Artist Mel Alexenberg
launches cyberangels from Israel to thirty museums throughout the world as
an homage to Rembrandt on the 350th anniversary of his death. These
museums have Rembrandt inspired artworks by Alexenberg in their
collections. At Global Tribute to
Rembrandt are posts for each of the museums and texts on
the impact of digital culture on art by the artist, former art professor
at Columbia University and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual
Studies.
“He had a vision in a dream. A ladder was standing on the
ground, its top reaching up towards heaven as Divine angels were going up and
down on it.” (Genesis 28:12)
Angels in Jacob’s dream go up from the Land of Israel and
go down throughout the world.
Top image: Rembrandt inspired cyberangels arrive from the Israel
Museum in Jerusalem at Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague, The Netherlands
Middle image: Cyberangels spiral up from a NASA satellite
image of the Land of Israel on a smartphone screen on Mel Alexenberg’s newest
book Through a Bible Lens: Biblical
Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media. They
launch the book throughout the world from the artist/author’s studio in Israel.
See praise for the book at Israel365.
Bottom image: Alexenberg’s lithograph “Angel Announcing the
Birth of Samson to Manoah” that has been in the collection of the Kunstmuseum
Den Haag since 1987 when it was called Haags Gemeentemuseum. In
tribute to Rembrandt on the 350th year of his death, his
digitized angels dormant in the museum’s flat files awaken to adorn the cover
of the 2019 book Through a Bible Lens. The Rembrandt
inspired cyberangels fly from the book cover to The Netherlands where the great
master had created a drawing of an angel announcing the birth of Samson to
Manoah.
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