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Moshe Mokady, Israeli Art

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Moshe Mokady, Israeli Art
Moshe Mokady, Israeli Art, 1902 - 1975, Untitled,1961, Oil on canvas, 80x99cm, Signed and dated., , Moshe Mokady Selected Works, 1923-1973, Gordon Gallery, February-March 2010,p. 49, illustrated,, , The signs of Mokady's love of music and of his musical education are discernible in the color orchestration of his works from all the periods of his oeuvre, as well as in his recurrent use of a monochromatic tonality. To an equal extent, his remarks about the work of painting as a practice of abstraction reflects insights that had derived from music, from its existence as a system of abstract signs that arouse specific emotions and sensations in those who listen to it. For the mature Mokady identified the essence of painting with a concern with the structure of the work and with the application of color, i.e., with a concern with abstract elements, which – rather than the image, as he had thought earlier – he saw as the fundamental tool for expression. The essential and important place of musical orchestrations and developments in his works became clearer concurrently with his gradual shift away from depiction. Irit Hadar, Moshe Mokady: "The Life and Creation" , eds. Yona Fisher and Irit Hadar, Moshe Mokady Foundation and Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, 1999, p.121.,