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OSIP January 15th, 2020 has marked one of the most special commemoration dates in this year’s cultural calendar, the 130th birth anniversary of Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet of Jewish origin, vulnerable and hunted man who has created a cosmic, unparalleled quality of poetry that has become a distinctive mark of literature of the XX century in general.  This anniversary could well be his 300th or 30th one. He is from the category of eternal lights, and there are so very few of them. Michael Rogatchi (C). OSIP. Portrait of Osip Mandelstam. Oil on canvas. 70 x 50 cm. 1993. The Rogatchi Art co...

Artistic View: The Ancestors Family series Michael Rogatchi Contemporary Biblical Art  As central as the Jacob family is in Jewish spiritual life and narrative, as it is in Michael Rogatchi’s series of his contemporary Biblical art works known as Forefathers project. In the case of Jacob and his family, the artist sees it in two ways: as continuation of the line of the Patriarchs, of which Jacob was the last one; and as of fundamental beginning of the Jewish nation. “ We all are children of Jacob”, – Michael says often.  What is interesting is that Michael’s paintings on the Ja...