JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum presents today Arie Aroch - Works from the Israel Museum, on view through December 13, 2008. In honor of the centenary of the birth of Arie Aroch, the exhibition celebrates the work of an artist considered a founding father of Israeli art whose importance and influence continues to reverberate in the local artistic landscape today. Drawn from the Israel Museum’s collection, as well as from the private collection of the Aroch family on long-term loan to the Israel Museum, the works on view follow the stylistic process of abstraction and formal development of Aroch's entire artistic career, which spanned from 1940s through his death in 1974. The exhibition will feature approximately 40 works in a large range of media: oil on canvas, oil, pencil and collage on wood and paper, painted reliefs and oil stick on reproductions. The exhibition is curated by Timna Seligman, Curator of Ticho House.