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Edwin Salomon’s ‘Like Animals’ Existential Art: A Retrospective in honor of his 10th Yahrzeit

JL;DR SUMMARY Edwin Salomon, a Jewish Israeli painter born in Romania, is remembered in a retrospective marking the 10th anniversary of his passing. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustIsraeli ArtSurrealismJewish PsycheExpressionismExistential ThemesEdwin SalomonAnimal ImageryCommunist RomaniaArtistic Critique

Places mentioned

Holon, Central District, Israel
"eventually settling in Holon, Israel"
Ocna Mureş, Alba, Romania
"Salomon was born on February 3rd, 1935 in Ocna Mure, a small town in Transylvania"
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
"studying at the Institute for Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca (today the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca)"
Bucharest, Romania
"the Iron Guard uprising in Bucharest"
Ashkelon, Southern District, Israel
"immigrate to Israel, arriving at a Jewish immigrant absorption center in Ashkelon"

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