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 ) : comermorates 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
• Title: Affiche d'Exposition (Profil bleu) (1967)Medium: Color Lithograph
on Arches PaperImage Size: 25 in x 18 3/4 in (63.5 cm x 47.6 cm)Sheet
Size: 30 in x 22 1/2 in (76.2 cm x 57.2 cm)Framed Size: 45 in x 38 in (114.3
cm x 96.5 cm)Signature: Hand signed by Marc Chagall in the lower right
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Title: The Flight (frontispiece to Chagall Gouaches 1957 - 1968), c.
1968Medium: Original Color Lithograph with Paper and Cloth CollageImage Size:
10 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in (27.31 cm x 22.23 cm)Framed Size: 33 1/2 in x 29 1/2 in (85.09
cm x 74.93 cm)Signature: This work is hand signed by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) In
Pencil In The Lower Right
• Moses from the Bible 1956
• Original colour lithograph size 35 x 26 cm