Spain on Feb. 14 opens one of the most extensive Marc Chagall exhibitions ever mounted, a feat that organizers say will not be repeated for many years. More than 150 works from 30 or so museums and private collections are on display from Feb. 14 to May 20, 2012.
QUESTIONS
1. What is Chagall considered to be?
2. What is required in order to interpret Chagall's work?
3. What did Chagall go through in his life?
4. What do Chagall's subjects share in his paintings?
5. What did Chagall want to tell through his paintings?
6. Where can you visit the exhibition?
7. What can also be admired at Caja Madrid?
8. When did he die?
LIFE
SYMBOLISM
Though Chagall would spend most of the 20th century outside Russia, in either France or the United States, his artistic inspirations were seated in his hometown and upbringing. The whimsical elements in his paintings are often tied to Hasidic lore, and much of his work is a response to the long-standing oppression of Russian Jews. As for Vitebsk, in 1944 Chagall addressed the town in the second person in an open letter, in which he pondered his motivations for leaving, and concluded that "I did not live with you, but I didn't have one single painting that didn't breathe with your spirit and reflection."
Though Chagall would spend most of the 20th century outside Russia, in either France or the United States, his artistic inspirations were seated in his hometown and upbringing. The whimsical elements in his paintings are often tied to Hasidic lore, and much of his work is a response to the long-standing oppression of Russian Jews. As for Vitebsk, in 1944 Chagall addressed the town in the second person in an open letter, in which he pondered his motivations for leaving, and concluded that "I did not live with you, but I didn't have one single painting that didn't breathe with your spirit and reflection."
- QUOTATIONS
- “All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
- “Great art picks up where nature ends.”
- “I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”
- “Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.”
- “My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.”
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