Paintings are "Oil on canvas" or "Work on paper".

Moshe Rosenthalis was influenced in his youth by the social-realism of the post-World-War-I Soviet Union, then as a soldier in the Red Army during World War II, when he illustrated propaganda posters, and later as a student, by the prevailing teaching atmosphere at the Academy of Art in Vilna.

His immigration to Israel in 1958 brought about a dramatic change in his artistic perspective. The exposure to western and local painting, the colors, and especially the bright, dominant light of the country, freed him from the conventions of realism and inspired him to try his hand at abstract works. In the special colorfulness of his paintings, which focus on the landscape and on the human image, he succeeded in developing a free interplay between dark and bright shades and forms.

In the 1970s, having gained complete artistic freedom, he reintroduced the elements of drawing into his paintings.

Mosche Rosentalis was born in 1922 in Mariampol, Lithuania. He attended Hebrew School in Mariampol until 1940 when he left for Kaunas, Lithuania, to study for a year in the Art Academy.

He enlisted in the Lithuanian Unit of the Soviet Army and served from 1942 to 1945. Moshe Rosentalis became a member of the Lithuanian Arts Association in 1950. He earned his Masters degree in the Academy of Plastic Art in Vilna, Lithuania in 1974.