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the wall of Beit Haam in Kfar Uria (1970), the mural in the
Central Post Office in Jerusalem (1972) and the mural 'Israel, a Shattered Dream', at Haifa University (1986โ1987).
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From the 1980s onward, Ofek returned to more traditional painting, which continued to feature Jewish themes, Israeli landscapes, and views of his city, Jerusalem.
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Night's Final Watch, Avraham Ofek: The Last
Gouache Work, University of Haifa, Faculty of Humanities, The Art Gallery, Haifa, 12 March, 1991 โ 12 April, 1991
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Ofek created performances and symbolic activities into which Jewish traditional symbolism was integrated.
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Avraham Ofek: Paintings, The
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to be autonomous, Ofek wanted to be social; when Israel's art was universal, Avraham Ofek was Jewish.
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