Exhibition at the Albertina, Vienna, 28 September 2024 - 9 February 2025
The whimsical and poetic pictorial worlds of Marc Chagall (1887-1985), familiar as they are, continue to fascinate and present new enigmas. His work oscillates between the traditional and the avant-garde, in terms of both style and substance. Drawing on his experience of the evolution of twentieth-century art, from primitivism to cubism, fauvism and surrealism, Chagall created his own visual language, one of the hallmarks of which is the essential continuity inherent in his multifaceted artistic expression.
Through some one hundred works, this exhibition catalogue takes a fresh look at the most relevant aspects of Chagall's work and examines his main themes - love and romanticism, Jewish tradition and history, spirituality and everyday life based on memory and nostalgia. The book presents Chagall both as a storyteller with a fascinating gift for colour and line, and as a narrative artist who understood the power of symbolism.
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