Transcript Marc Chagall 1887- 1985

Marc Chagall 1887- 1985
Marc Chagall
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I and the Village 1911 oil on canvas
Symbolism in Marc Chagall’s Paintings
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Cow : wonderful life : milk, meat, leather, horn , power
Tree: another fertility life symbol
Bosom ( often naked ): eroticism and fertility of life ( Chagall loved and respected
women)
Herring ( often also painted as flying fish ) : commermorates Chagall’s father working
in a fish factory
Pendulum clock : time , and modest life
Candlestick : two candles symbolize the Shabbat or the menorah ( candle stick with
seven candles ) or the Hanukkah- candle stick , and therefore the life of pious Jews
Windows : Chagall’s love of Freedom, and Paris through the window
Houses of Vitebsk ( often in paintings of his time in Paris ) feelings for his homeland
Scenes of the Circus : Harmony of man and animal which induces Creativity in Man
Crucifixion of Jesus: an unusual subject for a Jewish painter , and likely a response to
the rise of anti – Semitism in Germany in the late 1930’s
Horses: Freedom
The Eiffel Tower: Up in the sky , freedom