Bezalel-period art crystallized internal orientalism at the very start of Israeli art.

Evidence

In the visual art this complex kind of orientalism was manifested above all in the Bezalel period (1906–29), which is commonly accepted in Zionist art historiography as the beginning of Israeli art. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 589

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific Bezalel works and artists embodied this internal orientalism, and how was it visually expressed?