Many people say that my paintings are poetic, fantasy and wrong. In fact, on the contrary, my paintings are realistic. Character introduction
Mark Chagall (1887-1985) was born in Russia, and his early Jewish customs were the source of his deep-rooted imagination. Marc Chagall is a great man in the history of modern painting, a pastoralist who is free from all genres such as Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism.
His paintings present dreamy, symbolic techniques and colors. The term "surrealist" was created to describe his works. Chagall mainly depicts green cows and horses flying in the sky, lovers lying among lilac flowers, two faces facing left and right at the same time, heads standing upside down or flying away, and medieval sculptures.
family background
Mark Chagall was born in Vitebsk, a small city in northeastern Belarus. His father was an ordinary worker, and he wanted to train his son into a learned person. Therefore, Chagall had been studying Jewish scriptures in the Jewish School until he was 16 years old. But he has a special interest in painting since he was a child and has shown keen observation. According to Chagall's own book "My Painting Is My Memory", his mother did not approve of him becoming a painter but a store manager. In Wien's studio, the head of the studio accepted him out of irresponsibility. After studying for a few months, he found that his teacher was not as good as his painting, so he left his hometown to study in St. Petersburg. Later, he went to Paris and other places to observe and communicate with colleagues, and finally became a master of generation. His paintings mainly show the lives of Russian Jews, and he himself has always maintained close contact with Jewish culture and religion. He said: "If I were not a Jew, then I would never be a painter, I might become a completely different person from me today... My only requirement in life is not to try to get close to Rembrandt and Golay. Ding, Tintolik and other world art masters are trying to get close to the spirit of my parents and grandparents."
creative ideas
Chagall is famous for his dreamlike, peculiar images and brightly colored canvas oil paintings. Among his works are two large-scale oil paintings (1966) designed for the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Franz Meyer believes that the "new natural feeling" in the paintings from 1937-39 was the result of Chagall's increasing sense of security in personal affairs during that period. Chagall's works follow an eternal theme that can be applied to any era and any society, and this theme can remind people of the continuity of life itself. After Chagall returned to Russia, because there was no previous work for comparison to inspire inspiration and a higher level, he had to change his course again and specialize in portrait painting and life scene painting. Chagall's love for Bella has always been the inspiration for his paintings. In France, Chagall resumed the work of drawing illustrations for the Bible, which he had already started as early as 1931, this time in a new and relatively free style.
style characteristics
His style is both sophisticated and childish, and combines reality and dream into the composition of colors. Because his country requires a certain type of art, he was forced to travel far away, back and forth between the United States and France. Chagall is a prolific painter. His works include painting, mosaic painting, stage design, tapestry painting, etc. Many public buildings such as the Paris Opera House and the United Nations Headquarters in New York have his works. Chagall was a painter who pursued innocence and simplicity, from the Jewish residents of the Russian countryside to Paris.
Chagall He loved his wife Bella very much, even though Bella had left him in 1944, from the time he met her to his death, the heroine in his paintings was Bella. In the early works of
, the lower part of the picture is the house in his hometown of Vitebsk, and the upper part of the picture is the painter and his wife Bella hugging and flying.
A middle-aged painter, the protagonists in the painting are still him and the bride Bella, and the house in his hometown of Vitebsk is still at his feet. The picture at this time was more dreamy, with white flowers echoing the bride's skirt, and angels flying. As a Jew, Chagall seemed to have not noticed the war at this time. One year after the death of his wife Bella, Chagall, who suffered the pain of losing his wife, did not write for several months. When he picked up the paintbrush again, the most noticeable thing in the picture was still the bride Bella, holding the painter’s hand.When they walked, there was a house in Vitebsk behind. Someone was playing the cello and drumming to celebrate them. There are still sheep and roosters in the picture, and there are couples hugging on the backs of the roosters...
works three years before his death At this time, the painter was 95 years old, and Bella had left him for almost 40 years. But his hometown of Vitebsk is still in his paintings, and it is still Bella. The painter in the upper right corner was probably himself at the time. He turned his head and looked at the couple intently-wasn't he and Bella who talked and laughed on the streets of Vitebsk when he was young?
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