...From the beginning he was not satisfied with the accidental and transitory. His figure drawings present the perfect and the monumental. He always worked to the utmost of his capacity, which steadily developed, and he resisted the lure of fashionable movements in art and of superficial virtuosity.
There was in his painting that indivisibility of content and form which occurs when the subject is not merely an excuse, and the what and how are identical. His pictures were painted in a poetic spirit, and he himself always took the line of greatest resistance in art...
AVIGDOR STEMATSKY
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...I saw before me a young Israeli, who was not swept along in the current of "isms", and who confidently cut out his own path in art. I cannot forget the impression that he made on me, his honesty,the great seriousness of his work...
MARCEL JANCO
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There was in his painting that indivisibility of content and form which occurs when the subject is not merely an excuse, and the what and how are identical. His pictures were painted in a poetic spirit, and he himself always took the line of greatest resistance in art...
AVIGDOR STEMATSKY
MARCEL JANCO
