This gorgeous 30 color Lithograph by Jewish artist, Michoel Muchnik is part of his new Mixed Media Lithograph collection. Each lithograph has handpainted accents on it which add color and depth to the artwork making it look very close to an original!

The word Mizrach (East) in Hebrew seems to be floating on a background of fruits representing the seven fruits of Israel. Scenes of Israel appear in each of the individual letters. Mizrach (East) is the direction Jews pray in making it appropriate to hang on the Eastern Wall of a traditional Jewish home.

ARTIST BI0GRAPHY: Today's renaissance of the traditional Jewish lifestyle has been accompanied by the blossoming of a multi-faceted Chasidic art movement. Michoel Muchnik, among the foremost Chassidic artists, has gained prominence with his joyfully imaginative renderings in acrylics, watercolors, and original lithographs. He frequently combines his delicate use of color and fine line work into a story book motif. Even at its most mystical, a Muchnik painting is inexplicably familiar.

Muchnik has staged exhibits of his original paintings, bas-relief mosaics and lithographs throughout the world. His originals have been displayed at the Brooklyn Museum, the Goldman Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C., Yeshiva University Museum in New York, Dansforth Museum in Massachusetts, the Sydney Jewish Museum and the Sharei Tzedek Collection in Israel. He recently created "The TreasuredLand", a 6' x 24' sculptural mural depicting the Land of Israel for the Jewish Children's Museum in New York.

Muchnik was born in 1952 in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, and later studied at The Rabbinical College in Morristown, N.J., a Lubavitcher Yeshiva.

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