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Marc Chagall


 

Marc Chagall (July 7, 1887March 28, 1985) was a Jewish Belarusian painter. Among the celebrated painters of the 20th century, he is often associated with the Surrealist movement.

Often used symbols in Chagall's works of art

  • Cow: life par excellence: milk, meat, leather, horn, power.
  • Tree: another life symbol.
  • Cock: fertility, often painted together with lovers.
  • Bosom (often naked): eroticism and fertility of life (Chagall loved and respected women).
  • Fiddler: in Chagall's village Vitebsk the fiddler made music at crosspoints of life (birth, wedding, death).
  • Herring (often also painted as a flying fish): commemorates Chagall's father working in a fish factory
  • Pendulum Clock: time, and modest life (in the time of prosecution at the Loire River the pendulum seems being driven with force into the wooden box of the pendulum clack).
  • Candlestick: two candles symbolize the Shabbat or the Menora (candlestick with seven candles) or the Hanukkah-candlestick, and therefore the life of pious Jews (Chassidim).
  • Windows: Chagall's Love of Freedom.
  • 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: the Holocaust, Jews being persecuted by the Nazis.

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Introduction
Theiapolis People!
Biography
Art of Chagall
Often used symbols in Chagall's works of art
Chagall and his works today
Chagall quotes
List of well-known works
Books
External links
Goodies & Collectibles
Posters & Prints

 

 

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