The war for the planet amid the global warming and climate crisis, which has propelled environmental stories to the front pages of newspapers and the top of news programs, has also reached the art world.
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Israeli artist Oren Fischer recently finished a 320-square-meter (3,444 square-foot) mural titled "It's in Our Hands" in Kiryat Hamelacha in Tel Aviv as part of an international art project called "Hope through action" to mark 50 years of activity for the Greenpeace environmental organization.
Within the framework of the project, gigantic murals will appear in 12 countries around the world as a call to environmental action.
Video: Yair Zimmerman
At the center of Fischer's mural is a huge, humanized earth, with paintings depicting the complexity of its existential state through the use of humorous images and texts addressing pollution, wars, forcible takeover of resources by politicians, corrupt tycoons and more.
At the bottom of the piece are a line of people holding the world in their hands, a tribute to Atlas kneeling under the load of the universe.
Fischer himself, a resident of Tel Aviv's Shapira neighborhood, explained his work: "Painting is about taking responsibility, and understanding that people have the power to change reality with their own hands and shape the change they want to take place in the world."
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