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MARC CHAGALL & MY POEM " MANIFESTOES "
PAINTING BY MARC CHAGALL (1889-1985)
" CALVARY "
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PAINTING BY MARC CHAGALL (1889-1985)
" DEDICATED TO MY FIANCE "
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PAINTING BY MARC CHAGALL (1889-1985)
"THE FIDDLER "
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PAINTING BY MARC CHAGALL (1889-1985) " THE POET "
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PAINTING BY MARC CHAGALL (1889-1985)
" THE FALLING ANGEL"
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MARC CHAGALL (1889-1985)
Born to a humble Jewish family in the ghetto of a large Belorussian town ,Vitebsk ... Chagall passed a childhood steeped
in Hasidic culture... Studied at a St Petersburg art school. Returning to Vitebsk, he became engaged to Bella Rosenfeld (whom
he married twelve years later)...
In 1910, with a living allowance provided by a St. Petersburg patron, Chagall went to Paris. After a year and a half in rooms
in Montparnasse, he moved into a studio on the edge of town in the ramshackle settlement for bohemian artists that was known
as La Ruche ("the Beehive"). He met the avant-garde poets Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as
a number of young painters destined to become famous: the Expressionist Chaim Soutine, the abstract colourist Robert Delaunay,
and the Cubists Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger, and André Lhote. In such company nearly every sort of pictorial
audacity was encouraged, and Chagall responded to the stimulus by rapidly developing the poetic and seemingly irrational tendencies
he had begun to display in Russia. At the same time, under the influence of the Impressionist, Postimpressionist, and Fauvist
pictures he saw in Paris museums and commercial galleries, he gave up the usually sombre palette he had employed at home.
... Breton, who admired the 'total lyric explosion' of his pre-war painting, tried to claim him for Surrealism but Chagall
only flirted with it briefly during his exile in New York (1941-48). His emblematic irrationality shook off all outside influences:
colour governed his compositions, calling up chimerical processions of memory where reality and the imaginary are woven into
a single legend, born in Vitebsk and dreamed in Paris. Back in France, Chagall discovered ceramics, sculpture and stained
glass...
Commissions poured in: for the Assy baptistery in 1957, the cathedrals of Metz (1960) and Rheims (1974), the Hebrew University
Medical Centre synagogue in Jerusalem (1960), the Paris Opéra (1963). The Musée Chagall in Nice dedicated to the 'Biblical
Message' set the seal on his fame in July 1973.
See MARK HARDENS ARTCHIVE
www.artchive.com
& www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/
& www.artelino.com/
as usual the website The Art Millennium is essential for further investigation
study perusing & amusing . At www. nelepets.com/art/
AND here is a little poem of my own:
Manifestoes
Broken dreams of Manifestoes
written in blood
bodies hung from lamp posts
a season of madness
a season of fantasy
Manifestoes for the masses
for the mass of racists
for the mass of idiots
for the mass of dumbfucks
Manifestoes for the few
for a corrupt elite
for the fatuous
pompous pretentious
facile materialist
and heady hedonist
Break Break away from the past
but it cannot be done you say
we are done for
we are done before we begin
the past is in our bones
the past flows through
the marrow of our bones -
the myths of the past
run through our veins
Break Break away
from the desire to be novel
Write Write a Manifesto
from the heart
unroll yellowed maps and charts
Note the ancient signposts
along the way
See them naked and stripped
the veil of mystery has fallen away
The hundred thousand Manifestoes of the past
is each a step along the way
to the last Manifesto
signed by a party of one -
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