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What are the main themes of Marc Chagall oil paintings?
I was looking at Marc Chagall Oil Paintings and I was wondering what are the main themes that he is trying to portray? I know that he comes from a Jewish family in the times of the holocaust, but his art has something very happy and somewhat of a childish fantasy…
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I love his work. Often the principal figure in his fantastical works is the painter himself, and memories of Jewish life and folklore in Belarus and themes from the Bible are main sources of imagery. The often whimsical figurative elements in his works are frequently depicted upside down and distributed on the canvas in an arbitrary fashion. He is quoted as saying
“When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it — a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand — as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it is bad art.”
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