Israel's Web, Modern Art and Minimalist

The 1960's and early 1970's of Israeli art saw yet another effort to move closer to the common international artistic trends. During these years three major movements have been widely used: Open Art, Minimalism and Pop Art. At the same time, abstract art was still the leading style in contemporary Israel. In an attempt to implement universal ideas and concepts to the Israeli locality, Israelis artists who adhered to other leading contemporary styles created significant pieces reflecting their fascinating searches. Some minimalist and Op Art Israeli works articulated – at times consciously and unconsciously in other works – blurred hint at conventional Jewish ideas that preclude "graved" pictures from being abstract.

The Israeli Government funded modern art, which in that period was abstract and commissioned works for official monuments and public sculptures throughout Israel. One reason the government sponsored these sculptures was that they appealed to clerical officials who had to accept the abstract ideals of minimalism as "Jewish".

Pop Art was also a modern backlash towards Abstract Expressionism, emerging concurrently in Britain and the U.S. in the 1960's. Pop stars discussed in a humorous, insightful manner the contents and concerns characteristic of Western consumer culture. Israeli artists have been expressing their disapproval of Israeli social, environmental and early forms of political dissent in the introduction of pop values in Israeli culture. The Israeli art establishment or the Israelis' political establishment did not welcome these first artistic demonstrations.

In the Israel art sector of the late 1970's and the early 1980's, they would become strengthened in an other contemporary art – conceptual Art – that would become absolute style.