- TITLE: PUSHKA - TZEDAKAH BOX
- ARTIST: Michoel Muchnik
- SIGNATURE: Pencil Signed Lower Right
- MEDIUM: Limited Edition Lithograph
- EDITION: 300 + APs
- PAPER SIZE: 7" X 10"
- IMAGE SIZE: 5" X 8"
DESCRIPTION: What Jewish home today doesn't have a Pushka? Of course in some homes it is called Tzedakah Box or Charity Box, but it is all the same thing. In some homes there are more than one into which pennies and larger coins are dropped for the needy or Torah institutions. This 20 color gold illuminated lithograph features a Pushka shaped as a house with a Mezuza on the doorpost of course! The chimney is an opening for the coins to be dropped into. Coins hover above the opening as if in the process of being dropped in. In the background there are other shapes of Pushkas.
This artwork has true Jewish meaning and values to it. After all it is a great Mitzvah to give Tzedakah (charity) and this concept is instilled into children at a very young age.
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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