Art and Torah. Correction of middos. Plummeting to the truth.
For Torah is to correct the person. There is learning Torah and there is practicing Torah, and our Sages of blessed memory have already taught us: learing is not the essential matter rather the performance (of the Torah). So here is an awesome new hidush. Art of Torah. What is art of Torah. […]
Attempts to provide inroads to understanding my artwork
exchange of letters with Reb Yehoshua Wiseman, hy”v: It is entirely possible that certain art can appear very spiritual, and be seemingly motivated by a struggle to distinguish truth from falsehood and good from bad and to choose good and to reject bad; yet in truth, be nothing but an awesome demonstration of the […]
Art as an expression for the search for truth
The moderns threw off representation saying if we’ll represent it is not just visual. Emotions and thought interpret what we see. Thus Surrealism, Expressionism. And vision itself is not a single plane of vision. Cubism, Impressionism. More than that, closer to reality we proclaim that painting is not a story, picturing something outside of itself, […]
Relection of the Higher Worlds
Every reflection, for instance the reflection in a mirror , impresses upon the viewer’s soul the existence of another world, of the spiritual worlds, which are the source of this world. Because the soul walks through this world and senses in everything that he encounters that everything contains a remez, an allusion to a higher […]
The Chandelier
מַעֲשֶׂה אֶחָד הָלַךְ מֵאָבִיו וְהָיָה בִּמְדִינוֹת אֲחֵרוֹת יָמִים רַבִּים אֵצֶל אֲחֵרִים וְלִזְמַן בָּא לְאָבִיו וְהִתְפָּאֵר בְּעַצְמוֹ שֶׁלָּמַד שָׁם אָמָּנוּת גָּדוֹל לַעֲשׂוֹת מְנוֹרָה הַתְּלוּיָה וְצִוָּה לְהִתְאַסֵּף כָּל בַּעֲלֵי אָמָּנֻיּוֹת הַזֶּה וְהוּא יַרְאֶה לָהֶם חָכְמָתוֹ בְּזֶה הָאָמָּנוּת וְכֵן עָשָׂה אָבִיו וְקִבֵּץ כָּל הַבַּעֲלֵי אָמָּנֻיּוֹת הַזּאת לִרְאוֹת גְּדֻלַּת הַבֵּן מַה שֶּׁפָּעַל בְּכָל הַיָּמִים הָאֵלּוּ שֶׁהָיָה בְּיַד אֲחֵרִים וְהַבֵּן […]
Art-making and Providence
Belief in self. In the process of artwork. That I can recognize the movements of my life. The experiences that I have passed. That is: creating, painting, I call up memories of these moments. Each one as it appears before me. (for each new change that occurs in the painting calls up a new memory. […]
Color and Spirituality
Do you consider color an important element in your work? Certainly. It is possible that color is my main vehicle of expression. Color is the language of the heart, and even much deeper than the heart. Strong color is what reaches into another’s being and asks him to connect. Also expression of all subtleties of […]
Meaning of my Artwork
Very cool. What is the meaning of the work? It is practically impossible to explain the meaning of the work in words. As far out as it may sound, I think the true meaning of the work is what it means to you. This has become my life’s work–to develop a visual language to express […]
The Jewish Painter and Avodah Zarah
A painter comes to realize that there is line and then shape. Line traces the train of thought. Shape is at first a thinking of line until it becomes so broad as to cause the line to be forgotten. For line has direction but when it becomes broad it can negate the original direction, even […]
Mesiras Nefesh
…middle of painting “Aitz Chaim”. It seems that the artwork has become like Torah. Like life as a Jew. Have to bring myself to point where I choose a form of Mesirat Nefesh. In the heart, in the consciousness, there is a comfortable path. A path where many travel. A path of thought which is […]