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Ink drawing on paper 28X36 cm  self portrait transforming to musical form in a precious moment,  imagination is the the most important organ of the soul. you need to keep it  trained and to use it in planing the future, making art and creating your own universe. it has endless posabilities, and open horizons never throught of before. keep it elastic and flexible as a muscle of God used to creat. 
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  In the last few weeks I listened to and saw a film about a generation of the great Jewish violinists that ended with the death of the last violanist Yehudi Menuhin. With his death, and after Oistrach, Stern, Heifetz and other prodigies who did not fulfill themselves for various reasons, the generation of great violinists ended. We have great violinists like Perlman and Mintz and many good ones but these were the first giants, the violin always attracted me thanks to its unique shape and elegance, the bow and how it is held by the violinist, the special sound and the expression of the soul. An ink drawing I recently made of one of these violinists בשבועות האחרונים הקשבתי וראיתי סרט על הדור של גדולי הכנרים היהודים שהסתיים עם מותו של האחרון, יהודי מנוחין. במותו, ביחד עם אויסטרך, שטרן,  חפץ וילדי פלא אחרים שלא הגשימו את עצמם מסיבות שונות, הסתיים דור הכנרים הגדולים. יש לנו כנרים מעולים כמו פרלמן ומינץ ורבים טובים אבל אלה היו הענקים הראשונים, הכינור תמיד משך אותי בזכות הצורה והאלג...