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Flight into Egypt
Oscar Rabin
1976
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Oscar Rabin was a leader of the Lianozovo Group of underground artists near Moscow from the 1950s to the 1970s and one of the organizers of the “bulldozer exhibition” (1974), so called because it was bulldozed by the Soviet authorities. In 1978, Rabin was exiled from the Soviet Union and settled in Paris. His work was the subject of numerous exhibitions, including a show at the State Russian Museum after the fall of the Soviet Union (St. Petersburg, 1993).
In the 1960s, Oscar Rabin began to incorporate everyday objects, such as the newspaper seen here, into his paintings. He also added sand into his work, sometimes blending paint and sand together. This…
I just can’t. Should I? I feel like going in, but I just can’t; I remain stationary. The church door opens and closes, continually, and I open and close with it, split asunder. Warmth escapes from…
Dobrinsky was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Dobrinsky’s friend and fellow artist Léon Weissberg…