Menashe Kadishman obituary

Sculptor and painter with a shepherd’s eye for natureThe many works produced by the Israeli sculptor and painter Menashe Kadishman, who has died aged 82, often surprised and provoked, blurring the boundaries between art and non-art. At the 1978 Venice Biennale, he displayed a live flock of sheep stained blue (a “moving painting”, he called it). He took care of the sheep through drawing on his experience as a shepherd on a kibbutz in his youth.Sheep became a major motif in his art, especial