Chagall

Art seems to me to be above all a state of the soul. The souls of everyone, of all bipeds at all points of the earth, are holy.

His philosophy was intuitive, his archetypal people and situations were inherent in his genetic memory and not acquired.

The extreme elongation of the figures, the rejection of perspective, the plasticity of the interior space, the frontality we often see in his works, the occasional use of red backgrounds as in icons from the Novgorod school, are recognizable objective elements of Chagall’s representative system.

The first critics, writing about Chagall in the 1920s, correctly noted that Paris gave his painting its own particular nuance, a fragile nervousness and certainty of line, which now began to firmly and precisely resonate the colour, and in many ways to govern it.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of the soul. The souls of everyone, of all bipeds at all points of the earth, are holy.

Chagall was not one of those artists whose work had an intellectual basis, a need to pose and solve - if by purely aesthetic means - some theoretical problem.

A true creator, Chagall borrowed from Cubism only that which served his personal vision.

here we see the painful sadness of the serene smile, the golden-pink brushstrokes in the background, and the suppressed sense of celebration which there always is in life, if you are only able to find it