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Works of Jesse Reichek (From 1946 to 2005)
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1947-1976       I Ching       Kabalah      Song of Songs      Myths     home
 

Ø      DATES   (355 works,  Oil, Gouache, and Ink on Canvas, masonite and paper)  1946 – 1964
title of the paintings are the dates of completion

Ø      ETC.     (327 works,  Acrylic on Canvas)  1964 – 1966
And so on, and so forth. . .

Ø      E.G.      (245 works,  Acrylic on Canvas)  1966 – 1976
For the sake of example…


October 25 1950

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Eight ETC.

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Iching
  1947-1976       I Ching       Kabalah      Song of Songs      Myths     home

Ø      I Ching   (64 works, 9'x6' Acrylic on Canvas)  1976 - 1979
Written before the Bible, the ancient Chinese I Ching is composed of sixty-four, six-line figures, or Gua, expressing the yin and yang of Chinese life experience over thousands of years. The text presents the potential of any life situation. The outcome of any life experience depends upon the action of the individual. Reichek expressed each Gua in one large painting 9'x6'. Each painting, with each Gua, is given meaning by the individual viewer.


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kabalah
  1947-1976       I Ching       Kabalah      Song of Songs      Myths     home

Ø      Kabalah    (300 works)  1980 - 1988
           Exegesis     (100 works, Acrylic on Canvas)
           One            (200 works, Acrylic and Ink on Rag Paper)
The Kabalah is the seminal work of Jewish mysticism in the form of an illumination of the Torah, or Jewish Religious Law. The Zohar, the Kabalist commentary from Spain, appeared in the 12th Century. The spiritual intricacies of the Kabalah inspired 300 paintings expressing the secrets of creation, life, the soul, the heavens, and divinity. The enigmatic images of Reichek’s paintings are to the Kabalah what the Kabalah is to the Torah.

Exegesis 41

sos
  1947-1976       I Ching       Kabalah      Song of Songs      Myths     home

Ø      Song of Songs       (116, one per line of the Song of Songs)  1988 - 1990
The Song of Songs is the last of the five books of the Old Testament, addressing different aspects of human character. The Song of Songs is acclaimed as one of the finest love poems ever created. A profoundly spiritual expression—Reichek created one painting for each line of the Song of Songs.


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myths
  1947-1976       I Ching       Kabalah      Song of Songs      Myths     home

Ø      The Myths  1990 --- 2005
For his last 15 years Reichek studied the world’s great myths of creation, mortality, immortality and death and  expressed them in nearly 700 paintings. Together these paintings offer a visual feast expressing the most sacred concerns of human development:  

Creation  1990 - 1994
     (Numbers 1-218)
Mortality and Immortality  1995 - 2000
    (Numbers 219-467 = 248 Works)
Death  2001 - 2005
   (Numbers 468-686 = 218 Works ) 

Story, 139

Ø      Miscellaneous:
Constructions and sculpture: Wood, Masonite, Cotton, steel and concrete -- 25 works

  1947-1976       I Ching       Kabalah      Song of Songs      Myths     home