Love Songs

The Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino says: "Certainly, love is the longing for beauty". True beauty springs from the ideal, from that which is emancipated from all matter and exists as one with the Divine. It is by thinking, seeing and hearing that, while enveloped in our body, we can perceive and appreciate such beauty, made manifest through philosophy, art and music.

Every painting in the collection "Love Songs" attempts to portray the corresponding combination of ideas, music and visual art in its own unique way, much like every musical instrument in an orchestra is unique. Thus, each individual painting is a bearer of a different "tone", a different timbre – indeed, all the paintings together represent an orchestra, an orchestra of colours. At the same time, a connection between the past and the present is revealed through the use of abstract and realistic forms, showing that those perennial ideas revealed in the past continue to exist today, merely transformed and renewed. And from all the ideas revealed in the past, none is greater than the concept of Love, the sustenance of the human being, for to be human means to love. This is also what my paintings attempt to portray, this essential human experience, manifested each time differently in an artistic form. In this way, every painting becomes, in and by itself, a Love Song.

The music used in my paintings from this collection includes Prokofiev's piano sonatas 2, 7 and 8 ("The Alchemist"), Bloch's cello works ("Hebrew Meditations"), as well as the Renaissance composer Pierre de la Rue's Missa Alleluia ("Love Songs", from which the collection takes its name).

The Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino says: "Certainly, love is the longing for beauty". True beauty springs from the ideal, from that which is emancipated from all matter and exists as one with the Divine. It is by thinking, seeing and hearing that, while enveloped in our body, we can perceive and appreciate such beauty, made manifest through philosophy, art and music.

Every painting in the collection "Love Songs" attempts to portray the corresponding combination of ideas, music and visual art in its own unique way, much like every musical instrument in an orchestra is unique. Thus, each individual painting is a bearer of a different "tone", a different timbre – indeed, all the paintings together represent an orchestra, an orchestra of colours. At the same time, a connection between the past and the present is revealed through the use of abstract and realistic forms, showing that those perennial ideas ... read more