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"I am glad to welcome all of you here, on the opening of
my sixth autumn exhibition in the Hesed "Polina", the painter
said. "It is wonderful that the number of visitors is growing
every year. I see many familiar faces and I am happy to know that there
are still many people who I am going to meet".
 The
pictures' warmth inspired and united the guests. Schneiderman's admirers,
colleagues, friends, and the press came to the opening. About 80 people
visited the Hesed's hall during the first hour.
This time the painter presented 50 watercolors, including
landscapes, city landscapes, and still life.
 "Schneiderman
is true to himself!" the elderly members of the community were
saying smiling. In spite of the fashion, the painter remained faithful
to his first love - watercolor. He even called his first book of poetry
"Watercolor and Guitar".
 It
is significant that being an engineer by profession and painter by vocation,
he was one of the founders of an amateur painters' group "Samotsvet"
in Almaty. His activities attracted the attention of a national artist
Abram Cherkassky. It was he who helped Yuri Schneiderman to start his
creative activity in fine arts.
The next year is memorable for the artist. The 23 of February
is the day that 40 years ago his paintings were presented to people for
the first time. In 1964 his first small exhibition achieved an unexpected
success. Today Schneiderman has over six thousand pictures. Many of them
are presented in the famous museums and galleries in Kazakhstan, Russia,
Israel, Australia, China, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Turkey,
and the USA. And the last week the pictures filled a deserved place on
our web site.
Galina Goldberg
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