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Marc Chagall 1887- 1985

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 1887- 1985

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  1. Marc Chagall 1887- 1985

  2. Marc Chagall • I and the Village 1911 oil on canvas

  3. 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 ) : commermorates 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

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