Max Ginsburg and his work , unemployed on line, the making of a multifigure

Painting. the Artists Megazine 2013(Oct.) pp.34-41.


  Ginsburg is a classically trained second generation artist of figurative oil painting. The unemployed on line, a 40 x80 inches oil painting was dealing with the reality issue of social justice, the conflict between the rich and the poor,and the common denominator of the people in. Line,the silent suffering of the young and able jobless adults.                                                                     The style was in the tradition of Rembrandt, Goya, and many others.  The line was placed diagonally and the color was overall subdued, somber, and  inducing melancholy. It  took one whole year to finish.The technique was superb and each figure taken out would make a very nice portrait. however, they are interconnected as a group. One woman was listening with a head phone, a man was talking with a cell phone, others were looking  at the police and the German Shepard, the symbol of oppression.  The painting recalls some classical paintings such as Georges Seurat's Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte  and Jacque Louis David's Coronation of  Napoleon I.
  Ginsburg gave us an update glimpse of the other side of American society of the people we   Have left behind.  Thank you for reading!   

Lawrence Chien   Painting I, Vogel.