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Youthful Caprice
Muvészi Munka​

 

Glorious opalescent colours and bold tactual strokes are strong signatures of Alex Mendelssohn's abstract art. They seem to glow and take on a life of their own when displayed under the incandescent light for jewellery, very much like opal. Some of his best work radiates a darkly exuberance that is oddly youthful in its caprice. ​
 

His beloved themes of the eastern exotic, feminine form, clowns and musical instruments, spirit worlds, outer space, landscape, and cityscape yield to the recurrent paintings of semi-abstract flowers in wild abandon. Journalist Alexandra Nowak (2008) described Alex Mendelssohn's art as spontaneous and wildly wonderful.

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Alex Mendelssohn, thrice married, exalted in the feminine form: "I think God's creation of Woman is the climax of divine creativity." Regarding his fast painting techniques, in an interview with Jason Munn of The Monitor (August 2012) Alex Mendelssohn said: "I always tell my classes, you can use anything but the kitchen sink."

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