The Artist Project: Izhar Patkin

Artist Izhar Patkin reflects on Shiva as Lord of Dance in this episode of The Artist Project.

March 25, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In The Artist Project, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I don't have to believe in the Shiva, but I cannot ignore what this object was meant to be."

Artist Izhar Patkin reflects on "Shiva as Lord of Dance" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Izhar Patkin, born in Israel in 1955, is a painter and sculptor.