Marc Chagall: The Poetic “Folk” Artist
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 11:24AM 
Marc Chagall, I and the Village. 1911. Oil on canvas. 191 x 150.5 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA.
Marc Chagall, The Green Violinist. 1923/24. Oil on canvas. 198 x 108.6 cm. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA (click photo for larger image)Russian-Jewish born French artist, Marc Chagall (1887-1985), developed emotional and surreal works of art, well before Surrealism, as a movement, emerged. Although Chagall’s work reveals an awareness of early modern movements--his style also embodies the Russian folk art tradition, references to his Jewish heritage, and the artist’s own particular take on the world. Chagall’s reperatory of images was broad in subject and scope--and his works are among the first expressions of psychic reality that emerged in the Modern era. Although some scholars find his artistic production to have uneven moments in it--Chagall is also highly regarded for the greater part of his oeuvre. His work is simultaneously moving and delightful.
Marc Chagall. The Watering Trough. 1925. Oil on canvas. 99.5 x 88.5 cm. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA (click photo for larger image)
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Just wonderful. I can hardly wait til Fall Classes begin.