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Houses in an Imaginary Landscape
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Samuel Bak’s paintings have been described as surrealist, but they also show the influence of Old Masters, such as Albrecht Dürer and Michelangelo. He himself has said, “I don't mind if people call my…

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Samuel Bak

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1970

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Painting, Aesthetics, Memory, Ecology, Surrealism

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Surrealist painting depicting atmospheric dreamscape of house facades on the left side, next to a large tree and moon-like object on ground in the middle of the painting.
Design for the Memory
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Abraham Rattner painted Design for the Memory in 1943 when the murder of Jews by the Nazis was underway in Europe. He chose Christian iconography, namely, the crucifixion of Jesus, to express his…

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Abraham Rattner

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1943

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Painting, Aesthetics, Christian-Jewish relations, Memory, Modernism

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Abstract painting of crucifix featuring four faces aligned to the vertical line of the cross: the devil at the bottom, then a skull, two human faces, and Jesus at the top, an angel to the left and human figures and structures around the cross.