Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts

Monday, 8 November 2010

Love defies Death in Art: the paradigm of Marc Chagall

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"The Firebird" Marc Chagall 1949

Chagall's pure and unconditional love for his first wife, Bella Rosenfeld (who died suddenly in 1944) haunts his earlier and part of his later art. I love his extraordinary use of colour and the loss of gravity that prevails in his work. It is this dream-like quality of art that compensates for frustration in everyday life.