JUDAICA. Cont'd.
German Gold: The prophet of Judaic Colors.
"There was a world and that world was ruined" said Gold
The
portraits of German Gold are warm, sincere, and deeply emotional. To
reproduce the character of a person on linen is the most important and
difficult task for any master portraitist. And Gold does it at ease
with love and affection. Only the immensely gifted would be able to depict
ethnic facial expressions in a portrait that deals with the essence of a
quasi-tribal character and in the same time, for known and unknown
reasons, attempts to hide those expressions on the external
landscape of human suffering. Gold must have his own reasons.
Melancholic beauty and humanistic warmth...
His
analytical mind is a pure coincidence. Yet, The primordial
psychological characteristic features of Gold's portraits and landscape
serve us well as a profound analysis and sociological tale of
tender, sweet, affectionate Hebraic day-by day, and week-by-week moments in
the life of Jewish families, their rabbis and synagogues in the Ukraine. To
Gold, the
importance
of a person's inner existence within himself or herself and vis-a-vis a
harsh and unmerciful world is expressed in joyful sadness,
melancholic beauty, and humanistic warmth. His painting bleed. But in their
evocative tenderness and eloquent sorrow, an epic history of a great people
found its way to the revived memory of times and sweet-bitter moments of our
lives.
Gold
religious portraits reveal and hide such melodramatic expressions and
comprehension of a sorrowful surrounding.
"There was a world
and that world was ruined" said Gold who tries to recapture that
vanished time on his canvases through nostalgic colors freely expressed with
sensitive memories and a hope for a better world.
Written by Maximillien de Lafayette.
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