Moshe Gershuni ( 11 September 1936 &ndash; 22 January 2017 ) was an Israeli painter and sculptor . In his works , particularly in his paintings from the 1980s , he expressed a position different from the norm , commemorating The Holocaust in Israeli art . In addition , he created in his works a connection between bereavement and homoerotic sexuality , in the way he criticized society and Israeli Zionism-nationalism . He was awarded the Israel Prize for Painting for his work in 2003 , but in the end it was revoked and he was deprived of receiving the prize
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Moshe Gershuni