Bill Rabinovitch Red Horse 90 X 72 acrylic on canvas — my 1977 Mideast Guernica My Red Horse was about the mideast crisis I did back in 1977 in my SoHo 74 Grand St Studio. Andy Warhol admired it & it became widely famous in my ground floor SoHo Gallery window a year & written about by Holland Cotter very positively at length. Of course a tip of the hat to Guernica, but Chagalized in opposition, not romantically but in a setting of violence, even primary religious icons in constellation near the horses head. America’s preeminent critic & art historian Donald Kuspits favorite. Even Leo Castelli America’s most famous art dealer himself acquired a print from me. Most called it America’s Guernica. I was then into the workings of the iChing evolving the composition. Predicts peace as the outcome although incredible violence erupts in the lower regions. The horse with swirling arrows even has a dynamite stick mounted on her side noted by one critic. It was set in President Jimmy Carter’s tenure who brokered the 1978 Camp David Peace Accords in response to mideast crises. Reproduced in several art books & art magazines for decades, & even in the 70’s full page in Art News. One Jewish University at the time was in total shock in coming to tell me. Recently Shared on Facebook 50 times after posting in 2012. I had hoped a Jewish museum also sympathetic to the Palestinians should such a place exist — would have embraced & acquired it toward creating understanding, but always met with disbelief. More about the iconography in the comments from linked 2012 FB thread. PS: Of course in the 70’s I was pro Israel— but now with Israel forgetting it’s higher ideals — itself unleashing unspeakable horrors using extremely dubious doublespeak, guilty in the eyes of millions around the world creating ongoing atrocities the past weeks beyond measure, leaving me shocked & stunned — I’ve therefore been creating new images on Facebook reflecting facets in newer ways, influenced now by Goya who feared to show nothing, hoping art still retains a vestige of it’s power to express something real. Nonetheless & despite all this — the painting stands & is available.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:23:24 +0000
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