I was looking at Marc Chagall Oil Paintings and I was wondering what are the main themes that he is trying to portray? I know that he comes from a Jewish family in the times of the holocaust, but his art has something very happy and somewhat of a childish fantasy...
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2006-10-31 08:09:58 · 7 answers · asked by amitai 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
I love his work. Often the principal figure in his fantastical works is the painter himself, and memories of Jewish life and folklore in Belarus and themes from the Bible are main sources of imagery. The often whimsical figurative elements in his works are frequently depicted upside down and distributed on the canvas in an arbitrary fashion. He is quoted as saying
"When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art."
2006-10-31 08:21:02 · answer #1 · answered by Kristin Pregnant with #4 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Put very simply Chagall had three themes in his artwork all his life. The first was his nostalgia for his Russian village where he grew up. The second was Jewish religious themes. Last but not least Chagall painted LOVE.
2006-11-01 00:55:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed many Biblical themes reflecting his Jewish heritage. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall involved himself in large-scale projects involving public spaces and important civic and religious buildings. The Bible is often referred to as a source of hope, this may explain the "very happy and somewhat childish fantasy".
2006-10-31 08:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by nlcoolj313 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dreams, Jewish peasantry, love, family, Vitbesk, music, and village life, the relationships between people and animals.
He often tackles Christian themes: crucifixions and various old testiment stories.
There is a museum of his work in Nice. It reveals him to be a very limited artist: repetitious, a lazy draughtsman, sentimental and obvious to the point of producing kitsch, though colouristicall he can be very striking.
This is because he worked entirely from his memory; he really did not resond visually to the world at all, or to real events in the world.
2006-10-31 09:44:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
call it poetic expressionism
He seams to paint what he would or could imagine in a folksy Fairy tale like way and I would imagine that would be because of the life he lived. I assume painting was a way out of all the ww1 stuff.
He appears to be a dreamer and his paintings appear to have personal meaning. He also painted one called "above the town" I think he was very much in love with his wife.
2006-10-31 14:05:19 · answer #5 · answered by Paint N Paper 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The main theme in his works was to record fantasy, and for that he was regarded as a Fantasy artist belonging to the Fatasy Art movement, just like his fellow artists Henri Rousseau, Paul Klee, and Giorgio de Chirico.
2006-10-31 23:19:09 · answer #6 · answered by lebanese_gentleman2005 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
im studying art at school and my teacher told us that his paintings are of surrealism and symbolism. =]
2016-03-19 02:13:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋