THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, September 12, 1958-58
Sol By ROBERT
Node!,
Illuminating Artist, Successful in His Anachronistic Work
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studio on 72nd Street in the
heart of that most materialistic
Anyone who associates true of urban centers, Manhattan.
Sol Nodel himself is about as
artistic creativity with a gar-
ret in Paris inhabited by a surly far from such a stereotype of
and undernourished eccentric the artist as could be imagined.
would almost certainly overlook Well-tailored and affable, he is
Sol Nodel in his business-like much faster with a quip or a
reasonably fragrant joke than
(Copyright 1.958
Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
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with momentous pronounce-
ments on art. He exhibits about
as much moody artistic temper-
ment as a bookkeeper.
A casual glance at the work
done in his studio might lead
to a classification of the resi-
dent as simply another com-
mercial artist perhaps an un
commonly able one, capable for
instance of producing brochures
for corporations certain
to be appreciated by the at
directors o f
Madison Ave-
nue. Further
inquiry would
reveal that his
principal ac-
tivity and
source of in-
come is the
preparation of
scrolls, those
astonish -
ingly popular
testimon-
Nodel ials for the
living. Few indeed are the dig-
nitaries honored by Jewish or-
ganizations who have not re
ceived one of Sol Nodel's beau-
tiful scrolls.
The fact is that this 46-year-
old son of a rabbi is considered
by authorities on illuminated
manuscripts to be the greatest
living illuminator in the United
States and possibly in the world.
Illumination is an art form
which goes back to the period
long before the invention of
movable type. The artists of
the pre-Renaissance period who
used the method recorded the
ideas, history and faith of their
times in hand-lettered texts em-
bellished with intricate designs
and tiny illustrations done in
brilliant colors and ornamented
with gold and silver — hence
the name of the art.
During the past four cen-
turies, illumination became
largely a lost art. Few men have
had the desire, talent, and extra-
ordinary patience to work with
this technique. Nodel is one.
After years of experimentation
and research, Nodel succeeded
in duplicating the , illuminating
techniques of the monks of
medieval times ; including the
use of the quill pen, the method
of applying gold, the treatment
of parchment and the use of
inks and pigment. This was the
only way to become an illum-
inator because there are no
art schools for this craft in the
United States.
Nodel's h o b b 37 is portrait
painting on a large canvas. His
portrait of his father-in-law
hangs in Jerusalem. He has also
done Judge Philip Simon, the
late Chaim Nachman Blank,
conductor Laszlo Halasz and
many others in oil. He also plays
the violin, designs and refin-
ishes furniture, paints murals
in his home and decorates his
wife Shulamith's handsome
cakes.
Inanother respect, Nodel is
definitely not the impractical,
other-world type which is also
part of the popular stereotype of
the artist. He is a shrewd stu-
dent of the workaday world and
his wife's role as unofficial busi-
ness manager of No del the
Artist is by no means a case of
providing Sol with a service he
is incapable of providing for
himself; rather it is a case of
freeing him to devote his time
to creative effort.
This is probably the principle
reason why Nodel has been able,
at an comparatively early age
for an artist, to achieve inter-
national eminence in a rather
exotic f ield— illumination —
while still collecting enough
commissions so that the prob
lem of the penniless artist is
not his problem.
But there is enough of the
true artistic spirit in Sol Nodel
so that he yearns to do one
great work which could not be
undertaken without seriously
interrupting the indispensable
routine of making a living. He
has, among other projects, long
dreamed of undertaking a com-
plete illumination of the entire
Psalms. This would necessitate
research in Europe and then set-
tlement in Israel where the
actual illuminating would be
done at the site of the sources
of the Psalmists.
If Sol Nodel suffers at all as
the unfulfilled artist is his stu-
dio on 42nd Street, it is because
of the possibilities of achieving
these life-long dreams of neces-
sity be kept in abeyance under
the pressure of studio commit-
ments.
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