Cover Artist Robert Dov Tennenbaum
All of Robert Dov Tennenbaum's Jewish theme work comes from the imagination inspired by readings about Jewish symbols, festivals, traditions and bible stories with a sketch book always at hand to record an idea. These readings are reinforced by this "image bank" of archaic, traditional, folk and modern Jewish art ranging from archaeological findings to Hebrew illuminated manuscripts to Chagall. This is the second of his pieces to be chosen by Cantor Childs and Bob Remstein as cover art for their recordings (also see “Cycles and Symbols”).
His career as an architect requires a deliberate rational technical approach. However, as an artist he is free to be expressionistic and primitive, representational or abstract or a combination depending on what is the best way to express the meaning behind the idea.
Robert Dov Tennenbaum paints in mainly watercolor because of the flexibility it allows him to express an idea. It allows spontaneity and immediacy so he may work quickly with smooth free flowing brush movements. It also allows a more careful rendering of controlled details. With watercolor he can let colors flow and overlap to create bright and transparent colors or opaque deeper colors.
Available works include Israel themes, Garden of Eden themes, torah and holiday themes, townscapes of Israel and Paris, and Jewish life cycle events. Click here to view all his work.