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Marc Chagall 1887- 1985. Marc Chagall. I and the Village 1911 oil on canvas. Symbolism in Marc Chagall’s Paintings. Cow : wonderful life : milk, meat, leather, horn , power Tree : another fertility life symbol
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Marc Chagall • I and the Village 1911 oil on canvas
Symbolism in Marc Chagall’s Paintings • Cow : wonderful life : milk, meat, leather, horn , power • Tree: another fertility life symbol • Bosom ( often naked ): eroticism and fertility of life ( Chagall loved and respected women) • Herring ( often also painted as flying fish ) : comermorates Chagall’s father working in a fish factory • Pendulum clock : time , and modest life • Candlestick : two candles symbolize the Shabbat or the menorah ( candle stick with seven candles ) or the Hanukkah- candle stick , and therefore the life of pious Jews • Windows : Chagall’s love of Freedom, and Paris through the window • 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: an unusual subject for a Jewish painter , and likely a response to the rise of anti – Semitism in Germany in the late 1930’s • Horses: Freedom • The Eiffel Tower: Up in the sky , freedom
Title: Affiche d'Exposition (Profil bleu) (1967)Medium: Color Lithograph on Arches PaperImage Size: 25 in x 18 3/4 in (63.5 cm x 47.6 cm)Sheet Size: 30 in x 22 1/2 in (76.2 cm x 57.2 cm)Framed Size: 45 in x 38 in (114.3 cm x 96.5 cm)Signature: Hand signed by Marc Chagall in the lower right margin
Title: The Flight (frontispiece to Chagall Gouaches 1957 - 1968), c. 1968Medium: Original Color Lithograph with Paper and Cloth CollageImage Size: 10 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in (27.31 cm x 22.23 cm)Framed Size: 33 1/2 in x 29 1/2 in (85.09 cm x 74.93 cm)Signature: This work is hand signed by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) In Pencil In The Lower Right
Moses from the Bible 1956 • Original colour lithograph size 35 x 26 cm